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Cat spay/neuter

Volunteers with the UC Davis veterinarian program prep cats for surgery at the Solano County Animal Shelter in Fairfield Sunday.  (Adam Smith-Daily Republic)

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All Souls Day Mass Wednesday in Benicia

BENICIA — An All Souls Day Mass is set for 11 a.m. Wednesday  at St. Dominic Cemetery, East Fifth Street and Hillcrest Avenue. For information, call 751-0527 or visit http://saintdominicsbenicia.org. Reach Amy Maginnis-Honey at 427-6957 or amaginnis@dailyrepublic.net.

1 Comment / October 30, 2011 | Posted in Church notes | Read More »

‘Field of Dreams’ property in eastern Iowa sold

This June 16, 1999, file photo shows eighth-graders from East Dubuque, Ill. playing baseball on the "Field of Dreams" movie site  in Dyersville, Iowa. The sprawling eastern Iowa cornfields made famous by the movie "Field of Dreams" are being sold to a company that will preserve the site's baseball legacy, the owners announced Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/The Des Moines Register/FILE)

DYERSVILLE, Iowa — The sprawling eastern Iowa cornfields made famous by the movie “Field of Dreams” are being sold to a company that will preserve the site’s baseball legacy, the owners announced Sunday. Don and Becky Lansing said they have accepted an offer from Mike and Denise Stillman and their company, Go the Distance Baseball [...]

No Comment / October 30, 2011 | Posted in Real Estate | Read More »

New Suisun City health club set to open

In-Shape Health Club general manager Paul Momsen, left, and membership manager Mark Hansen, right, will be opening their new fitness center in the old Albertson's building in Suisun City at the beginning of November. (Mike Greener/Daily Republic)

SUISUN CITY — In-Shape Health Clubs will open a club at the Sunset Shopping Center on Tuesday. The club takes over the building that formerly housed Albertsons market. It will be the company’s third club in central Solano County and 49th in California. “We are proud to be part of this exceptional community and look [...]

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Ruling finds liability for contractors using subs

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A ruling from the Tennessee Supreme Court has made it easier for homeowners to hold contractors responsible for shoddy work by subcontractors. The court has found that contractors have a duty to perform services in a “careful, skillful, diligent and workmanlike manner” that can’t be fully delegated to another contractor they hire. [...]

No Comment / October 30, 2011 | Posted in Real Estate | Read More »

Death triggers emotional co-ownership issues

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Q: My mother passed away in July. My father left the family and we haven’t heard from him in almost 20 years. With her passing she left us a house in Vacaville that’s fully paid for. In fact, it’s the home my brother and I were raised in. We are trying to figure out how to [...]

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Vacaville School Board candidate profile: Tracee Stacy

Tracee Stacy

Vacaville schools are coming off a year in which it closed one school and increased class sizes districtwide. Both have been prominent issues in a race that has three incumbents and four challengers running for four open seats. The incumbents are Larry Mazzuca, Michael Kitzes and Jay Yerkes. The challengers are Jerry Eaton, Greg Fletcher, [...]

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Vacaville School Board candidate profile: Larry Mazzuca

Larry Mazzuca

Vacaville schools are coming off a year in which it closed one school and increased class sizes districtwide. Both have been prominent issues in a race that has three incumbents and four challengers running for four open seats. The incumbents are Larry Mazzuca, Michael Kitzes and Jay Yerkes. The challengers are Jerry Eaton, Greg Fletcher, [...]

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Vacaville School Board candidate profile: Michael Kitzes

Michael Kitzes

Vacaville schools are coming off a year in which the district closed one school and increased class sizes districtwide. Both have been prominent issues in a race that has three incumbents and four challengers running for four open seats. The incumbents are Larry Mazzuca, Michael Kitzes and Jay Yerkes. The challengers are Jerry Eaton, Greg [...]

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Vacaville School Board candidate profile: Greg Fletcher

Vacaville schools are coming off a year in which it closed one school and increased class sizes districtwide. Both have been prominent issues in a race that has three incumbents and four challengers running for four open seats. The incumbents are Larry Mazzuca, Michael Kitzes and Jay Yerkes. The challengers are Jerry Eaton, Greg Fletcher, [...]

2 Comments / October 30, 2011 | Posted in Education | Read More »

Vacaville School Board candidate profile: Jay Yerkes

Jay Yerkes

Vacaville schools are coming off a year in which it closed one school and increased class sizes districtwide. Both have been prominent issues in a race that has three incumbents and four challengers running for four open seats. The incumbents are Larry Mazzuca, Michael Kitzes and Jay Yerkes. The challengers are Jerry Eaton, Greg Fletcher, [...]

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Vacaville School Board candidate profile: Sherie Mahlberg

Vacaville schools are coming off a year in which it closed one school and increased class sizes districtwide. Both have been prominent issues in a race that has three incumbents and four challengers running for four open seats. The incumbents are Larry Mazzuca, Michael Kitzes and Jay Yerkes. The challengers are Jerry Eaton, Greg Fletcher, [...]

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