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FAIRFIELD — Solano County cities will welcome four new mayors in the coming weeks – two in Suisun City. The Nov. 8 election results will not be official until the Solano County Registrar of Voters certifies the election Nov. 30. However, John Gardner, assistant registrar of voters, said Thursday that all the in-person, mail-in and provisional ballots have been counted except for a handful that have not been verified, and those still coming in from other counties. “We are just trying to get them resolved and counted, and are reaching out to all those voters,” Gardner said, adding that deadline is Nov. 28. It is not yet clear how long Larry Brumfield will serve as the next Suisun City mayor. He will fill the remaining weeks, days, hours or even minutes of the term vacated by Lori Wilson when she was elected to the state’s 11th Assembly District office. Wilson, D-Suisun City, won a special election in April to fill in the final months of the term vacated by Jim Frazier, and won a full-term in a runoff election Nov. 8 against Jenny Callison of Vacaville. Alma Hernandez, who currently serves as the vice mayor in Suisun City, will take over full-time when the oath of office ceremony is announced. She beat
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FAIRFIELD — Teenager Jack Flynn, according to the unofficial Nov. 8 election results, will be the newest member of the Fairfield-Suisun School District board of trustees. The former student trustee for the Solano Community College District unseated Trustee Area 5 incumbent Jonathan R. Richardson. Returning to the board as unchallenged incumbents are See Boards, Page A8
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Shelia Carter, left, and Marissa Marzo-Holland help balance the poll places at the Government Center in Fairfield, Thursday.
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SUISUN CITY — Lori Wilson has gone through three elections in eight months – all for the same office. The Democrat from Suisun City gets a break from that until June 2024. Wilson, who represents the 11th Assembly District, will be sworn in for a full two-year term on Dec. 5. “I think the first emotion is relief because it has been three elections in eight months
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in next year includes 4th District Supervisor John Vasquez, who was unchallenged and will begin his fifth term on the county board. But he is not the longest standing elected official. That designation belongs to Charles Lomeli, the county treasurer-tax collector-county clerk, who started the first of what will now be his seventh fouryear term in 1999. Other elected county office-holders to start new terms are AuditorController Phyllis Taynton; Superintendent of Schools Lisette EstrellaHenderson and Assessor-Recorder Glenn Zook, who replaces Marc Tonnesen. All were unchallenged in June. Eight Superior Court See Sheriff, Page A8
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FAIRFIELD — All the recent attention may have been on the Nov. 8 election, but there are a number of primary winners and unchallenged candidates who are returning to the spotlight for their oaths of office, too. That includes Solano County Sher- ABRAMS iff-Coroner Thomas Ferrara and District Attorney Krishna Abrams, who won their June primary elections outright with 70.48% and 61.18% of the votes, respectively. Ferrara, who was FERRARA first appointed by the Board of Supervisors in 2012, will begin his 12th year in office Jan. 3, and Abrams will begin her third four-year term. Other Solano County officials who will be sworn
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FAIRFIELD — Measure S for the first time Thursday went over the top and was on its way to passage based on updated vote counts in Solano and Napa counties. The $249.6 million FairfieldSuisun School District facilities bond had 19,514 (55.01%) yes votes to 15,962 (44.99%) no votes, the elections offices in Solano and Napa county report. Results are unofficial until certified. It was a long slog for Measure S to reach the required 55% yes vote for passage. A majority of voters in
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