Sister City Association Emissary Lic. Octavio Magaña of Tula, Mexico stopped into Benicia recently to share news of the town’s sister city’s recent induction of its new Mayor, Lic. Ismael Gadoth Tapia. The new mayor began his official term of office in Tula on Friday, Aug. 19. Magaña was planning a visit to the Bay […]
Council votes to move funds at Tuesday meeting
At its regular meeting Tuesday, Benicia City Council heard reports on greenhouse gas emissions, Net Energy Metering income, and Benicia’s urban water management plan. In addition, the council approved a motion to arbitrarily increase the agendized annual contract award of $100,000 to Benicia Main Street (BMS), opting to increase the proposed contract amount to $110,000 […]
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 […]
Benicia by Torchlight: Annual Third of July parade to be marshaled by city theater group
This year’s Torchlight Parade that starts at 6:30 p.m. Thursday on First Street has an unusual grand marshal — the Benicia Old Town Theatre Group. BOTTG President Dan Clark said this may be the first time an organization, rather than an individual or couple, has been the parade’s grand marshal. It was an apt choice. […]
Mayor, groups want city to oppose Community Choice ‘opt-in’
Mayor Elizabeth Patterson will ask the City Council on Tuesday to oppose Assembly Bill 2145 that affects Community Choice Aggregation programs. CCA is a system that lets cities and counties join, or aggregate, the buying power of individual power customers so they can secure alternative energy contracts on a communitywide basis. They’re alternative programs to […]
STA seeks help for highway projects
Transit agency makes yearly lobbying expedition east During its annual lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., the Solano Transportation Authority Board of Directors urged the county’s representatives in Congress to put money back in the federal Highway Trust Fund. If that funding isn’t restored by June, the massive Interstate 80, Interstate 680 and California Highway 12 […]