The Benicia City Council will continue to tackle cannabis at its Tuesday meeting, this time focusing on areas outside the downtown. Following the passage of Proposition 64 in November 2016, communities have been working to come up with their own rules regarding cannabis. The issue has been hotly debated at 14 public meetings throughout the […]
BOTTG seeking auditions for spring play, ‘Coming Apart’
Benicia Old Town Theatre Group (BOTTG) is known for its madcap comedies, and another one is coming this spring: Fred Carmichael’s “Coming Apart: A Romantic Comedy in Two Acts.” Auditions will be held in January. The play is described as a romantic comedy, centered around married couple Colin and Frances Kittridge. Both are employed in […]
BUSD reopens graduation requirement discussion at community forum
Six months after Benicia Unified School District halted its proposed new high school graduation requirements, the discussion was reopened in a forum at Benicia High School on Tuesday night. The school board held a study session in January to discuss proposed new graduation requirements and went into further detail at its regular March 16 meeting.The […]
Letter: Fantastic Sams Giving Tree was a success
Fantastic Sams Giving Tree was a success Thanks in large part to the awesome publicity the Benicia Herald provided us—first with a front-page story and then through ongoing coverage in the Community Calendar—the 2017 Giving Tree at Fantastic Sams Cut & Color was a rousing success. This week, I delivered our treasure trove to the […]
The A Cappella Handyman: Our Favorites
Our Favorites Sitting at breakfast at First Street Cafe (440 First Street), this past Sunday, December 10, 2017, it’s time for a confessional: This is our favorite eating place in all of Benicia! Ever since they opened under owners, Mark and Terry Krull some nearly 22 years ago in 1996, wife Janice and I have […]
Menorah lighting returns to Benicia Library on Sunday
Last night marked the beginning of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. This Sunday, the Benicia-Solano Jewish Women’s Network will once again be welcoming people of all faiths to celebrate the tradition at the Benicia Public Library this Sunday for the Meghan Campbell Memorial Menorah Lighting. This year marks the 28th anniversary of the first […]
Benicia Letters Once More: The Blue Shirt
The following “letter” is part of the continuing series from the unpublished novel by James Garrett, “Benicia Letters Once More”. He does not plan to publish the book but instead is choosing to share the letters with the readers of the Benicia Herald. The letters continue the storyline of Garrett’s first novel “Benicia and Letters […]
First interim financial report up for school board review
The Governing Board of the Benicia Unified School District will hear a discussion and then vote on the district’s 2017-18 first interim financial report at Thursday’s school board meeting. The district provides the report using information from the budget adopted by the state in June along with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) as well […]
Photo: Unlikely holiday friends
Benicians band together to save owl
Who, who’s gonna rescue an owl? A group of citizens, police and wildlife experts that’s who._ Midday Monday, Dave Vallejos, the owner of Dave’s Barber Shop & Shaving Parlor on First Street, noticed an owl walking down the road The owl stopped and laid down near his shop. Vallejos became concerned and began figuring out […]