School board will vote on resolution at Thursday’s meeting The school board will be voting to approve the submission of two applications requesting grant funding for renovation of Benicia High School’s Performing Arts Building (PAB) at its Thursday meeting. In May, an informational meeting was held at Benicia High to discuss two items. One was […]
Signups available for Thanksgiving Turkey Trot
Gobble, gobble and a little wobble. The Tim and Jeannie Hamann Foundation will host its first Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, Nov 23. The 5k race begins at 8 a.m and will not be timed. There will be prizes such as gift baskets and items provided by local businesses, and the event will be […]
Kathy Kerridge: Working toward a local safety ordinance to keep Benicians safe, informed
Benicia is the only city in Solano County that is home to a refinery – and the only Bay Area refinery city left unprotected by a local Industrial Safety Ordinance (ISO). Fortunately, the City of Benicia can learn from State and Contra Costa County expertise in order to develop and implement its own. The […]
Jim Lessenger: The continuing story of the Pine Lake Reservoir
The site of the former Pine Lake Reservoir, seen from the freeway to the right as one drives west on Highway 780, will remain as it is for the immediate future. That didn’t sit well with the Planning Commission on Nov. 9. Their questions indicated that the planned use for the vacant field is not […]
Benicia Letters Once More: The Drive-in
The following “letter” is part of the continuing series from the unpublished novel by James Garrett, “Benicia Letters Once More”.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 […]
Letters: Harold Bray and ISO
ISO town hall discussion panel tonight The city of Benicia is the only refinery town in the Bay Area not protected by an Industrial Safety Ordinance. In Contra Costa County, the Hazardous Materials Division of the Health Department is responsible for enforcing an ISO that governs the three refineries in the county’s unincorporated areas – […]
Benicia High news broadcast program continues to evolve
Lights, camera, action…lots and lots of action. That is the best way to describe Benicia High School’s Panther TV. Since its inception in 2013, the weekly web series that serves as an offshoot of the film production class has had the same goal: to deliver the news of on-campus happenings to students and their parents […]
Letters: ISO and water woes
We need an ISO As a Benicia resident I found out about the May 5 Valero refinery near-catastrophic emergency shutdown and major flaring incident in real time, when I drove through the large black cloud of smoke looming over Interstate 680 which was headed directly toward the Suisun Marsh and the city of Fairfield. The […]
Planning Commision sends noise ordinance change to City Council
A noise regulation and permit for storage were on the agenda for the Planning Commission at its Thursday meeting, and both were approved by the Commission. Michael Robirds, a Benicia industrialist, wanted to use 2.3 acres of land north of Interstate 780 and west of Park Road as a site to store construction equipment and […]