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 — Fairfield residential water rates will likely rise a few pennies a month and an automatic 4 percent annual water increase should soon be dead. The City Council signaled its intentions on both issues on Tuesday by a unanimous vote. It introduced an ordinance on this year’s water rate policies and will take a [...]
FAIRFIELD — Rep. John Garamendi will make several public appearances Wednesday in the greater Fairfield area. Garamendi, D-Fairfield, will spend the earlier part of the day inspecting the NextEra Wind Energy Farm, touring the Rockville Trail Estates with the Solano Land Trust, which is trying preserve that area as open space, and visiting the Mission Solano Homeless Shelter [...]
FAIRFIELD — A nonprofit group for youths is seeking community support to try to secure a storefront for a yogurt shop by the week’s end. The Youth Initiating Professional Preparedness in Employment Foundation has been working for several months to open a YIPPIE yogurt shop. The shop would provide job training for youths and a revenue [...]
FAIRFIELD — Fairfield’s latest water-rate proposal calls for hiking the average monthly residential bill by a few pennies a month. But the city isn’t supposed to make a dime from the increase. The Fairfield City Council will discuss the water rate proposal at 6 p.m. Tuesday. It meets in its chamber at 1000 Webster St. [...]
FAIRFIELD — President Barack Obama’s contraception mandate has everyone abuzz. The administration’s decision to guarantee employees of faith-based institutions free birth control has been a controversial and polarizing topic the past few weeks. The Republican Party and Catholic bishops have been largely against the requirement, saying it violates their First Amendment right to freedom of [...]
FAIRFIELD — Work being done on Highway 12 through Jameson Canyon Road has been put on hold during President’s Day weekend. Overnight closures will resume Tuesday at 11 p.m. Caltrans, the Solano Transportation Authority and the Napa County Transportation and Planning Agency completed tree-removal work for this week but will resume work next Tuesday, as [...]
FAIRFIELD — Fairfield’s biggest new park in three decades is rapidly taking shape along a hillside in the Cordelia Villages area. The 48-acre Cordelia Community Park near Gold Hill Road should open in a few months. It will give the south side of town a park on the scale of Allan Witt Park in central [...]
FAIRFIELD — Dogs could be the winners and geese the losers when it comes to using local parks. The City Council on Tuesday will consider changes to the city code that governs parks and open space. It meets at 6 p.m. in its chamber at 1000 Webster St. One proposed change would allow dogs to [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Youth Initiating Professional Preparedness in Employment Foundation is teaming up with Vallejo Cable Access Television to host its first “Live Channel 27 Telethon,” airing from 2 to 8 p.m. May 5. The goal of the telethon is to raise money to help bring the YIPPIE youth job training program to Vallejo and [...]
VACAVILLE — Eva Rutland, author and winner of the 2000 Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement, will speak at the Vacaville Public Library-Cultural Center Wednesday at 7 p.m. and the Fairfield Civic Center Library Thursday at 7 p.m. According to a press release, Rutland, 94, will discuss her experiences during the years before integration and [...]
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