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 — 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 [...]
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 [...]
VACAVILLE — Gilbert Rangel considers his art to be a bit like a reincarnation that starts as discarded bits of metal and plastic trash and, by his hands, becomes an abstract metal warrior, a wooden animal head or a plastic robotic figure. “It’s all found stuff, anything I find,” said the Vacaville man, who was born [...]
VACAVILLE — A motorcyclist died Friday night after crashing into the rear of a big-rig truck on Crocker Road in Vacaville at 7:45 p.m., according to a press release issued by the Vacaville Police Department. The man was identified as Vacaville resident William Brown, 55. Brown suffered severe head trauma and was taken by ambulance [...]
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 [...]
VACAVILLE — The Solano Wine & Food Jubilee will celebrate its 25th anniversary April 27. The event will again take place under a tent at the Nut Tree complex. The jubilee is the primary fundraising event for the programs at NorthBay Hospice & Bereavement. It has raised more than $2 million to help NorthBay provide [...]
VACAVILLE — The days are numbered for the clusters of temporary signs that are populating fences on city property around Vacaville’s intersections. City Council members agreed Tuesday with residents who contend the signs are unsightly and directed staff to enforce the city ordinance that bans the signs on city property and rights of ways next to [...]
VACAVILLE — The show will go on. The Vacaville City Council voiced its support Tuesday for allowing the Downtown Vacaville Business Improvement District to take over running this summer’s Creekwalk concert series after the city’s Community Services Department said it could no longer run it due to the loss of redevelopment funding and a shrinking staff. [...]
VACAVILLE — Temporary signs that have cropped up in growing numbers at Vacaville intersections, wired to fences in the city’s rights of way, have several residents demanding that the city take them down. “They are an ugly blight on our community as well as a safety hazard,” wrote Beth Sherman in an email to the [...]
VACAVILLE — Vacaville’s Community Services Department proposes to hand off the popular summertime Creekwalk concert series to the Downtown Vacaville Business Improvement District, now that the redevelopment agency money that funded it has dried up. Whether the City Council will agree with that idea will be determined Tuesday when council members discuss the future of [...]
VACAVILLE — When the Croatian sympathizers working for the Nazis demanded that Ruth Bloch’s father hand over his two children during World War II, he refused, saying they could take his business and home, but never his children. The Croats then suddenly released the family and put them on a fishing boat leaving the town. [...]
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