By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette Special to the Herald Despite assaults by flying monkeys, robots, zombies, pirates and sharks, a giant Osprey handled by Tree Bartlett, Nick Busch, Dan Baron and Valerie and Michael Nelson won the Obtainium Cup trophy Sunday afternoon on Mare Island in Vallejo. In its seventh year, the Obtainium Cup […]
‘Obtainium Cup’ Contraptor Race Sunday On Mare Island
By Donna Beth Weilenman Martinez News-Gazette A road race will pit the drivers of some oddball vehicles against flying monkeys, robots and zombies Sunday on Vallejo’s Mare Island. The contest is called “The Obtainium Cup Contraptor’s Road Rally,” and this is the seventh year for the organized mayhem. It’s somewhat inspired by the three-day Kinetic […]
Throwback Thursday: Herald headlines for the week of July 1, 1943, 1968 and 1993
Compiled by Nick Sestanovich 75 years ago Observation Post Changes Command (July 1, 1943) After two years, A.W. Stapleton, who was appointed chief observer by the Fourth Fighter Command Aircraft Warning Service, has resigned that office and recommended that Mrs. Ivy Nance be appointed to succeed him. In summing up two years, Stapleton stated that […]
Girl Scout, Benicia High grad earns Gold Award for efforts to refurbish Mare Island center
After 13 years as a Girl Scout, Emily Radtke of Troop 20640 received the highest honor she possibly could: a Gold Award. The award was a culmination of more than 8 months of work to address Vallejo’s homeless problem. Radtke, an 18-year-old recent Benicia High School graduate, joined the Girl Scouts at the age of […]
New Benicia Library art exhibit by Napa couple features images of Mare Island, Cuba
The new art show at the Benicia Public Library is a showcase of the talents of two different artists from two different mediums who live under the same roof. It will also provide an artistic view of two different islands: Mare Island and Cuba. “Two Islands/Two Artists” is a joint show by husband and wife […]
NightMARE Island to disappear for the year after Oct. 31
Get ready to get scared for a good cause, as NightMARE Island, the annual Halloween-themed fundraiser at the Mare Island Shoreline Heritage Preserve, continues through Monday, Oct. 31. This year’s haunted house, created by Kay’s House of Horrors, is located at Building A-168, a 5,000-sq. ft. former bomb storage unit. Zombies will be on hand […]
Suisun Reserve Fleet down another ship
USS Kawishiwi, 1950s-era oil carrier, to be towed to Mare Island Thursday An oiler built to refuel an entire task force without any help will leave the Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay on Thursday en route Mare Island Dry Docks, Vallejo, in preparation for towing to Texas, where it will be broken apart and recycled. The […]
Congressman sees opportunities for Mare Island, and Benicia
Editor’s note: Second of three parts. Mare Island’s history as a shipyard dates to 1854, when it became the first U.S. Naval installation on the West Coast under Commodore David Farragut’s command. For more than a century, the Navy operated the shipyard, and at one time it had more than 18,000 employees before the naval […]
Research ship to be repaired in Vallejo
Mare Island firm wins contract to fix NOAA’s Ronald H. Brown Mare Island Dry Docks has been awarded another contract, this time worth $1.9 million, for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ship’s repair, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Napa, announced. The Ronald H. Brown, a NOAA research vessel, will be dry docked and repaired by the […]