Vacaville News

Now a mechanical/aerospace engineer for Orbital Sciences Corp. in Dulles, Va., Pakbaz is awaiting the on-sale date for his latest creation using the popular plastic construction bricks - the Curiosity Mars rover.

Ari Hughes was 16 when he first lost sight in his right eye due to an optical disease called uveitis.

Area firefighters battled a six-alarm fire for more than 8 hours Tuesday licking through the open space between East Second Street and Lake Herman Road before containing it fully at about 10:30 p.m. The fire, which had consumed more than 120 acres, was reported at about 2:15 p.m. at 4501 California Court.

Among the projects, two focus on sewer replacement, two on sewer improvements, two on reservoir rehabilitation and two on bike paths.

A two-alarm fire ripped through a Vacaville home early Tuesday morning, collapsing the roof and displacing its residents, officials said.

A grass fire along Interstate 80 in Fairfield quickly spread to a nearby three-story motel, shut down a freeway onramp and created a spectacle that saw people lining up along Central Place and Suisun Valley Road to watch firefighters in action.

The fair has added one group each year since 2010 and the Inter-Tribal Council will join the Filipino Community of Solano County, the Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce and the Solano Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Kappel & Kappel Realty and Gateway Realty have merged and purchased a Coldwell Banking franchise, creating a realty powerhouse in Solano County.

A requirement that Solano County's upcoming Level II trauma center provide labor and delivery service has become an issue, though how big an issue remains to be seen.

"The noise! I love the guns," explained Duncan, an avid Civil War buff who has been participating in reenactments with his family since 2001.

Home-improvement retail chain Orchard Supply Hardware, which has six North Bay stores, today filed for Bankruptcy Court reorganization protection and has inked a $205 million tentative deal with Lowe's Home Improvement, which has four North Bay stores, to acquire many of the OSH stores.

Fairfield police and the California Highway Patrol closed down Lyon Road Monday morning to search the nearby fields and hills for four Hispanic men who ran from their Acura Integra after it hit a Buick Lucerne on westbound Interstate 80. More than a dozen Fairfield police, backed up by a CHP aircraft, fanned out through the area around the ... (more)

An open-to-the-public pot-luck dinner will be held at 6 pm, followed by remarks from Cindy at 7, at Random Row Books in Charlottesville on June 25th.

Alpha Pregnancy Resource Center will hold Solano County's first ever 5k Color Run on Saturday, June 29, at Lagoon Valley Park in Vacaville.

You don't have to travel far to taste the creativity that Itani cooks up in his kitchen at Hopscotch, 1915 San Pablo Ave. at 19th Street in Oakland.

It's not that he was afraid of the live ones, crawling around the bottom just a few inches from his fingers, he was simply doing a good deed.

That's the loose theme of this nuggets column, a compilation of things I found interesting Saturday and decided to share with the rest of you.

Dear Straight Talk: How nice to discover this forum! I'm a new stepfather to a boy, 14 and a girl, 16. Their mother has had full custody for eight years.

For the past several weeks, we have been celebrating our successful high school graduates in Solano County.

While sending care packages to troops overseas is a time-honored tradition, Emeritus at Vacaville delivers them to local senior veterans or their surviving spouses during Memorial Day week in an initiative designed to assist them in staying safely in their homes.