Compiled by Keri Luiz Assistant Editor From the Desk of Publisher Arthur W. Gluckman George Washington History of national heroes tends to dramatize their achievements and gild their glories — and to slight the agonies and trials they knew. If Americans need inspiration from the lift of George Washington on his birthday in this fateful […]
From 30.6 to 0.4: Pink slip picture brightens
■ Public shows support for BHS Principal Gary Jensen; board to decide matter on March 1 By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor The Benicia Unified School District is proud that the budget won’t lead to significant layoffs this year. On Thursday parents, students and teachers packed the Board of Trustees meeting to urge that another layoff […]
Business plan gets OK, BID discussed
❒ Development plan changes approved by EDB, to go to Council By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor A 3.5-magnitude earthquake rocked the meeting of the Economic Development Board on Wednesday, but it didn’t stop the business at hand. The earthquake occurred during board comments following Acting Economic Development Manager Mario Giuliani’s report on an updated version […]
Backers of high school principal to pack session
❒ No budget-caused layoffs this year, supe says, but administrator’s future still unclear By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Turnout for the public comment section of the Benicia Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting is expected to be high Thursday amid plans by parents, staff and others to speak out in support of Benicia High […]
This Week in Benicia History: 70 years ago: Feb. 12, 1942
Compiled by Keri Luiz Assistant Editor From the Desk of Publisher Arthur W. Gluckman That fighting man, MacArthur He’s of the breed of John Paul Jones and Davy Crockett and Alvin York — that man MacArthur. So was his old man before him: Arthur MacArthur, who at 20 was getting cited for “gallant and meritorius […]
Benicia High School’s academic stars shine again
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Once again, the Benicia High School Academic Decathlon team has proven it’s among the best in the region. The team took third place overall and several students nabbed individual medals in the North Bay Regional competition last weekend at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield.
EDB to talk BID
■ Economic panel will review letter to merchants, preview March public meeting with consultant By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor A review of the most recent letter to merchants describing a proposed Business Improvement District and the assessments it might levy is on the agenda for the monthly meeting of the city Economic Development Board.
Panel hears BID, ‘art walk’ progress
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Top order of business Thursday at the meeting of the Economic Development Board’s Tourism Committee: a report on the status of a Business Improvement District. But before Acting Economic Development Manager Mario Giuliani could give that report, he acknowledged many of the early participants in the effort to launch a […]
Funny Guy
Comedian Andrew Norelli is back in ‘the 707’ By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Comedian Andrew Norelli, born in New York to New York parents, nonetheless is quite familiar with the Bay Area. Norelli’s parents moved to Danville when he was 2. And at one time he lived in Glen Cove, right down the road from […]
BID, art, contests on tourism panel slate
By Keri Luiz Assistant Editor Updates on the status of the Business Improvement District will be on the agenda for Thursday morning’s Tourism Committee meeting. “We sent out a letter (Monday),” Acting Economic Development Manager Mario Giuliani said, “where people for the first time got actual dollars and cents on some examples, on what your […]