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FAIRFIELD — The opening of schools and the usual push to have students get there immunizations has not resulted in a big push for Covid-19 vaccine shots. “They are catching up very rapidly with the other vaccina-
tions that are required,” said Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health officer. Many children had fallen behind because of the pandemic. But Matyas, relying on observations from the county clinics, said the reason why parents are not getting the Covid vaccine is the same reason they are not
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FAIRFIELD — The official start to the construction phase of a three-home Solano Napa Habitat for Humanity project got underway Wednesday with a ceremony to break ground.
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The affordable homes are being built on Fairfield surplus property on Woolner Avenue, sold by the city’s Housing Authority to Habitat. It has taken five years to get to this point. The Housing Authority sold the property for $0 due to
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An Indica strain named #Freebritney (buds) is on display during the soft opening for Embarc in Fairfield, Feb. 8. bis plants,” the agency reported in a statement released Thursday. “This effort has removed more than $1 billion worth of potentially harmful and often untested cannabis products from the market and eliminated 120 illegal firearms from the hands of criminal enterprises. The team has also recovered $2.3 million in illegally obtained assets.” The Vacaville Police Department reported that while it would take See Illegal, Page A8
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From left, Fairfield City Councilmembers Chuck Timm, Catherine Moy, Doriss Panduro and Mayor Harry Price participate in groundbreaking ceremony for the Solano-Napa Habitat for Humanity Woolner Build, Wednesday.
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getting flu shots for their children, either. “We are not getting a general objections to Covid vaccinations, but to the number of (shots),” Matyas said. So parents are asking what is actually required and trying to limit the number
FAIRFIELD — One of the promoted draws to legalizing recreational marijuana use was that it would curtail the illegal pot trade. Opponents called that a fantasy then, and the state Department of Cannabis Control has numbers to show the illegal market still thrives. The state agency has reported it has seized $1 billion worth of marijuana from illicit operations in the past 13 months. That does not include any other law enforcement operations, including those in Solano County. “Over the last 13 months, the department’s law enforcement team has led and assisted other agencies in the service of 232 search warrants, seized more than half a million pounds of illegal product, and eradicated over 1.4 million canna-
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