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Work starts on closed Solano canyon roads With estimated cost of $1.1M Todd R. Hansen
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VACAVILLE — It will likely take more than a month for all the repairs to be completed on Mix Canyon and Gates Canyon roads – stormdamage projects that triggered an evacuation warning due to the hazardous road conditions and will cost more than $1 million to repair. Gordon N. Ball Inc. of Alamo was awarded the $1.1 million contract to place retaining walls and rebuild the road failures on 40 feet of Mix Canyon Road and 60 feet of Gates
Canyon Road, James Bezek, assistant director of the Department of Resource Management, said in an email response to the Daily Republic. Work began Saturday. “Mix Canyon Road has experienced a downslope slip at 1.2 miles west of Pleasants Valley Road. The road is in danger of significant slope failure,” Bezek noted in his email. The work will include removing the slip debris, excavating a footing to solid material, installing an aggregate subbase footing, installing an See Roads, Page A9
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Fire Engineer Jian Eddinger salutes after receiving her badge during the Suisun City Fire Department Badge
Pinning ceremony at the Kroc Center, Friday. Eddinger is Suisun City’s first full-time female firefighter.
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Memphis police shutter Scorpion unit involved in Nichols’ death The Washington Post Fallout from the brutal Memphis police beating of Tyre Nichols continued Saturday, as the department shut down the specialized unit that had included the officers charged with seconddegree murder in his death while a broadening web of investigations scrutinized additional local authorities. In a reversal, the Memphis police announced Saturday that it was dismantling the
Scorpion unit that had employed the five officers in the case. Only a day earlier, the Memphis police chief had defended the Scorpion unit, saying it “did good work” at combating crime but that this particular group of officers “went off the rails that night.” Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, was stopped while driving in early January by police officers with that unit. Video footage released See Fallout, Page A9
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Suisun City firefighters make their entrance during the Suisun City Fire Department Badge Pinning ceremony at the Kroc Center in Suisun City, Friday.
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Fairfield-Suisun trustees prepare to tackle plans for new Measure S money Susan Hiland SHILAND@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET
FAIRFIELD — A subcommittee of the Fairfield-Suisun School District’s governing board will begin work soon to develop plans for how best to spend nearly $250 million in facilities property tax funding approved by voters
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SUISUN CITY — The Fire Department welcomed eight of the newest members to the family Friday night with the ringing of a bell. Division Chief Brian Kermoade; Capts. Ryan Esparza, Japen Soto and Dean Martin; and Engineers Justin Duchscher, Jason Vander Meer and Jian Eddinger, who is the city’s first female fire-
fighter, each received their badges from family members and then rang a bell that signaled their time on watch had come. The pinning ceremony was the final step into the Fire Department, with oaths administered Tuesday. Chief Brad Lopez spoke at the ceremony, saying the department has experienced a 42% increase in calls for service over
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