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State watch: No new flu hospital admissions reported during the pandemic, and three flu-related deaths since the surveillance program began. Additionally, there were 20 Solano County residents in area hospitals Thursday with positive coronavirus tests, down from 39 a week earlier, with three patients in intensive care units with the disease compared to five on Jan. 12, the county reported. The total number of Covid-19 cases for the pandemic was up 204 to 117,081, with 192 of those new cases actually occurring in the
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FAIRFIELD — Kaiser Permanente, part of the state influenza surveillance program, on Thursday reported no new hospital admissions since the last update Jan. 12. Additionally, the daily average for coronavirus cases dropped from 56 to 27.43 in that same seven-day window, the Solano County Public Health Division reported. The 10-day daily average dropped from 58.7 Jan. 12 to 37.5. There have been 441 Covid-related deaths
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A worker makes preparations for an exterior renovation of a building wall along Texas Street in Downtown Fairfield, Thursday. Vice Mayor Pam Bertani announced
at the City Council meeting this week that she and Mayor Catherine Moy will conduct a “listening tour” through the six districts of the city.
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A student wears a face mask at Solano College in Fairfield, Thursday.
Police investigate 2 killings in as many days in Vallejo Glen Faison
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VALLEJO — Police are investigating a pair of homicides that occurred within hours of one another this week in the city. A shooting Tuesday night left one man dead. Less than 30 hours later, a woman was found dead in a marshy area of the city. The killings represent the first and second reported homicides of the year in Vallejo. City police responded shortly before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a person shot on the 100 block of Richardson Drive. Officers who arrived there found a man suffering from at least
one gunshot wound. The man was transported to a nearby hospital, where police report he died as a result of his injuries. The man’s identity was withheld pending family notification by the Solano County Coroner’s Office, police report. His age and city of residence were also withheld. Police are also investigating the death of a woman found dead late Wednesday in a marshy area of the city as a suspected homicide. Officers responding to a report shortly before 11:45 p.m. of a person in a marsh area near the 200 block of Wilson Avenue found the woman See Killings, Page A8
FAIRFIELD — Vice Mayor Pam Bertani announced at the City Council meeting this week that she and Mayor Catherine Moy will be conducting a “listening tour” through the six districts of the city. “We will be listening to residents’ concerns; we will be talking about some plans we have for the city moving forward,” Bertani said at Tuesday’s council gathering. “It’s a real opportunity for the public to address us in a venue where we are not limited by time; where you don’t have three minutes to make your point and then you
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are out of time,” she said. “We will be listening and we will be sharing some action plans we have for each of the districts as well.” Bertani, in a phone interview Thursday, noted the need for a beautification campaign, the need to boost Heart of Fairfield efforts
and most especially, the need to work toward the “zero tolerance” policy with regard to homelessness. She said Fairfield needs to look clean and tidy to make other goals possible; the old Bank of America building at Texas and Great Jones streets will be used as a centerpiece to push the Heart of Fairfield vision forward; and there needs to be collaboration with the District Attorney’s Office and other resources to get people off the streets, voluntarily or otherwise. She called homelessness an issue of “public safety and human dignity.” See Tour, Page A8
Latest drought map places Solano in ‘moderate drought’ Todd R. Hansen
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FAIRFIELD — Solano County remains in a “moderate drought,” but that is an improvement over just a few months ago. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday, Solano and the other eight Bay Area counties, as well as all or parts of 45 counties, are listed as being in a moderate drought. Del Norte County, located at the northwest corner of the state, was listed as being out of the drought entirely.
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Water flows along Suisun Creek underneath Rockville Road in Fairfield, Jan. 13. “The long-term drought continues across California, the Great Basin and parts of
the Pacific Northwest. However, a barrage of atmospheric river events – streams of mois-
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ture in the atmosphere that transport water vapor from the tropics – has reduced the drought intensity over the past few weeks,” the U.S. Drought Monitor states in a summary for the West. “In California . . . improvements were made along the Northern Coast, around the Delta and along the South Coast region. While precipitation over much of the state was over 300% of normal over the previous two weeks (2 to 12.5 inches, depending on location), See Map, Page A8
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