BENICIA – Benicia High School’s Friday Night Live (FNL) student club has been named as the recipient of the Tobacco Free Solano Coalition’s (TFS) annual Alvina Sheeley Memorial Advocate Award. The award was presented at the TFS Coalition’s annual luncheon meeting Jan. 22 by the Mayor of Benicia, Elizabeth Patterson. The student club along with […]
Gibson Publishing cartoonist leaves behind a legacy of free speech
Galen Kusic, Editor Robert Light, famed Delta cartoonist, passed away on Oct. 18 after a long bout with an illness at 58. Light worked at the River News-Herald and Isleton Journal, the sister paper of the Benicia Herald for 13 years under the Gibson Publishing umbrella until his death. Light went by the moniker, RWL, […]
Benicia Council passes smoking ordinance
Galen Kusic, Editor (This article was originally published in the Nov. 27 print edition of the Herald) At the April 16 Benicia City Council meeting, Council directed staff to amend the Benicia Municipal Code to include additional smoke-free protections in outdoor places and multi-unit housing and to develop a tobacco retailer license ordinance that would […]
City of Benicia honors Valero Refinery with 50th anniversary proclamation
Galen Kusic, Editor (This article was originally published in the Oct. 18 print edition of the Herald) At Tue. night’s council meeting, a Proclamation was made to the Benicia Valero Refinery from the City, Senator Bill Dodd and Assemblymember Tim Grayson’s offices celebrating 50 years. But what was undoubtedly the highlight of the night was […]
Multiple regional opportunities for Earth Day Cleanup events this weekend
Below are some of the region’s clean-up activities for Earth Day: Solano County Earth Day Cleanup: Benicia Be a part of the movement to “Keep Solano Clean & Green!” Location: Ninth Street Beach Time: Saturday, April 20 8 a.m. – 11 a.m. Contact: Carrie Chase Email: cchase@ci.benicia.ca.us www.ci.benicia.ca.us John Muir National Historic Site celebrates John […]
Families and community members gather to volunteer at Benicia State Recreation Area on Earth Day
California State Parks Foundation will celebrate Earth Day 2019 by hosting service projects to get local residents in touch with park needs, increase awareness of issues like climate change BENICIA — California State Parks Foundation and Benicia State Recreation Area team up to celebrate Earth Day by hosting service projects for local residents, families, […]
Thompson attends Benicia Town Hall at packed Senior Center
Galen Kusic, Editor Congressman Mike Thompson appeared at a Benicia Town Hall meeting held at the Benicia Senior Center on Monday, March 18. The event was privately sponsored by the Carquinez Patriotic Resistance, Progressive Democrats of Benicia and Indivisible Vallejo-Benicia. Thompson, the Chairman of the House Violence Prevention Task Force, fielded questions ranging from gun […]
$3 million settlement reached between community group and Valero Benicia Refinery
Settlement package includes multiple air monitoring and water management projects BENICIA – The Good Neighbor Steering Committee (GNSC), a well-known local environmental group, and the Valero Benicia Refinery have reached an agreement that requires Valero to spend up to three million dollars on air monitoring, water conservation, and other environmentally beneficial projects. Valero will fund […]
2,000 Solano County students become scientists through local environmental education programs
Programs give students and teachers hands-on experience understanding watershed health SOLANO COUNTY – This month the Solano Resource Conservation District (Solano RCD) continues engaging more than two-thousand Solano County youth in its Watershed Explorers, Biomonitoring, and School Water Education Programs. These programs will continue through May and include students from each of Solano County’s seven cities […]