Vacaville News

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.

All are the capital improvement projects slated for the 2013-14 fiscal year in Vacaville.

A sure sign of late spring and early summer in Vacaville, Aliki's Finest, a down-home produce stand at Fruitvale Road and Orchard Avenue, opened Saturday for its seasonal run, which ends on Labor Day.

Those two little words seem to fall enormously short of what I want to express to the numerous people who stepped up and helped when Mother Nature decided to blindside me with a knockout punch to the appendix.

The Fairfield City Council is being asked by staff to join an agreement with several other agencies that would provide more flexibility to paratransit services and eventually save money, according to a staff report.

According to the Bureau of Labor Stat-istics "Volunteering in the United States 2012," women continued to volunteer at a higher percentage rate than did men across all age groups, educational levels and other major demographic characteristics.

The luncheon celebrates CASA's continuing status as a nonprofit organization. The luncheon will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, at the Solano Event Center, 601 Texas Street, in Fairfield.

After two decades, the Vacaville Performing Arts Theatre has entered the realm of true civic institution, a fact that will be celebrated today with a free 20th anniversary event at the Ulatis Drive venue.