FAIRFIELD — Fairfield police have named Sara Chao as the Volunteers in Police Service volunteer of the month for July. Chao began her volunteer service with the Fairfield Police Department in March 2010. Her assignments during that time include working at the Fairfield Police Activities League’s Matt Garcia Youth Center and driving PAL members home. [...]
FAIRFIELD — The $500,000 facelift of Tabor Park is nearly complete. Closed since November, workers are putting the finishing touches on the park. All that’s left is one slab of concrete and about 30 feet of fencing, said Fred Beiner, manager of park planning. Residents can run through the fresh grass, eat at the new [...]
Cheers to Mark Lillis, executive director of The Leaven after-school mentoring program in Fairfield, for his selection by Mayor Harry Price as the city’s “Hometown Hero.” The designation afforded Lillis a flight Thursday with one of the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force’s flight demonstration team that’s here to herald this weekend’s Skies Over Solano Air [...]
SUISUN CITY — Local police departments are calling on residents to get out of their houses and meet their neighbors when National Night Out comes around again Tuesday. Fairfield, Vacaville and Suisun City will send out delegations of police, firefighters and city officials to dozens of Neighborhood Watch block parties that are planned for that [...]
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team will top off two days of military aircraft fly-bys, civilian aerial acts, static displays and live entertainment at the Skies Over Solano Air Power Expo at Travis. The gates to 2011′s air show open at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is [...]
FAIRFIELD — A major shift would occur in the state assembly locally based on final legislative maps released Friday by the state. Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada, D-Davis, currently represents a district that includes Benicia, Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City and spreads east through Davis to West Sacramento. The state redistricting commission’s final map removes Davis, Dixon and [...]
FAIRFIELD — One vote is all that separates Solano County from new supervisor district boundaries. The Board of Supervisors votes on the new lines Aug. 9. The outcome should come as no surprise. The board has already voted twice on the plan and the outcome was the same: 3-2 with Supervisors Barbara Kondylis and Linda [...]
VACAVILLE — A passer-by at the Vacaville Premium Outlets saw a man sitting in a car smoking marijuana Thursday evening. She called police after also seeing young children in the car with the man. Vacaville police stopped the car as it left the stores and immediately smelled marijuana coming from inside the vehicle, according to [...]
FAIRFIELD — Solano County District Attorney Donald A. du Bain said Friday his office will not be prosecuting — for now — the man who allegedly punched a Fairfield man who struck his head when he fell and died a short time later. Carson L. Bruce, 20, is scheduled to be in court Aug. 1 [...]
FAIRFIELD — Matthew J. Forcelli has been locked up at secured state mental hospitals since 1997. A jury rejected an effort this week by the District Attorney’s Office to keep Forcelli locked up longer and he is set to go free in September. Forcelli, 57, was living in a Fairfield halfway house in 1997 when [...]
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