Men’s Health Month was celebrated across the country in June. And even though men’s health is something to be taken seriously every month, the goal of this initiative is to increase awareness of men’s health issues and to encourage men and boys to engage in healthy activities, such as early detection and screening of preventable [...]
Located in Davis, Explorit is a nonprofit hands-on science center for children and adults. Due to budget cuts, the museum is no longer open as a public venue but groups, particularly school groups, can continue to enjoy the wide range of onsite and offsite programs such as discovery lessons, inquiry labs and nature safaris. Traveling [...]
Fans of dogs, skateboards and BMX bikes have a home at Vallejo’s Wardlaw Park. The 17,000-foot skateboard/BMX facility boasts a hybrid design featuring a concrete bowl and modular equipment as well as areas for beginners and intermediate users. There’s also a 2.2-acre dog park, including areas for small, shy and older canines, as well as [...]
Famous author Robert Louis Stevenson spent his honeymoon in 1880 on the site of the state park which bears his name. The park includes a five-mile hike to the top of Mt. St. Helena, from which much of the Bay Area is visible, as well as Mt. Shasta — 192 miles away — on a [...]
Sonoma Helicopter, based out of Santa Rosa’s Charles M. Schultz-Solano County Airport, offers aerial tours of the wine country, including Sonoma, Napa, Marin and Mendocino counties. The company also specializes in flight instruction and aerial photography. Cost: Varies Location: 5970-6000 Flightline Dr., Santa Rosa Hours: Varies More information: (707) 528-4883 or http://www.sonomahelicopter.com
The di Rosa Preserve, located on more than 200 acres in the Napa Valley’s Carneros Region, offers a wide variety of Northern California art. The Gatehouse Gallery is open for drop-in visits, while the Main Gallery is available only through tours. Cost: Suggested donation of $5 Location: 5200 Sonoma Highway (Highway 12), Napa Hours: Wednesday [...]
FAIRFIELD — With the winning run at the plate, Nick Smart slammed the door shut. Smart struck out the two batters he faced in the bottom of the seventh inning record the save for the Fairfield Expos, earning them a 6-4 win over Bennett Valley in the first game of the Western Amateur Baseball Federation [...]
RIO VISTA — Revamping how the city’s budget is put together and transferring excess landfill funds could be the magic Rio Vista needed to balance its budget for the fiscal year 2011-12. Or to at least get the General Fund deficit out of the six-figure range. In calculating the upcoming budget, the General Fund deficit [...]
FAIRFIELD — John Bent wasn’t out of a football coaching job for long. Let go by Rodriguez High after just one season — and after leading the Mustangs to the 2010 Solano County Athletic Conference title and a berth in the Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs — Bent said he’s been hired as an assistant coach by [...]
You may be pleased to know that the flu season is over in the Northern Hemisphere, according to the World Health Organization. That means unless you’re spending time in certain tropical zones of Latin America or Africa, your odds of exposure to the bug are low until fall. And there’s more good news, perhaps, in [...]
Neal Adams changed how comic books were drawn in America. I remember the first time I saw his artwork. It was in the late 1960s, and I was familiar with the major artists at the bigger companies, the A-listers all the B-listers were copying. Jack Kirby was “The King,” and set the pace at Marvel [...]
FAIRFIELD — The 70-year-old longtime owner of Travis Dairy was robbed by three teenage boys, pepper sprayed, knocked to the ground and later died Tuesday night, police said. Ho J. Kim called 911 around 7:50 p.m. saying his East Travis Boulevard business had just been robbed and that he had been attacked and had hit [...]
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