(This post has been updated from the print edition.) The last day for candidates to declare their candidacies and submit nomination papers is Friday, but some fields are emerging in Benicia’s City Council and school board races. The Benicia City Council has two seats open in this year’s race, those belonging to councilmembers Mark Hughes […]
A Different Drummer: That was Zen, this is now
Bear with me. It’s been like a steamroller. What started as a mild curiosity has become my current life’s passion. Wood. I’m up to my ears in exploration. Backstory: The year I retired all my friends had the same question, “What are your plans?” My response was always the same, “I dunno.” Intentionally my plan […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: When Nothing Else Will Do
Not pizza pies or popcorn, pasta, grapes or ham and cheese Not shrimp or fish in chafing dish, or Yorkshire pudding please I’ll pass on ice-cream sundaes, I don’t need those sprouts and such Don’t make a hero sandwich, for my open hand to clutch Keep your warm plum pudding, Coney Dogs; leave me alone […]
Benicia man killed in Vallejo boat crash
(This post has been updated.) Richard Todd Denno of Benicia was killed in a boat crash off the coast of Vallejo last weekend. On the evening of Saturday, July 28, Denno and a driver were on a 24-foot outboard motor boat on the Carquinez Strait. After a dinner at The Front Room at the Wharf, […]
Tile artist returns with ‘New Work’ at Gallery 621
Daniel Hunter is back with a new exhibition at Gallery 621. Those who have frequented the gallery over the years might remember the El Sobrante artist’s showcase of toys encased in ceramic tiles in last year’s exhibit, “Tile Tales.” Hunter is creating art out of tiles again in his new show— “New Work,” which opens […]
Counseling Matters: Attend college OR learn a trade?? A false choice!
Love it or leave it! You’re either with me or a’gin me. Either we walk or take a taxi! Each of these examples is a blatant fallacy: what critical skills people and rhetoricians label “a classic false-choice” proposition. (Want more? Listen to politicians of all stripes talking in front of crowds….). Another instance of a […]
Flashback Friday: Herald headlines for the week of Aug. 5, 1943, 1968 and 1993
Compiled by Nick Sestanovich 75 years ago “Do We Have What It Takes” Is Subject Of Rilea W. Doe, Vice President Safeway Stores For August 10 Meeting Of Kiwanis Club (Aug. 5, 1943) Rilea W. Doe, vice president of Safeway Stores, Incorporated Oakland, California, will speak before the Benicia Kiwanis Club on August 10, it […]
Voice of the Village: My friend has Alzheimer’s
By Lois Requist People sometimes say things like, “Growing old isn’t for sissies,” or “It’s all downhill from here,” or some other such remarks, none of which I agree with, but, as we’ve talked about here before, our culture tends to glorify the young, the perfect, while not speaking highly of its elders. People say […]
The A Cappella Handyman: My Logo
My Logo When the suburbanites moved into Walnut Creek and its walnut orchards in the 1950s, the once dry orchards with seasonal irrigation now became very well-watered lawns.The water table changed substantially and the walnut trees developed Crown Rot and died. One of my jobs as a teenager was to dig up and remove the […]
County to abate mosquitoes near State Recreation Area on Monday
Staff Report The Solano County Mosquito Abatement District (Solmad) will be working to thin the mosquito population near Benicia State Recreation Area on Monday, the city announced. Between 6 and 7:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6, Solmad officials will be doing an area application of larvicide by helicopter on the south side of Interstate 780 […]