FAIRFIELD — Solano County Agricultural Commissioner Jim Allan is still waiting for spring to arrive. “This has been very unusual,” Allan said of a cool, wet May that delayed growth for many of the county’s crops — such as grapes — and threatened tomatoes and cherries. The gray cl0uds that rained Saturday afternoon on Fiesta [...]
Today Cordelia Rotary Club 7:15 a.m. Courtyard by Marriott, 1350 Holiday Lane. Info: Nancy Garver at 449-8299. Tappin’ to the Oldies 9-10 a.m. Make music with your feet and dance to songs from the 1920s-1960s. Gain flexibility, strength and coordination. Dress comfortably and be prepared to tap. Fairfield Senior Center, Multipurpose Room, 1200 Civic Center [...]
David Mamet, a novelist, screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, has come out of the closet as a conservative, and in his milieu of Hollywood’s unrelenting liberalism, this is so astonishing a development that both the Wall Street Journal and New York Times have interviewed him on the subject. My thanks go to both newspapers. To [...]
There’s so much going on it’s hard to keep up with it all. It’s “confusing.” The newspaper brought more bad news in good light. The story spun that an 8.8 percent to 9 percent unemployment increase is a good sign of recovery. Home values continue to slide in value but less than previously. More than [...]
‘It is nice to hear,” writes a reader of one of California’s largest newspapers, “that Arnold Schwarzenegger is sorry for his actions and takes full responsibility. But I just don’t quite understand what it means when a powerful person does wrong, tells the media that he takes full responsibility . . . and then the [...]
You know it’s near the end of the school year when many of the events you want to attend are scheduled at the same time or overlap. But when it comes to such events, and I have a choice to make, the student ones always get top billing on my calendar. Celebrations that bring students, parents, educators and [...]
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS Local governments already have a lot of taxing authority. They can levy sales taxes, parcel taxes, utility taxes, create assessment districts and charge business license fees, among others. There are also, of course, property taxes. It takes a two-thirds majority of local voters to originate or raise almost any of these [...]
Sierra Abdul, Taylor Adams, Iris Alfonso, Clarissa Aquino, Amanda Autry, Zachary Baker, Kristopher Benter, Caleb Breidenthal, Jennifer Bunting, Colby Campbell, Nyckette Canseco, Aaron Carrasco, Christina Centron, Erin Ceremony, Taylor Cherimisin, Jessica Chiang, Autumn Clarkson, Samantha Covington, Sabrina Cox, Tamara Cross, Tyler Crowell, Danielle Davis, Jonathan Deeming, Kenzi Ellis, Davis Evans, Lucas Fenimore, Sarah Foy, Remy [...]
FAIRFIELD — “X Men: First Class” leads this weekend’s box office openings. Rated PG-13, it centers on the early days of Professor X and Magneto. The pair was best buddies before they became archenemies. It stars James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon and January Jones. Opening in limited release are: The “Beautiful Boy,” rated R, tells the tale [...]
1:34 p.m. — Burglary, 500 block SCHOOL 7:04 p.m. — Vandalism, 900 block HARLEQUIN
4:27 a.m. — Hit-and-run, RAILROAD/E. TABOR 5:56 a.m. — Vandalism, 200 block BRIDGEWATER 10:39 a.m. — Vandalism, 600 block SCHOOL 4:53 p.m. — Domestic violence, 1400 block HUMPHREY 7:25 p.m. — Reckless driving, SUNSET/RAILROAD
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