FAIRFIELD — People will no doubt flock to Jefferson Street in downtown Fairfield when the farmers market makes its season debut Thursday — ready to spend and tantalizingly close to the downtown businesses. Wendy Diavatis-Lacy of Truffle Berries would like to attract some of these farmers market visitors to her store less than a block [...]
FAIRFIELD — Don’t believe everything you read. Especially when it comes to the baseball cap Steve Wallis wears that reads: “Don’t Ask Me, I’m Just the Bass Player.” Wallis is one-half of the duet called the Pine Dogz. The name comes from the fact that there is a lone pine tree where Wallis and his [...]
Sometimes, even smart people miss the obvious. When there is a murder, a good suspect is a someone who has killed before. If something disappears, consider a thief or magician (often the same person. I’ve never trusted magicians). If food is gone, consider the big guy. And if hundreds of people escape from a prison, [...]
VALLEJO — Jayden Babbel was beginning to find his comfort zone. After a brief scare from the cow at Loma Vista Farm, 18-month-old Jayden stood at the pig pen, saying, “oink, oink,” with his nose pressed to the wooden face. Two black pigs continued their business, one soaking up some morning sun, the other rolling [...]
FAIRFIELD — People can still buy tickets for the Solano Land Trust’s Farm Fresh Feast scheduled May 21 on Dixon Ridge Farms near Winters. The guest speaker is state Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross. The event includes wine tasting, a sit-down dinner, raffle, carriage rides and a tour of farmer Russ Lester’s [...]
FAIRFIELD — Dover Middle School is closed, but the name will live on in the Fairfield-Suisun School District. On Thursday night, the district’s governing board selected Dover Bridge to Success as the name for a new alternative education program for struggling eighth- and ninth-graders, slated to debut this fall on the same campus as Sem Yeto [...]
FAIRFIELD — Educators and their families turned out en masse to Thursday’s meeting of the Fairfield-Suisun School District governing board to honor the district’s Teachers of the Year. Crystal Middle School history teacher Melissa Apostolos was named the district’s Teacher of the Year at the standing room-only board meeting. “Melissa exemplifies the best in education,” [...]
Richard Scott Simons died April 2, 2011, in Cincinnati. Mr. Simons is survived by his loving and devoted mother and stepfather, Patti and Dick Strange of Vacaville; father, Richard Simons (Patricia) of North Carolina; and grandmother, Kathryn Donnelly of North Carolina. He is also survived by his beloved son, Joshua Richard Simons of Barberton, Ohio, [...]
Dec. 3, 1948 — April 26, 2011 John McBrearty, 62, of Napa and Arcata, Calif., passed away on April 26, 2011. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 3, 1948, to the late Michael and Mary McBrearty. He completed his undergraduate degree in sociology at Harvard and then pursued graduate studies at U.C. Berkeley. [...]
FAIRFIELD — A contract agreement that could save the Fairfield-Suisun School District nearly $2 million sailed through at a Thursday evening meeting of the district’s governing board. It was approved unanimously by the board without public comment or board discussion. The term “win-win” can sound trite, but it is the best way to describe the agreement, [...]
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