Election season is in full swing in Benicia, and the candidates are already picking up endorsements from local groups. Throughout much of last week, the Solano County Democratic Central Committee interviewed almost 40 candidates throughout the county seeking office at city council and school board levels. In Benicia races, the group interviewed District 2 Board […]
Candidate Spotlight: Councilmember Christina Strawbridge to seek re-election
City Council member Christina Strawbridge will be running for re-election in November, seeking to retain her seat on the council for an additional term. In an interview with the Herald Monday, Strawbridge said she feels confident that she has done a good job thus far and hopes all the people who have supported her during […]
Candidate Spotlight: Second Planning Commissioner, George Oakes, files for Benicia City Council race
2 incumbents, 3 newcomers in race Planning Commissioner George Oakes filed papers in July to appear on the November ballot as a candidate for Benicia’s city council, the second planning commissioner to do so this year. Steve Young filed his intent to run just a few months earlier. In an interview at the Herald on […]
Bob’s Liquor makeover continues this week
The Healthy Stores for a Healthy Community project broke ground at Bob’s Liquor and Food on West J Street Monday. Dignitaries and volunteer workers, some of whom fit both categories– namely Benicia Youth Action Coalition members Patti Baron of the Benicia Police Department, City Councilmember Christina Strawbridge, and Vice Mayor Mark Hughes, among others,–were on […]
Economic Development Board vice chair, Lionel Largaespada, to run for Benicia City Council
Lionel Largaespada, the vice chair of Benicia’s Economic Development Board, recently announced his intention to run in the Benicia City Council’s November election. Largaespada graduated from Pinole Valley High School in 1989, majored in government and minored in philosophy at St. Mary’s College in Moraga and received his master’s in mass communication at Boston […]