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 [...]
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 [...]
DIXON — Lake County Fair chief executive Richard Persons will serve as interim chief executive officer of this year’s Dixon May Fair. Persons will be in Dixon two to three days a week to provide managerial leadership. He will oversee the May Fair’s entire four-day event, scheduled May 10-13. Then he will return full-time to his [...]
FAIRFIELD — Yul Jorgensen held the dried-out remains of a plant that’s on the Lynch Canyon Park unwelcome list: the bull thistle. Even this dead version of the plant had barbs, as the Rodriguez High School junior noted before putting it inside a cloth shopping bag. Bull thistles are hardly the worst offender among the [...]
FAIRFIELD — A trailer full of burning garbage corked eastbound Interstate 780 just in time for the morning commute Tuesday, blocking both lanes for an hour before Benicia firefighters, California Highway Patrol and Benicia police could clean up the scene, according to the CHP. The big rig was traveling east on I-780 when the trailer [...]
FAIRFIELD — The Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is hosting a Farm Bill listening session with Rep. George Miller at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Food Bank’s Concord warehouse, 4010 Nelson Ave. Miller, D-Martinez, will open the meeting with brief remarks on the status of the bill. Larry Sly, executive director at the Food [...]
FAIRFIELD — H&R Block offices in Solano County will have food barrels in their offices to collect food for the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano. “The Food Bank has seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us for food assistance over the last four years,” said Larry Sly, executive [...]
FAIRFIELD — When Mayrene and Jim Bates left for Cuba last week, wasn’t the ordinary pickpockets they needed to worry about, according to Cuba Cultural Travel. It’s the cars that can be perilous to Americans’ health. Travel to Cuba? For more information, go to: http://www.cubaculturaltravel.com http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/cuba.aspx http://www.commonwealthclub.org “The biggest threat to most tourists in Cuba [...]
FAIRFIELD — Local government offices will close Monday for either Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday, depending on what they choose to call the holiday. Local city halls — among them Fairfield, Suisun City, Vacaville and Rio Vista — will be closed. However, the cities will still provide fire and police services. Local post offices will [...]
VALLEJO — Another small earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay area Thursday morning, startling residents for a second day in a row. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude-3.5 temblor struck at 9:13 a.m., about two miles south of Vallejo. USGS initially measured it at magnitude-3.7, but later revised it. Vallejo Police Sgt. Jeff [...]
VALLEJO — An earthquake with a confirmed magnitude of 3.7 has rattled the East Bay city of Vallejo. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 6:09 p.m. Wednesday about three miles south of Vallejo, or about 23 miles northeast of San Francisco. A Vallejo police dispatcher said the quake was felt at the [...]
FAIRFIELD — An accident Wednesday morning on Highway 12 in Jameson Canyon led to one lane of traffic being blocked. An SUV and a Scion collided at about 8:40 a.m., California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Parker said. There were no serious injuries, only property damage, he said. He didn’t know details such as the cause of [...]
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