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Mudslides have closed roads to Mix, Gates canyons Todd R. Hansen

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SUISUN CITY — The City Council worked late into the night Tuesday to trim the list of six candidates for the vacant council seat to three, and possibly appoint someone to fill the post. That process was still taking place at press time. The candidates are Anthony Adams, Herbert Dardon, Katrina Garcia, Steven Olry, Amit Pal and Jonathan Richardson. Garcia was a candidate in the

November election but did not win either of the available seats. But as a candidate in November she received an automatic pass to the final six. She is also a member of the city’s Public Safety and Emergency Management Committee. Adams was appointed in 2019 to fill a council vacancy created by then-Councilwoman Lori Wilson’s election as mayor, but lost his bid for election. Richardson in November lost his seat on the Fairfield-Suisun School District’s governing board. He is a state peace officer and businessman. Orly

serves on the city’s Public Safety and Emergency Management Committee and on the Environment and Climate Committee. Pal is a former planning commissioner. Dardon works in telecommunications for Verizon Wireless. There were 12 candidates who applied. One withdrew, and the council last week pared that list to the six semifinalists. The plan Tuesday was to cut that number in half and potentially appoint one. The vacancy was created when Councilwoman Alma Hernandez was elected in November as mayor.

FAIRFIELD — Roads into Mix and Gates canyons will remain closed for an extended period of time due to landslides. “We continue to deal with impacts from the storms even though we have blue skies,” acting Office of Emergency Services Manager Robyn Rains told the Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. She said the focus is on recovery, and to keep a close watch on reclamation district levees hit by the recent King tides, which describe high lunar tides, in this case, 3 to 4 feet high. The board was told there were more than 300 areas posted for flooding during the storms, more than 30 roads were closed at the height

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Solano supervisors distribute $6M in federal pandemic relief funding Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday approved $6 million in federal pandemic relief funding – $4 million previously approved for broadband and digital equity projects, and $2 million as

bridge funding for seven nonprofits. Supervisors Erin Hannigan and Mitch Mashburn wanted the county to look at other funding sources to help those nonprofits that were not selected, but could be forced to shut down without some kind of funding.

One of those could be Opportunity House. Executive Director Colleen Berumen told the board the organization – currently housing 24 individuals, nine of whom are children – may have to shut its doors at the end of June. County Administrator Bill Emlen said his staff

is already discussing possible options given that 12 of the 19 applicants who went to the review panel were not selected, but the need remains great. The requests more than tripled the amount available. Hannigan also noted an effort has to be See Funding, Page A8

of the event, and the county experienced 34 mudslides. “If you see the slides (at the canyons), they are pretty nasty,” said Matt Tuggle, engineering manager for the county. The staff said they were pretty happy with the cooperation among jurisdictions, especially the state and railroad when it came to clearing debris from Suisun Creek. However, Tuggle suggested the county may need to reach some agreements with those agencies so more preventive work is done in anticipation of larger storm events. Rains also told the board the county has yet to qualify for federal relief funding, adding the county does not know what criteria it needs to meet because the Federal Emergency Management Agency does not publish its damage thresholds.

The U.S. Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.’s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant’s ad-technology business over alleged illegal monopolization of the digital advertising market. “The lawsuit we have filed today seeks to hold Google to account for what we allege are its longstanding monopolies in digital advertising technologies that content creators use to sell ads and advertisers use to buy

ads on the open Internet,” said the Justice Department’s antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter in a news conference Tuesday announcing the suit. New York, California and Virginia were among the states that signed on to the complaint, which was filed in federal court in Virginia. Google said in blog post that the lawsuit “attempts to pick winners and losers in the highly competitive advertising technology sector. The case “largely duplicates an unfounded lawsuit by the Texas See Google, Page A8

State reeling from mass shootings: ‘Too much bloodshed’ As mourners were gathering Monday evening for a candlelight vigil in Monterey Park for 11 people killed by a gunman at a dance studio, word spread of another mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. Siu Fong, a Monterey Park retiree who volunteers at the Langley Senior Center, knew two of the victims of that shooting. With another spasm of violence less than two days later, she was left wondering: What is happening in California? “I would say there

needs to be a little bit more gun control,” she said. “Of course, a lot of people say they need guns to protect themselves, but the thing is, maybe they need stronger background checks. I don’t want people going to gun shops to get guns.” California is reeling from three mass shootings carried out in one week. Six people were found fatally shot inside a home in Goshen on Jan. 16 in a case police believe could be tied to organized crime. On Saturday night, 72-year-old Huu Can Tran walked into the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in

Monterey Park and opened fire, killing 11. He then went to a second dance club in Alhambra but was disarmed. Police think jealousy over a personal dispute might have been the motive in the attack

but emphasize that the investigation is continuing. Tran carried a 9 mm MAC-10 when he walked into the Monterey Park dance hall about 10:20 p.m. Saturday and began spraying bullets as frightened

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