Rep. Mike Thompson led his constituents on a bike ride Sunday from the corner of First and B streets to the Benicia State recreation Area and back. Participants had the opportunity to donate to Benicia Unified School District’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) program. (All photos are by George Johnston)
Benicia High Schoolers honored as Solano student leaders by Rep. Thompson
Staff Report Four students were recognized by Rep. Mike Thompson for the 2018 Student Leaders of the Year in Solano County, including two from Benicia High School. The students were nominated and selected based on their academic achievements, student leadership, community engagement and contributions to Solano County. Benicia High senior Carson Rendell was honored for […]
Letters: Regional Measure 3 and ‘vagrancy’ signs
No on Regional Measure 3 I have been interested in and followed regional transportation issues since I was first elected to the Benicia City Council in 1992. During my tenure as a council member and as mayor, I also served as our city’s representative on the Solano Transportation Authority and also as chairman of the […]
BUSD, BTA reach tentative agreement
Staff Report Following fact-finding proceedings that began Thursday evening and spilled into the early morning hours Friday, the Benicia Unified School District announced on its website that it had reached a mediated, tentative agreement with the Benicia Teachers Association. In early 2018, BUSD and BTA held a series of meetings to discuss salaries for the […]
Letter: Making our city safer
Making our city safer Valero needs to be a better neighbor. This would include opening the lines of communication with the surrounding community and the officials of the City of Benicia. As Andres Soto wrote in a recent letter to the editor, it’s been over a year since Valero’s massive month long flaring debacle of […]
Voice of the Village: The complexities of changing a lightbulb
By Judie Donaldson Are you among the many who suffer from the “I-can–do –it–myself” disease? I am, and I am so ridiculously tenacious about it that I make a fool out of myself. Just ask my friends and family members. Carquinez Village has learned all about this behavior pattern during our first year of service. […]
Throwback Thursday: Herald headlines from the week of May 20, 1943, 1968 and 1993
Compiled by Nick Sestanovich 75 years ago Benicia To Have New Telephone System (May 20, 1943) The best news of the week comes from the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in an announcement that Benicia is to have better telephone service. The announcement follows: Replacement of the present magneto type telephone system in Benicia with […]
Gretchen Burgess: Why do we argue? (Law Day honorable mention)
By Gretchen Burgess Special to the Herald “NO, NO, Mama, Daddy, NOOOOO Fighting!” When I first looked down at my wondrous 3-year-old as he pushed his little body between his father and me as we were conducting, what was for him, a bit too heated an argument over some paltry domestic issue that neither of […]
Letters: Thompson’s voting record and Benicia Chamber Players
Dark money In today’s episode of Antiestablishmentariansm (yes, its a word, look it up) we’re going to talk a little bit about dark money. That’s a term that I think might have a few definitions. To me, that term refers to the money received by a politician, that influences that politician to vote against the […]
Maximillian Rex Heian Burgess-Shannon: Middle school kings and queens (Law Day honorable mention)
By Maximillian Rex Heian Burgess-Shannon Special to the Herald Some places have Kings and Queens, some have a Democratic Leader, some have Head Families and some have no government at all. But I’m here to tell about the government of Middle School. Well, not a government, more like the separate powers that run the place. […]