Fairfield News

Spirits were high Saturday as Winterhawk Winery hosted its weekly dose of live music and wine tastings among the vineyards of the Suisun Valley.

Many residents are interested in earning money through small businesses that provide services, sell crafts and other homemade goods or operate on the Internet.

City Council members are poised Tuesday to approve a project labor agreement with the Napa-Solano Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, to cover virtually all work associated with Fairfield's train station project.

Potential job candidates will have an opportunity to impress recruiters Monday at the Fairfield-Suisun School District Recruitment and Hiring Fair.

Officer Randy Pratt from the Solano County Sheriff's office gave the FaST Lions an update on the K-9 Unit, saying it takes about $7,000 to $10,000 to train a dog.

Central and southern Solano County cities 25 years ago agreed they didn't want to grow into a Los Angeles-like blur of homes, stores, businesses and industries.

Firefighters quickly put out a fire that may have been started by illegal fireworks in Fairfield on Wednesday evening, fire officials said.

Unfortunately, I hadn't had the chance to be a part of one in a long time, but I did this year in the Fairfield Independence Day parade.

Jehovah's Witnesses are inviting Fairfield residents to attend their annual convention later this month in Sacramento.

Ron Swisher, pastor, will speak on "The Rocks, The Thorns, and the Soil," from Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23.

Those qualities - and at least six years of progressively responsible administrative experience in municipal government - are among qualifications the city of Fairfield seeks in a new assistant city manager position that pays $155,000 to $175,000.

The mother of an ex-con who was shot and killed by Fairfield police in July 2013 filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the department and the two officers involved in the shooting.

Katherine Black, left, the steering committee chairperson for Benicians for a Safe and Healthy Community, displays her 'Stop Crude By Rail' sign as she talks with Anne Smith of Fairfield at a protest outside the Planning Commission meeting in Benicia on Thursday.

Expert medical testimony dominated the second day of a jury trial for a Suisun City foster father accused in the 2010 death of an infant in his care.

A $128,900 contract for Capturing Kids' Hearts training that includes costs for $300-an-hour calls to school district administrators - and the option for extra $3,000-a-day consulting - won approval Thursday without comment by Fairfield-Suisun School District trustees after a teacher and a resident questioned the pact.

Glen Gaviglio poses near his treehouse, left, and a picture from the LA Times in 1979 I don't remember the first time I saw the four-story treehouse on Walters Road.

Practices that include some peanut-free classrooms and schools will go before Fairfield-Suisun School District trustees for review after trustees said Thursday that a districtwide policy prohibiting peanut products couldn't be enforced - and heard that Fairfield schools served 183,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches this year.

A $44,000 contract with a Sacramento lobbyist - who represented the city from 1999 to 2007 - to advocate for legislation and additional revenue for Fairfield goes before City Council members Tuesday.

A state assemblyman, whose legislation easing enforcement of criminal trespassing laws against property squatters spurred Suisun City's request to be included in the law's pilot program, says "people taking advantage of middle class America" led to his legislative bill.

Air Force Airman Rio Cornell D. Golo graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio.