Volunteer groups requesting Easter donations
Hoppy Helpers is asking, well, for help. The local volunteer group is in need of completed baskets, empty baskets, plastic eggs, Easter grass, small toys, chocolate bunnies and stuffed animals, bubbles and candy for the children served by the Benicia Community Action Council, Child Haven, Vallejo Together and local shelters. Donations can be brought to […]
Priority-Based Budgeting presented to HPRC
For the past month, the city has been promoting Priority Based Budgeting (PBB), an economic approach centered around local governments reassessing their priorities to make long-term funding decisions and establish a results-driven budgeting process. The city partnered with ResourceX to assist with the process and created a Benicia Town Hall survey to solicit feedback from […]
Letter: Don’t raise rent rates
Don’t raise rent rates Because San Francisco has become a place where they have the highest rent in the country, many people are moving to other places. I see Solano County starting to raise apartment rates, trying to do what they do in San Francisco. There are so many people on fixed incomes that are […]
Celtic folk band returns to Benicia tomorrow
For almost 40 years, Modesto’s Golden Bough has played Irish-inspired music all across the world. On March 24, the band returns to the Benicia Historical Museum for a night of music and fun. Made up of band members Kathy Sierra, Margie Butler, Paul Espinoza Golden Bough has ventured to Benicia for nearly 20 straight years. […]
Benicia Forum on Nuclear Power: New nuclear posture, old justification
By Ryan Swan Special to the Herald The 2014 Ukraine crisis, the 2016 election meddling and the ongoing developments in Syria are all surface representations of a waxing tension with Russia, revitalized from its brief post-1991 latency. The recent imagery of Russian rockets allegedly impervious to anti-missile defense systems raining down on Florida, however, brings […]
Benicia ranked as one of 100 safest cities in California, per FBI crime report
Benicia is one of the 100 safest cities in California, according to a ranking by the National Council for Home Safety and Security. The Council, a national trade association made up of licensed alarm installers and contractors, released lists of the safest cities in each state through its website at Alarms.org. According to the authors […]
Northgate senior pastor to step down in June
After 28 years, Northgate Christian Fellowship founder and Senior Pastor Ken Jensen will be handing over his position to Executive Pastor Larry Davis. Nonetheless, Jensen will remain as teaching pastor on Sunday mornings. Jensen, who moved to Benicia in 1990 to start the church, said a number of factors influenced his decision. First was the […]
The A Cappella Handyman: The Poems of Benicia
This was supposed to be Part 2 of the column, “Pieces of Work” about my ever-evolving employment history, but that’s more of an odyssey than this writer wants to deal with right now, so my apologies for any angst I may have caused. I’d rather share a few recent pieces, scenes about town, much more […]
Letter: Come to the march
Come to the march I urge all residents– including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, students, senior citizens, and yes, gun owners, and anyone who believes too many children have been victimized and/or killed due to gun violence– to participate in the Benicia March For Our Lives on Saturday, March 24. Join us at 10 a.m. as […]