Animal youngsters again will be the focus of the annual Baby Animal Shower at the Suisun Marsh Natural History Association and Wildlife Center next month. Those attending the June 6 event will get a chance to meet the wildlife center’s educational animals, birds and mammals that have healed from injuries so severe they are unable […]
BSPA to mark 71st anniversary of Allied landing at Normandy
Benicia State Parks Association is continuing its commemorations of significant World War II events with an event that honors the 71st anniversary of the Normandy invasion, D-Day, which took place June 6, 1944. “This commemoration will take on the theme of a ‘Fireside Chat,’ similar to those held by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World […]
Memorial Day observations date to Reconstruction era
The United States was still healing from the war that had threatened to tear the country apart when the leader of a Union veterans organization decided the graves of the war dead should be decorated with flowers. According to information from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, who was in charge […]
DA to provide real estate fraud alerts
A program developed by the offices of the Solano County District Attorney and Assessor Recorder will alert homeowners to potentially fraudulent real estate activity related to their property, District Attorney Krisha A. Abrams has announced.
CSC may pay most of staffer’s contract
■ Panel offers to cover big portion of climate plan coordinator salary Benicia Community Sustainability Commission wants to keep Alex Porteshawver as the city’s contract Climate Action Plan coordinator for two more years. It initially backed that recommendation in March with an offer to pick up the tab for first year of the proposed contract […]
City Council OKs Mills Act changes, Taser purchase for PD
In a single vote Tuesday night, Benicia City Council amended its Mills Act program and bought its police force a new set of Tasers.
Crude-by-rail report delayed again
Long-awaited report pushed back to end of August by federal tank car rule Principal Planner Amy Million said Friday the city would need an additional two months to finish the environmental report on a proposed project that would allow Valero to bring crude oil by train car to its Benicia refinery. The Recirculated Draft Environmental […]
Benician celebrates 100th birthday
Veteran Andy Anderson, friends mark his centennial with Rancho Benicia party Andy Anderson celebrated his birthday early this week, surrounded by women who served him chocolate cake and orange juice. “I couldn’t ask for anything more — it’s like paradise!” Anderson said with delight. “It’s the first stop on the way to heaven!” But Anderson, […]
Gas tax shortfall hits city revenues
The City Council heard Tuesday about water conservation measures having a negative effect on the city budget. The panel also heard about a similar situation occurring in revenues that pay for road maintenance and repair. The Council was told that gas tax and other revenues earmarked for road maintenance and repair keep declining because motorists […]
Benicia set to honor America’s veterans, dead buried at Arsenal cemetery
■ City Memorial Day observance to mark end of World War II Memorial Day, a commemoration that dates to the end of the Civil War, will honor those who have died in combat in a ceremony at the Benicia Arsenal Post Cemetery on Monday. This year the event also will acknowledge the end of World […]