Truth is immortal Light dispels darkness Some call him Guru Nanak I call him a dreamer a rebel, a challenger but they get mad at me for doing the same. I’m baffled at people blind to their own hypocrisy. The “Go With The Flow” mentality, maddening insanity. And it seems to be never-ending! Covered heads […]
Poetry Corner: James Garrett “Thoughts on the Flag”
He stands a little taller at a parade. He knows the price that was paid. There is a walk, hesitant with age. To look at his face is to read a page. His head is uncovered, and his eyes see. His eyes are moist, the flag is the key. Some know what he feels, deep […]
School board OKs 18-19 budget
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District approved the budget for the 2018-19 school year at the final school board meeting of the 2017-18 year on Wednesday. Chief Business Official Tim Rahill noted there were no changes to the budget from the May 31 meeting when a public hearing was held. Rahill said […]
Fire Department distributes child ID kits to kindergarten families
No parent ever wants experience having a child go missing, but should that happen, the Benicia Fire Department has acquired a resource to assist in bringing lost children home safely. City firefighters have partnered with the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and California Fire Foundation as well as the Benicia Unified School District to distribute […]
Photo: Traffic box gets new design
Throwback Thursday:Herald headlines for the week of June 17, 1943, 1968 and 1993
Compiled by Nick Sestanovich 75 years ago After 50 Years Our Jail Is Renovated (June 17, 1943) Work of cleansing and renovating of the branch county jail in the Benicia City Hall as been completed under the direction of Supervisor Jack O’Grady and Sheriff Jack Thornton. For many years the Grand Juries have criticized the […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Three Song Concert
All three can be found on YouTube.com: The Box Top Shop I’m gonna open up a Box Top Shop, and sell to all my friends – Maybe hustle up the neighbors for their boxtops, sides, and ends. And if I ever make it to the City Council, I’ll have to sacrifice my seat, ’cause they […]
‘Rosie’ in audience at Betty Reid Soskin’s talk
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Among those in the audience Saturday for Betty Reid Soskin’s book reading and talk was Agnes Moore, who came to California from Arkansas and worked at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond during World War II as one of the female workers later called “Rosie the Riveters. But Agnes didn’t […]
Oldest park ranger, who influenced ‘Rosie’ museum, speaks in Martinez
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Although Betty Reid Soskin’s work in Richmond during World War II helped the Allied cause, she doesn’t consider herself a “Rosie,” even though other women who helped assemble Victory ships would welcome her into their fold. She secured no rivets. She welded no metal seams. She built no war […]
Tossed materials become art in Gallery 621 exhibit
Benicia artist Robert Nelson has a knack for turning trash into art— literally. The discarded items that line the shores of the Carquinez Strait often end up in the hands of Nelson, who takes littered materials like wooden objects and tin cans and uses them to create three-dimensional sculptures of rabbits, sharks and more. How […]