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Solano adds 11 cases as week ends on positive note Glen Faison gfaison@dailyrepublic.net
FAIRFIELD — Solano County added just 11 confirmed cases Friday of Covid-19, fewer than half the number recorded Thursday, a continuation of a trend that generally started the previous week. New confirmed cases were added in Vallejo, Fairfield, Rio Vista and Vacaville, Solano Public Health reports. S ol a no C ou nt y added 21 new cases May 14, had a daily average of 12.33 cases May 15 through Monday,
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and posted 15 new cases Tuesday. There were 60 cases recorded Wednesday, although most were from a review of records dating to January and February rather than actual new test results that day. Twenty-five new cases were recorded Thursday. Covid-19 vaccinations are available in Solano See Cases, Page A9
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Daisy Vega receives her Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccination shot at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfield, Friday.
Dodd to host panel on mental health during pandemic Glen Faison
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FAIR F IELD — Sen. Bill Dodd will host a virtual town hall June 1 on mental health during the pandemic featuring a panel discussion with experts from Stanford University, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Napabased Mentis. The town hall will be streamed live over multiple channels and broadcast on KSVY Sonoma. Panelists will take live and submitted questions. Panelists for the
session hosted by Dodd, D-Napa, include Dr. Cerrene Cervantes, executive director of NAMI Solano County; Dr. Rona Hu, medical director of the Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Stanford Hospital; and Rob Weiss, executive director of Mentis. NAMI is an acronym for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, which has a chapter in Solano County. People’s mental health became a concern after forced lockdowns in March 2020 kept people See Dodd, Page A9
LIBERTY ISLAND — A fisherman who has been working the Shag Slough for years pulled his line out of the water Tuesday, made his way up the levee slope and across a gated, concrete bridge to get to the other side of the slough. Maybe the bite would be better over there. A small group of people had set up a little camp along the opposite shoreline, and a number of anglers were parked along the levee road. All that access – some illegal by the letter of the law – would go away under the proposed $118.6 million Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Management Project. The state plans to break the levee in nine locations to create 3,000 acres of tidal wetlands. It has asked the county to vacate that
Water flows along the Shag Slough, Tuesday. The Delta Stewardship Council will consider the Lookout Slough Project on Thursday. section of Liberty Island Road that runs atop the levee. Taylor Dahlke, the leader of a group fighting to maintain land access to Shag Slough, the Liberty
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