By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Solano County has endorsed the concept of declaring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and possibly some land beyond, as the first National Heritage Area to be established on the West Coast.

By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter Benicia’s California National Guard members are back home, after several weeks of training at Camp Roberts in Central California in preparation for deployment to Iraq some time during the upcoming Christmas-New Year holidays. For some of the members of the 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, this intense preparation is […]

By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter When Kimberly Powley was a little girl, she’d dance around the house to the music her mother would play. Her parents, Sam and Keith Powley, enrolled her in the usual children’s dance classes that introduced her to simple ballet and tap. Little did they realize at the time their […]

❒ As community rallies, city police issue unsafe driving citation to man By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter The Rellik Tavern has been the host of a regular downtown fashion show for the past six months. But this month’s show, scheduled for next Tuesday, will have a different twist, participants decided. Organizers of the show […]

‘You can gerrymander for politics, but you can’t gerrymander for friends,’ Eugene Ray says By Donna Beth Weilenman Staff Reporter A few weeks before Christmas 2009, Eugene Ray began getting a strong feeling that “God wanted me to run for office.” His response to the calling? “I said, ‘You got the wrong number.’” Ray, a […]