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Solano History Exploration Center seeks new home Amy Maginnis-Honey
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SUISUN CITY — A historic part of Suisun City remains for sale. The Lawler House, now surrounded by a fence, was also home to the Solano History Exploration Center, which is now in search of a new home. The house at 718 Main St. was declared surplus property in September by the City Council. It was appraised a few years ago at about $325,000 with an estimated repair bill of $100,000 to $125,000. It was moved to its present location on a barge in 1979. Suisun City continued to operate the Lawler House as a commercial property until 2010. At one time it was home to offices and an art gallery as well as the history center. All City Council members expressed concern over letting a piece of history go, but also noted repair costs had to be considered. The council, acting as the Successor Agency to the former Redevelopment Agency, declared it surplus with the intent to sell as it is required to do under Redevelopment Dissolution laws. The city received two communications challenging the validity of the surplus designation. The first letter noted that the Lawler House deed indicates that the title owner of the Lawler House is Suisun City, and not the Successor Agency and, therefore, the determination of the city as the Successor Agency declaring the Lawler House as surplus property was invalid. The second letter is from the Solano See Center, Page A8
Mashburn reflects back
Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2021)
Solano Supervisor Mitch Mashburn, Dec. 30, 2021.
on 1st year as county supervisor
‘I wanted to make a dent in homelessness in the county. But when I put my hand up (to take the oath of office), we were in the throes of the pandemic.’ Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2021)
Todd R. Hansen
thansen@dailyrepublic.net
FAIRFIELD — The learning curve so many first-year county supervisors must navigate was never really part of Mitch Mashburn’s mindset as he sought and won the District 5 seat on the county board. After all, he had spent 32 years in the Solano County Sheriff’s Office – with a wide range of jobs and administrative duties – and he had served 10 years on the Vacaville City Council. He felt he was familiar with the inner workings of government, and particularly the centerpiece
— Mitch Mashburn
of budgets. But what Mashburn never anticipated was how difficult it would be to traverse the bureaucracies at the local, state and federal levels of government. That starts with the state and the federal agencies’ involvement in county programs and services – involvement dictated by the fact those agencies are paying the freight and want the county to account for expenditures, seemingly, at times, in triplicate. “I knew it existed, but I thought it would be a lot easier to navigate the See Year, Page A8
The Lawler House in Suisun City was proclaimed surplus property in September 2021.
Fauci: CDC may add Covid test requirement for shorter isolation The Washington Post Anthony Fauci said Sunday that U.S. health officials are considering recommending that Americans get tested for the coronavirus before going back to work under the shortened isolation protocol they recently introduced. Appearing on ABC News’s “This Week,” Fauci acknowledged the backlash over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reducing the recommended isolation period Al Drago/Bloomberg after a positive coronaPresident Joe Biden’s virus test from 10 days m e d i c a l a d v i s e r, to five. Fauci said offiAnthony Fauci. cials may soon add a testing component at the end of the five-day period. The CDC’s shortened isolation protocol applies only to asymptomatic people. “There has been some concern about why we don’t ask people at that five-day period to get tested. That is something that is now under consideration,” said Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. “The CDC is very well See Fauci, Page A8 INDEX Arts B4 | Business B7 | Classifieds B6 Comics A5, B3 | Crossword A4, B4 | Food B2 Opinion A6 | Sports B1 | TV Daily A5, B3
Genealogy societies offer option for cracking those ‘brick walls’ Susan Hiland
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VALLEJO — John Watson is working on a mystery. The president of the Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia received a box a few months ago filled with photographs and he is trying to find the relatives of the man who owned the photos. “I found the guy had lived in Solano County and he had two children, but they are all dead. I am trying to find any living relatives that would want the photos.” The person who brought in the box worked at the retirement home where the owner had died, but couldn’t just toss out the photos. This mystery might take years to solve. Thankfully, Watson has access to the Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia’s library, which is situated on the second floor of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum in downtown Vallejo, and is
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John Watson is president and librarian of the Genealogy Society of Vallejo-Benicia. no novice at researching family histories. “We have books from across the country, so it is not just about Solano County,” he said. The collection has grown to more than 1,500 books since opening in 1993. It is open to members and to the public from 1 to 3:30 p.m. every Tuesday and the second Thursday of each month. Other times may be arranged by appointment. “We aren’t open like before the pandemic, but
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if you call us we can do some research for you,” Watson said.
They have access to the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum’s library as well. This is not the first project on which Watson or other members of the society have worked. Over the years, several projects conducted by members have resulted in an impressive amount of information being gathered from creating an obituary collection of current obituaries from the Vallejo Times-Herald and the Benicia Herald See Walls, Page A8
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