VACAVILLE — Ginger Rutland didn’t realize just how proud she was of her mother Eva until her father’s funeral. Reading a passage from her book “The Trouble with being a Mama,” her perception of her mother as an author changed. The book later changed its title to “When we were Colored: A Mother’s Memoir,” when [...]
VACAVILLE — A 32-year-old American Canyon man riding his bicycle in Vacaville early Tuesday was seriously hurt when he was struck by a car in the intersection of Peabody Road and California Drive. Vacaville police believe the bicyclist was crossing the intersection on a red light. The bicyclist, who was not wearing a helmet, suffered severe head [...]
FAIRFIELD — A toll booth operator at the Carquinez Bridge was robbed early Tuesday morning by a motorist stopped at the worker’s toll window. The robber got out of his vehicle, went up to the window and demanded money, according to a California Highway Patrol press release Wednesday. Money in hand, the man ran back [...]
FAIRFIELD — A head-on crash during the Wednesday afternoon rush hour commute on Highway 12 in the Jameson Canyon killed one person and seriously injured three other people. Three cars were involved in the 5:45 p.m. crash that left one car in a ditch and another car so seriously damaged that the car’s engine was [...]
ROCKVILLE — Rep. John Garamendi met incoming, current and departing Solano Community College students Wednesday to discuss federal financial aid. The students were at the college to register for federal financial aid. The congressman stopped by on a tour of his 10th Congressional District. Jowell Laguerre, superintendent/president of the college, introduced Garamendi to the unsuspecting room [...]
SUISUN CITY — A Hummingbird Way resident saw two teenage boys walk out the front door of a neighbor’s home at around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. One of the teens was toting a pillowcase or some bundled sheets. As the neighbor called police, the teens got into a gray Ford pickup truck and drove off. They [...]
FAIRFIELD — Potrero Hills Landfill can expand and build a composting facility under two permits issued recently, though a lawsuit over a previous permit looms. The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and Solano County each signed off on the permits over the past month. One allows for the dump south of Suisun City to [...]
VACAVILLE — Jennifer Goode, a two-term Vacaville community services commissioner, announced she is running for City Council. Goode, a longtime resident of Vacaville, served as a commissioner for the city since 2009 and is chairwoman for the city’s parks and facility naming committee. “Part of the reason why I’m getting involved is because I love [...]
FAIRFIELD — An oversight board with authority over land sales and other tasks needed to wind down Fairfield’s redevelopment agency is beginning to take shape. Among the issues at stake is how a variety of properties owned by the old redevelopment agency get sold. That land ranges from commercial land in Green Valley to a [...]
FAIRFIELD — Dogs will get their first city park off-leash areas and geese at city park ponds will get a reprieve — at least for now — from a plan to drive them away. Those were among the steps taken Tuesday by the City Council. It looked at proposals to update the city’s parks and [...]
FAIRFIELD — Nearly 70 students and teachers lined the sidewalk on Travis Boulevard in front of the Fairfield-Suisun Adult School Wednesday in a noontime protest over proposed cuts that would gut adult education offerings. “If we start with the parents, it trickles down to the next generation,” said teacher Betty Harrington. “If we don’t speak [...]
VACAVILLE — World War II Tuskegee Airman, retired Lt. Col. James Warren, will sign his book, “The Freeman Field Mutiny,” at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 29 at the Town Square Library in Vacaville. The event is sponsored by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Solano Valley Alumnae Chapter. Warren’s memoir is about the protest by Warren and 60 [...]
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