Bear with me and I’ll share my tour of rare bare slab outlets in the Bay Area, and there abouts. Using a list I compiled from the internet and woodworking sites, I visited a few and on three occasions drove home with a slab or two in my truck. The Berkeley East Bay area is […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: My Cure
Imagine if you will this life, I live from day to day I write for me, I write for you, I write for love not pay No worries, it’s no cross to bear, it’s just the way I act Believe me when I tell you; I can’t stop and that’s a fact I guess when […]
CPUC will not punish PG&E for 2017 power outage at Valero
Despite conclusions by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that a failed Pacific Gas & Electric component was responsible for the power outage and flareup at the Valero Benicia Refinery last year, the regulatory agency will not penalize the electric company if it moves forward with corrective actions. In May 2017, a power outage occurred […]
Retired librarian becomes first candidate in school board race
The Benicia school board election is well underway. This year, three seats are up for grabs but of those three, only President Diane Ferrucci has made an attempt to run for re-election. This will essentially guarantee new faces on the board, and according to the Solano County Registrar of Voters’ website, at least four challengers […]
Financial workshop for millennials returns Wednesday
The older people get, the more dealing with money becomes a necessity. For the millennial generation who may have just graduated from college, started a new career or are planning to move out and get their homes in the future, they may have several financial questions they may hope to have answered. Thankfully for them, […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Mabel and Babe
Mabel and Babe In the late 1940s my maternal grandparents, Adolf and Karen Larsen bought a small dairy farm in Orland, Calif. Farr, Danish for Father, first worked his farmland chores with two plow horses, Mabel and Babe. My Dad later helped him acquire a John Deere system of farm equipment. Mabel was a friendly, […]
Flashback Friday: Herald headlines for the week of Aug. 12, 1943, 1978 and 1993 (WEB EXCLUSIVE)
Compiled by Nick Sestanovich 75 years ago Gen. Somervell Visits Benicia (Aug. 12, 1943) (Editor’s note: This article originally contained a pejorative term commonly used to describe Japanese and Japanese-Americans at the time. That term will not be reprinted here.) Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell, who heads the Army Service Forces, made a brief inspection […]
Voice of the Village: A day that changed my life
By Judie Donaldson I was deeply touched by Lois’s last column about losing a friend to Alzheimer’s disease. She shared her experiences and feelings with such tenderness. As I read, my eyes darted from one sentence to the next as I projected how I would feel if I had a similar experience with a good […]
2018 Benicia Film Festival returns Labor Day Weekend
Staff Report This Labor Day weekend, remind yourself that the best cinematic stories do not have to be told in more than 90 minutes with enormous budgets. The 5th annual Benicia International Film Festival returns with a wide variety of films from throughout the world that cover a range of topics and stories. […]
Peddlers’ Fair celebrates emerald anniversary Saturday
The second Saturday in August is creeping up fast, which in Benicia means it is time to put the peddle to the metal. It is the 2018 Peddlers’ Fair. This Saturday, more than 200 volunteers will join Benicia residents, businesses, vendors and visitors for the Peddlers’ Fair, which is celebrating its 55th anniversary […]