Special ed policy change up for approval By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor An early start to Thursday night’s meeting of the Benicia Unified School District’s Board of Trustees presages a light agenda and short meeting. Trustees will meet at 5 p.m. for closed session, with the open session following at 6 p.m. The reason? Trustees […]
Creative energy, evoked
Doug Simon is Plein Air Gallery featured artist of May By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor By day, Doug Simon is a physical and massage therapist with his own practice in Lafayette. But between working hours, his first love, and training, is in painting. “When I paint, it’s between working a regular job,” said Simon, this […]
Website, city tours on Tourism Committee slate
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor This week the Tourism Committee of the Economic Development Board goes digital.
This Week in Benicia History: 70 years ago: May 7, 1942
Transcribed by Keri Luiz Assistant Editor From the Desk of Publisher Arthur W. Gluckman Mother’s Day In the 28 years since its inception in 1914, Mother’s Day has grown into one of the most pleasant among national holidays of the holiday-loving American people. It has taken on the happy significance of a time for family […]
Special ed work program praised
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees on Thursday heard a presentation about a district program that connects special education students with local businesses — to the benefit, its coordinator said, of both. Marivic Magallanes explained how the state-funded WorkAbility program offers not only individual education plans to Benicia […]
Benicia artists to open studio doors
❒ Event gives residents ‘backstage pass’ to city’s painters, sculptors, more By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor More than 50 Benicia artists and artisans will open their doors this weekend and invite the public to see their workspaces, techniques and artwork as part of the annual Open Studios event, presented by Arts Benicia. “It’s a big […]
Trustees to get reports on safety, funding
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor “WorkAbility” will be the buzzword at Thursday’s meeting of the Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees. In a highlighted item on the agenda, the board will hear about the Benicia program from coordinator Marivic Magallanes. “WorkAbility is a federally funded program for middle and high school special education students […]
19th annual Benicia Classic Car Show to bring thousands to First Street Green
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor GOT CHROME? The 19th annual Benicia Classic Car Show, presented by the Benicia High School Panther Band, will draw hundreds of pre-1976 American-made cars and trucks — the pride of early Detroit — to downtown and the First Street Green on Sunday. The show that has become one of the […]
Inaugural Big Rib Cookoff pits 23 teams vs. each other in a meat melee
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Before anybody gets alarmed by the quantity of smoke coming from downtown on Sunday, here’s the news: Rookie’s Sports Bar & Grill is responsible. The bar won’t have set the city ablaze. But they will have set tongues a-wagging, so to speak, with a battery of burning grills. The First […]
‘Cal’ and back again
BHS teacher’s Bug to undergo re-transformation By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Last Sunday offered the perfect weather for a car show, much to the delight of the members of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Vintage Volkswagen Club of America, who staged their 28th annual spring meet in Kelley Park, San Jose. Among the many […]