After more than seven years of service to Touro University's California campus and the Northern California community, Provost and Chief Operating Officer Marilyn Hopkins, retired on Thursday, university officials said.
Senator Bill Dodd and Assembly-members Jim Frazier, Cecilia Aguiar-Curry and Tim Grayson recognized and honored her significant accomplishments with an official resolution, they said.
Vallejo's Touro provost, COO, retires after seven productive yearsNAPA >> A pond in Napa's Huichica Creek Unit, at the end of Milton Road, was linked to the death of two dogs that swam in the water within the last week, county officials said.
Officials blame a blue-green algae problem. Warning signs have been posted in the area.
Napa County health officials urge recreational water users to avoid close contact with bodies of water containing blue-green algae.
Napa Public Health warns of toxic blue-green algae bloomsA bill to protect families who want to pass their farm or business on to the next generation was introduced by Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), his office announced.
The Family Business Preservation Estate Tax Act would create a deduction, allowing families to pass their business to their descendants, without losing the farm, so-to-speak, in estate taxes, as long as it remains in the family.
Thompson floats bill to keep estate taxes from hurting familiesNAPA >> Napa County's farm worker housing got a $250,000 shot in the arm Tuesday after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state budget, county officials said.
"Because of the relentless advocacy and leadership of Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, Senator Bill Dodd, and our wine industry partners, we can continue providing safe and affordable housing for Napa County farm workers," Napa County Board of Supervisors chair Belia Ramos said in a statement.
Napa County gets $250,000 in state funding for farm worker housingSeveral gallons of water was lost and two drivers in two vehicles were injured in a collision that took out a fire hydrant, Vallejo Fire Department spokesmen said.
Vallejo firefighters and police responded to a reported vehicle collision with a fire hydrant sheared off at the intersection of Florida and Toulumne streets at 8:30 a.
Car vs. hydrant crash in Vallejo injures pairThe Solano EDC has launched a new website, following a major strategic planning effort meant to attract jobs and business to Solano County, agency officials announced.
SolanoMeansBusiness.com. "reflects an aggressive new strategy" highlighting the competitive advantages of setting up a business in the least expensive county in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, EDC president and CEO Sandy Person said.
New website plugs Solano County as a wise choice for a new businessCalling Berryessa Snow Mountain "a stunning place," Brent Rose said his recent visit to the local site whose National Monument status is threatened by the Trump Administration, was not what he expected.
Described as a millennial Charles Kuralt, Rose recently set out to visit all 22 of the National Monuments that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is evaluating for possible de-classification.
Former Bay Area man on marathon trip to save threatened Berryessa Snow MountainAMERICAN CANYON >> An alignment of the city's in-law apartment regulations with new state rules proved more complicated than expected, and only passed at Tuesday's City Council meeting with the promise of better explanations of some of its elements.
The special meeting was held in lieu of the one previously set for Aug.
More details on new in-law units at next American Canyon City Council meetingA first-ever detailed study on Berryessa Snow Mountain - the local "National Monument" being considered for un-classification by the Trump administration - is being released Tuesday. It spells out a number of reasons why the area should retain its designation, a spokeswoman for the agency that produced the study said.
Study finds good reason to keep Berryessa Snow Mountain a National MonumentNew policies about "in-law" apartments and a proclamation on the benefits of parks are among the subjects on tap for a special American Canyon City Council meeting set for 6:30 Tuesday.
This meeting is being held in lieu of the first regular meeting in August, which is being canceled in favor of National Night Out.
American Canyon likely to adopt new in-law unit policies at special meeting TuesdayA woman was seriously injured early Monday after her car left Interstate 80 and rolled some 75 feet down an embankment, a Vallejo Fire Department consultant said.
Vallejo Fire Department, Medic Ambulance and California Highway Patrol personnel responded to a reported rollover accident at 4:24 a.
Woman seriously injured in solo vehicle rollover crash in Vallejo early MondayA new weapon in Vallejo's fight against illegal dumping will make its second appearance July 8, when an area on Mare Island is set aside for residents to leave unwanted items during a Free Dump Day.
In an effort to provide residents with an affordable alternative to illegal dumping, the city of Vallejo is partnering with Recology Vallejo to host a Free Dump Day from 9 a.
Vallejo's second annual Free Dump Day July 8Vallejo's Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar is among those in the restaurant chain throughout the country raising funds to fight childhood cancer, company officials announced.
For the 12th year, Applebee's is teaming with#xa0;Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation through July 30, to raise money for the fight against childhood cancers, according to the announcement.
Help Applebee's fight childhood cancer at Vallejo, Napa, Fairfield, other locationsA Vallejo transient was arrested Saturday for stealing from the Goodwill store in American Canyon, police said.
Just after 1:15 p.m. American Canyon Police Department officers were dispatched to the Goodwill store, on American Canyon Road, after a theft was reported.
An woman reportedly walked into store, took a dozen items, and walked out of the store without paying for them, police said.
American Canyon store owner makes citizen's arrest of alleged shoplifterA Fairfield man was in custody late Sunday after Vallejo police caught him "doing donuts" in a city intersection, Vallejo Police Department Lt. Herman Robinson said Monday.
Just before midnight Sunday, police arrested John William Bonnette, Jr., of Fairfield, 18, who was stopped while driving a 2002 black Ford Mustang, after police say they saw him doing dangerous maneuvers on Springs Road, Robinson said.
Fairfield man arrested for doing donuts in a Vallejo intersection SundayPersonal fireworks are forbidden in Vallejo, Benicia and American Canyon, and officials from all three cities urge residents to attend the officials fireworks displays planned in each.
The Vallejo Fire and Police departments want all residents in the city of Vallejo and East Vallejo Fire Protection District areas to know that fireworks are prohibited in Vallejo and the unincorporated county, areas except for the professional shows at the Waterfront and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on the Fourth of July.
All but professional fireworks forbidden in Vallejo, Benicia, American CanyonA Sig-Alert was issued after up to six vehicles were involved in a crash Monday morning on Interstate 80 near Redwood Street in Vallejo.
The crash was reported just after 10 a.m. on westbound I-80, involving up to six vehicles, including a gray sedan (possibly a Frontier), a white Nissan Leaf, a white Ford Fiesta and a big-rig.
Multi-vehicle crash, possible injuries on Vallejo freewayAMERICAN CANYON >> After years of waiting, American Canyon residents finally saw Kimberly Park get a makeover last year, but after just a few months, already there are complaints.
At Tuesday's city council meeting, longtime resident Matt Stewart said that while "98 percent of Kimberly Park is great, the turf is not working.
Newly refurbished Kimberly Park already has problems, possible lawsuit being consideredIt feels a little like somebody died.
That's how more than one person shopping in the Vallejo Raley's supermarket on Friday described the atmosphere in the 30-year-old store as it prepared to close for good on Saturday.
"This is my regular store," Lenette Enrile of Vallejo said. "It's convenient for me because I go to the 24-Hour Fitness.
Shelves nearly empty as Vallejo's Raley's prepares to close for good SaturdayA 25-year-old Fairfield man was sentenced Friday to more than 15 years in prison for pimping out a young girl, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. sentenced Michael Anthony Holmes of Fairfield, to 15 years and eight months in prison for sex#xa0;trafficking a minor, U.
Fairfield man gets 25 years for sex trafficking young girlAMERICAN CANYON >> City officials here have long known that dangerous conditions exist for anyone crossing Highway 29 at Rio Del Mar, and some sort of fix may soon be getting under way, city officials said Thursday.
The issue came up again at Tuesday's council meeting, when former mayoral candidate Doug Lindsey asked what interim solutions might be offered for the problem.
Dangerous pedestrian conditions at American Canyon intersection still unsolvedHome prices are still rising in the Vallejo area, though more slowly than in recent months, and rents here have fallen, according to two new industry reports.
CoreLogic's latest report, released Thursday, shows home sales rose by double digits between April and May in the nine Bay Area counties.
Home price increases slow and rents drop slightly in Vallejo area in MayAMERICAN CANYON >> A 23-year-old Vallejo man was in custody in Napa County on Wednesday after an incident in the Walmart parking lot, American Canyon police said.
At about 3:18 p.m., a man later identified as Vallejo resident Alec Bernardo, allegedly jumped on to the hood of a show car in front of the store to take a selfie, when he was confronted by a female company representative who "grabbed onto him," Napa County Sheriff's Department Capt.
Vallejo man makes selfie mistake, arrested in American CanyonTwo incidents - about 10 minutes apart - at the American Canyon Safeway store on Wednesday resulted in two Vallejo people being arrested, Napa County Sheriff's Office Capt. Steve Blower said.
The first episode unfolded at about 10:11 a.m., when a woman, later identified as Robin Doran, 27, a Vallejo transient, entered the Safeway and allegedly tried taking several cases of Red Bull and Infamil without paying, Blower said.
Two Vallejo residents arrested for alleged crimes in American Canyon supermarketAMERICAN CANYON >> The city council unanimously agreed to support efforts to maintain the National Monument designation of Berryessa Snow Mountain - which may be threatened by Trump Administration policy - and to send individual letters to that effect to the federal government.
President Trump signed an executive order on April 26 to reevaluate all national monuments declared during a 21-year period from 1996 to last year, including the Clearlake area's Berryessa Snow Mountain that took some seven years of work to achieve.
American Canyon council members vow to fight for Berryessa National Monument statusPacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) urges its customers to conserve energy and avoid power outages during the ongoing Bay Area heat wave.
The utility's officials forecasts consumers in its service area may break all-time electricity use records Thursday, as meteorologists forecast the heat peaking, driving up energy demand - especially air conditioner use - to levels not seen since 2006.
PG&E urges energy conservation to avoid power outages at peak of heat waveThe public is invited to help Kaiser Permanente's Vallejo Medical Center mark National Cancer Survivors Day on Saturday with its 4th Annual Celebrate Life event - a day of learning, wellness and living after cancer, hospital officials announced
Kaiser Permanente specialists will discuss the latest advancements in cancer treatments and research, as well as the mind/body connection to surviving and thriving after cancer, they said.
Kaiser Vallejo marks National Cancer Survivors Day with free event SaturdayMare Island and Vallejo have pretty much anything and everything a film production company needs, and Mark Walter of Film Mare Island says he's determined to bring whatever may be missing to create a one-stop studio shop here.
The southern California native's Film Mare Island has partnered with Cinelease, a 37-year-old independent rental firm, to become the go-to site for any film, commercial, TV show, music video or other similar venture, he said.
Film Mare Island creating one-stop film-making shopSolano County officials warn of the dangers of extreme heat and offer advice for staying healthy as the thermostat soars to 100 degrees or more.
The National Weather Service's excessive heat warning for Solano County remains in effect until 11 p.m. Friday, with temperatures forecasted to reach the upper 90s to low 100s, with the heat gradually subsiding over the weekend, county officials said.
Excessive heat warning for Solano County through FridayU.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena)#xa0;presented Alannah Elyse Ruiz of Vallejo with a Congressional Award Gold Medal. She is likely the first Vallejo resident to be so honored.
The medal, which was presented to Ruiz, 18, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, "is bestowed upon young Americans who complete at least 400 hours of community service, 200 hours of personal development and physical fitness activities, and a four-night educational expedition or excursion.
Vallejo woman presented Congressional Award Gold MedalWith the National Weather Service announcing record temperatures across Northern California this week, AAA reminds motorists to prepare their cars - and themselves - for extreme heat.
Temperatures were expected to remain above 100 degrees in many cities in the area, with the National Weather Service issuing a heat advisory for the Bay Area.
Prepare your vehicle for extreme heat this summerSolano County's Auditor-Controller's Office was awarded the Certificate for Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for its comprehensive annual financial report ending June 30. This is the 15th consecutive year the county's been so recognized, officials said.
Solano County again recognized for excellence in financial reportingNAPA >> Friday is Pet Sitter's International's 19th annual Take Your Dog To Work Day, so, the Napa Valley Transportation Authority and Vine Transit will join organizations worldwide in opening their doors to employees' furry, four-legged best friends, agency officials announced.
This marks the first year of NVTA's participation in the event, they said.
Napa public transit going to the dogs this weekA crash on a Vallejo street early Tuesday left one Vallejo woman dead, Vallejo Police Department officials said.
At 6:31 a.m., Vallejo police officers responded to a report of a major injury collision on Curtola Parkway west of Lemon Street, officials said.
On arrival, they found two cars had collided mid-block in front of the SolTrans Curtola Park & Ride Hub, according to police.
Fatal crash leaves Vallejo woman deadIt's possible that heat records in Vallejo will be broken and the sweltering triple-digit temperatures may not be done yet, officials said.
The current heat wave is expected to last at least through Thursday - but ongoing record-keeping issues here make it tough to know for sure, National Weather Service meteorologist Cory Mueller said Monday.
Vallejo area surviving recent heat waveFor the first time in its 40-year history, Vallejo's Florence Douglas Senior Center is flying the Rainbow Flag in honor of acceptance for all, center executive director Peter Wilson said.
Gay Pride events tend to be held in June nationally, helping explain the timing of this gesture.
Wilson said he raised the flag, which is now under the U.
Vallejo's senior center flies LGBTQ pride up the flagpoleA para-glider was moderately injured after he crashed-landed in Vallejo on Friday afternoon, Vallejo Fire Department officials said.
Vallejo fire fighters and Medic Ambulance, along with Reach air ambulance personnel, responded to a 4 p.m. report of a para-glider that had crashed at St. John's Mine Road and Columbus Parkway, officials said.
Para glider injured in VallejoA Vallejo man was in custody Sunday after allegedly running a woman over in a parking lot Sunday, a Vallejo Police Department spokesman said.
Witnesses called police about 6 p.m. to report a man in a dispute with a woman in the parking lot of the Home Depot on Admiral Callaghan Lane, Lt. Kent Tribble said.
Vallejo man arrested for allegedly running woman over with a carIt's been nearly two weeks since Ariana Pratt's father was killed in a motorcycle crash on the freeway near Vallejo, and the family wants some answers.
The 27-year-old college student from Petaluma said her father, Vallejo native Dailey Sparks, 51, was on his way early Sunday morning to visit her mother, but never arrived.
Family questions timing, circumstances of fatal Vallejo motorcycle crashThough the name may not suggest it, Bourbon House Beer, Wine and Spirits is the latest Vallejo store to undergo a healthy makeover, celebrated Friday with a ribbon cutting and neighborhood celebration.
Some 30 or more people from nearly a half dozen local nonprofits and other organizations descended on the store at 1641 Broadway St.
Vallejo's Bourbon House liquor store adds healthier optionsOne company from Benicia and another from Vacaville are sharing part of nearly $63 million in tax credits for creating jobs, state officials announced.
Toiletry products maker Kim Rollo Emanuel, LLC of Benicia added 12 full-time employees and invested $121,000, earning it a nearly $211,000 tax credit, according to the announcement.
Two Solano County firms get state funds for job creationThe hard-won and recently granted National Monument status of the Berryessa Snow Mountain is believed to be in jeopardy, and American Canyon City Council members are scheduled to consider officially supporting efforts to keep its protected status.
This is one of several items up for discussion at Tuesday's City Council meeting, the public portion of which is set for 6:30 p.
American Canyon officials to consider fighting for local national monumentThe unemployment rate in Solano and Napa Counties continued their downward trajectory in May, the latest state figures, released Friday, reveal.
The jobless rate in Solano was 4.3 percent in May, down from 4.7 percent in April, and below the year-ago estimate of 4.9 percent, while Napa County's May jobless rate was 3.
Jobless rate down in Solano, Napa in MayWhat better way to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States than by enjoying music and food and learning about ways to improve your life and live the "American Dream"?
The African American Family Reunion Committee will host just that sort of event for Vallejo's 29th Annual Juneteenth Celebration from 11 a.
Vallejo's 29th annual Juneteenth is SaturdayMeg Gardiner says she's old enough to remember when the never-identified, so-called, Zodiac killer was terrifying Northern Californians with a murder spree that started in Vallejo.
It's one of the reasons she wrote UNSUB, her 13th novel. CBS has already bought the rights to the book and officials there plan to create a TV series.
Author of new Zodiac-inspired novel and planned TV series, holds Bay Area eventsVallejo drivers are paying 13 cents per gallon more for gas this month than they did last month, and that's not even the steepest increase in the state, AAA reports. That distinction goes to Ukiah, where gas prices rose 27 cents per gallon.
California's average price for gasoline fell by nearly four cents this week as demand for fuel continued dropping in the aftermath of the state's record-setting Memorial Day travel weekend, according to AAA.
Gas prices rise with summer looming, AAA reportsThe Vallejo-based Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service has mobilized nearly 600 regionally-based wild-land firefighters and support personnel to wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico, agency officials announced Thursday.
Resources sent include 19 engines, 18, 20-person fire crews including three hotshot crews, a helicopter and more than 100 specialists like dispatchers, safety officers, aviation managers and fire prevention patrols.
Vallejo-based USFS sends hundreds to help fight western firesSolTrans is offering special service today, Thursday, June 15, surrounding the parade for the champion Golden State Warriors, officials announced. This means:
. Route 80 - Vallejo-El Cerrito del Norte BART Station: Bus service from 5 to 10 a.m. and from 1 to 7 p.m. will run every 15 minutes.
Going to Warriors' parade? SolTrans can helpVallejo's economic fortunes have turned a corner and are moving full steam ahead, speakers at a Wednesday economic development luncheon said.
The speakers, which included local business and city leaders, did not say if the city is taking the former Naval Shipyard at Mare Island along for the ride, or if the good economic news is being driven by development on the island.
Biz Buzz: Economy going gangbusters in Vallejo, Mare IslandVallejo's second and last surviving Payless shoe store is closing, according to company officials.
The store, located in the Vallejo Corners shopping center, joins the other site, on Redwood - the closure of which was announced in April.
Both closures, plus hundreds more, are the result of the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy and restructuring, officials said.
Vallejo's last Payless shoe store closingThis year's fireworks show on the Vallejo waterfront, already an iffy proposition, is likely to become more so as development continues in the city, organizers said.
That's why it took so long for local businessmen Ken Ingersoll and Raymond Prather to start raising funds for this year's show, Ingersoll said.
Vallejo waterfront will have fireworks if sufficient funds are raised in timeBENICIA >> Everyone went their separate ways none the worse for wear, after a Benicia Police Department Officer "rescued an opossum and a woman from each other (early Tuesday)," a department spokeswoman said.
The call came in at about 1:50 a.m., when a woman found a baby opossum under her bed and was unable to get it to come out after some 20 minutes of trying, Benicia Police Department spokeswoman Irma Widjojo said.
Opossum successfully removed from Benicia home by policeFabrice Moschetti, Vallejo's longtime artisan coffee roaster, says bringing the first state-of-the-art Swiss-made coffee-roasting technology to the United States may have been fated.
He just didn't realize it until now.
Moschetti recently bought and is having installed a new, high-tech roaster from 150-plus-year-old, Switzerland-based international equipment manufacturing firm Buhler.
Old world artisanship meets digital age tools in VallejoBarry Callebaut, the international chocolate maker with its U.S. operation based in American Canyon, has joined cosmetics giant L'Or#xe9;al to become the newest members of an initiative for responsibly produced palm oil, the Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG) announced Tuesday.
These companies join others in the group that have committed to stepping up efforts to drive "the much-needed transformation of the palm oil sector," according to the announcement.
American Canyon chocolate maker joins responsible palm oil effortDaisy Villenueva said she's seeing signs of impending fascism in the United States. If anyone should be able to recognize fascism, she's one, having lived through the Marcos regime and its aftermath up close and personal in the Philippines.
"There was a crackdown on the press and on student resistance, for instance," she said.
Local business owner/artist narrowly escaped Philippines martial law decades agoThe Solano County District Attorney's Office, Family Justice Center in partnership with the Senior Coalition of Solano County invite the public to stand up against elder abuse by attending the Elder Abuse Forum from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday at Suisun City's Joseph Nelson Community Center, 611 Village Drive, organizers announced.
Solano County offers free elder abuse awareness forum ThursdayNAPA >> Napa County officials broke ground on a new correctional re-entry facility during a ceremony Friday afternoon at 2300 Napa-Vallejo Highway, organizers announced.
The 72-bed, 23,000-square-foot facility, will help reduce recidivism by providing lower level offenders with opportunities for employment and education through structured programs and services that decrease the long-term need for expensive jail beds, officials said.
Construction on new Napa County jail facility beginsKaiser Permanente's medical centers in Vallejo and Vacaville received recognition for their quality stroke care, officials announced.
Kaiser was awarded the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus, officials said.
Kaiser Vallejo, Vacaville recognized for superior stroke careVallejo's Bourbon House Beer, Wine and Spirits this past weekend became the subject of Solano County's sixth healthy store makeover, the Solano County Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health Division announced.
Bourbon House will now carry more fruits, vegetables and healthy snacks and beverages at its checkout area, as part of the VibeSolano healthy store makeover initiative, officials said.
Solano County's sixth corner store gets healthy makeoverThe percentage of homeowners still under water in their mortgages is ever-so-slightly higher in the Vallejo area than the rest of the country, though, with home prices here still rising at a faster pace than elsewhere, that's bound to improve, two newly released reports suggest.
CoreLogic's latest home equity analysis finds that 6.
Home prices still rising, though some in Solano remain 'under water'For the tenth consecutive year, Kaiser Permanente received the highest ranking for customer satisfaction among California health plans, according to the J.D. Power 2017 Member Health Plan Study, Kaiser officials announced.
Kaiser outperformed all other California health plans, scoring 780 points on a 1,000-point scale, 64 points above the average statewide score, and 64 points more than the next highest ranked health plan, they said.
Kaiser Permanente again ranks highest in customer satisfaction, study findsIf you're a Solano County adult searching for ways to make a difference, Solano County Public Health "needs 20 unique men and women to be trained as coaches to facilitate free Healthier Living chronic disease self-management workshops," officials announced.
"An ideal candidate to lead a Healthier Living workshop is an enthusiastic adult who is committed to helping others and who may have a chronic disease, or cares for someone with a chronic disease, or works with chronic disease in the healthcare field," Solano Public Health, Health Education Manager Robin Cox said.
Solano County offering opportunity to help others improve their healthVallejo Police Department officials are looking for a suspect, based on a witness description, in a rash of vegetation fires that hit south Vallejo Monday, a Vallejo Fire Department spokesman said.
Vallejo Fire Department spokesman Kevin Brown said three fires broke out within about 20 minutes of each other.
Three small fires possibly intentionally set within minutes in VallejoA pair of armed robbers made off with some loot after climbing in the take-out window of a Vallejo Taco Bell restaurant early Monday, Vallejo Police Lt. Kent Tribble said.
The incident happened at about 4 a.m. at the Taco Bell on Solano Avenue, he said.
"Two suspects apparently pried open and climbed through the take-out window while one employee was outside smoking on the other side of the building and another employee was sleeping," Tribble said.
Armed robbers climb through Taco Bell take-out windowThis year, American Canyon High School has 15 valedictorians - one fewer than last year.
At this 8-year-old school, they approach the idea of valedictorians slightly differently than most, having determined at the start that anyone and everyone meeting the criteria, gets the title.
It's only right, school officials said.
American Canyon High School had 15 valedictorians in 2017Two women were in custody early Sunday after one of them fired a gun, a Benicia Police Department spokeswoman said.
Residents in the area of the 900 block of Cambridge Drive might have heard and seen some police activity around 3:15 a.m. that day, where officers determined that no one had been injured in the incident.
Shots fired, no injuries, in BeniciaVallejo's ninth homicide of 2017 took the life of a male victim in the early hours of Saturday, Vallejo Police Department officials said.
Reports of a shooting in the area of the 400 block of Corcoran Avenue came in to police at about 12:15 a.m., they said.
Police found evidence of a crime scene but no victim, because he had left the scene before police arrived, department officials said.
Vallejo suffers ninth homicide of yearAMERICAN CANYON >> City officials may have reached the end of their proverbial rope with regard to a long-promised luxury apartment development here and could pull the plug at Tuesday's meeting.
Advanced Building Solutions is appealing the Planning Commission's decision to deny extending the Village at Vintage Ranch's design permit's expiration date from July 27, 2017 to January 27, 2018.
Planned American Canyon luxury town homes' last gasp Tuesday?The Vallejo housing market is heading into the stratosphere, being pushed there by what's happening to real estate in the rest of the Bay Area, experts say.
Two separate studies released this week show the Vallejo area remains the nation's hottest real estate market and that rents here are also sharply on the rise.
Two studies show Vallejo area remains nation's hottest real estate marketThe American Red Cross presented the Clara Barton Honor Award for Meritorious Volunteer Leadership to Alzinia Pailin of Fairfield, organization officials announced.
"This once-in-a-lifetime award aims to recognize volunteer leaders who have made significant contributions in leadership roles over a long period of time," they said.
Napa Solano Red Cross honors local volunteersAMERICAN CANYON >> A new principal has been selected for American Canyon High School and she starts July 1, Napa Valley Unified School District officials announced.
Crystal Lopez, assistant principal at San Ramon's California High School, was approved at Thursday's Napa Valley Unified School District Board of Education meeting, officials said.
Crystal Lopez tapped as new American Canyon High School principalA Vallejo man was hospitalized with serious injuries after crashing his motorcycle in town on Friday, Vallejo Police Department Lt. Kevin Bartlett said.
The crash happened just after noon at Rollingwood Drive and Pope Drive, when the driver apparently lost control of his Harley Davidson and crashed it, sustaining major, life-threatening injuries, he said.
Vallejo man badly injured in motorcycle crashA 15-year-old Jesse Bethel High School student was in custody Friday after he brought a loaded gun to school and snapped and posted photos of it online, Vallejo Police Department Lt. Kevin Bartlett said.
The ninth-grader evidently stole the loaded, 9mm handgun from his unsuspecting parents and brought it to school, Bartlett said.
Vallejo ninth-grader arrested after bringing loaded gun to schoolAMERICAN CANYON >> A free event aimed at acquainting locals with Islam and the Middle East is planned for 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 16 at the American Canyon High School cafeteria, and organizers are working to spread the word.
"Join us to learn about Middle Eastern culture and the Islamic faith, which is such an integral part of that culture," says a flyer being distributed by the American Canyon Arts Foundation, which is producing the event.
Middle East/Islamic cultural event planned for June in American CanyonA bill by state Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa) that seeks to teach students how to tell the difference between fake and real news passed the Senate this week, Dodd's office announced.
Legislation to introduce media literacy education into school curriculums "aims to combat fake news and ensure students have the tools to succeed in the digital age," according to the announcement.
Dodd's media literacy bill passes SenateThe Laurel Street Bridge over west and eastbound Interstate 780 in Vallejo is coming down, a demolition that should take 10 days, the California Department of Transportation announced.
Bridge demolition starts 9 p.m. Thursday, June 1, and is expected to be completed by the morning of Monday, June 12, they said.
I-780 at Laurel street, full highway closures for 10 consecutirve nights for bridge demoA Vallejo man was hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds after a confrontation with police in Martinez on Wednesday, Vallejo Police Department spokesman Lt. Jeff Bassett said.
The events in Martinez were the culmination of nearly a week of police trying to track the man down, he said.
On May 25, Vallejo Police Department Crime Reduction Team (CRT) officers were involved in a vehicle pursuit with a man who was allegedly driving "in a severely reckless manner," Bassett said in a statement.
Vallejo cops shoot Vallejo suspect in Martinez on Wednesday