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Police arrest Fairfield man they suspect killed his wife No details about that evidence were released “to preserve the integFAIRFIELD — A rity of the ongoing 61-year-old Fairfield investigation.” man has been arrested in The department connection with the sus- put out an alert Thurspected killing of his wife. day morning asking for G r e g o r y the public’s help Hobson was in locating the arrested by couple. They had Fairfield police last been seen in officers about their truck near 4 p.m. Thursday Elk Grove on a near Highway Flock camera. 12 and Walters Anyone who Road He was may have booked into seen Gregory HOBSON Solano County Hobson, Anu jail on suspicion Anand Hobson of murder, the or witnessed police said. any suspicious Police located activity involvHobson and their ing a 2021 Toyota 2021 Toyota Tacoma, license Tacoma, but Mrs. plate 21170G3, is Hobson was not asked to call the with her husband. Fairfield Police Anu Anand ANAND HOBSON Department’s Hobson, 53, of Investigations Fairfield, had not been Unit at 707-428-7600,” the located as of early Friday, statement said. but “based on evidence The death of Anu collected thus far, police Anand Hobson is the believe she has been city’s first suspected homicide of 2023. killed,” the police said.

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Chamber leader says Black History Month can serve a great purpose Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Tamuri Richardson doesn’t like to make excuses about the success or failures of Black-owned businesses – or, for that matter, color the Black culture in one shade. But it is hard to escape that 41% of those businesses, across the nation, were shut down due to the pandemic – and pointedly, because those businesses often did not have the same access to resources others did. It is another part of a history that can be scarred and painful, but rich with innovation, creativity, achievement and culture. And while the past cannot change, Richardson said the future can and should change. But that only happens when Black history is viewed as American history, and moving forward means moving forward together. Black History Month, Richardson said, can play a part in that evolution. “Black History Month is many things for many people because we are not a monolithic culture,” said Richardson, a businesswoman, author and executive direc-

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Fairfield family celebrates ancestor’s military honor Todd R. Hansen

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FAIRFIELD — Three-year-old Orson Sanchez will learn some day about what his great-greatgreat-great grandfather, Orson W. Bennett, did to earn a Medal of Honor during the Battle of Honey Hill in the American Civil War. “The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to First Lieutenant Orson W. Bennett, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 30 November Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic 1864, while serving with Company A, 102d Colored Infantry, in action A Medal of Honor, which was received by Orson W. Bennett, on display at at Honey Hill, South Carolina. the Rowland Freedom Center, in Vacaville, Friday. After several unsuccessful efforts to recover three pieces of aban- had been left by early attacks ous conduct during the war” – of doned artillery, First Lieutenant in which 89 men were killed, the U.S. Volunteers on Sept. 30, Bennett gallantly led a small force 629 wounded and 28 went missing, 1865. He received the medal on fully 100 yards in advance of the according to written accounts. March 9, 1887. Bennett served until the end of Union lines and brought in the Capts. George E. Gouraud and guns, preventing their capture,” the war and was mustered out as Thomas F. Ellsworth also received captain of Company A and as brevet the citation reads. The cannon and other weapons major – “for gallant and meritoriSee Honor, Page A9

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Ta m u r i R i c h a r d s o n , President of Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce, sits in her office building in Fairfield, Wednesday. tor of the Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce since June 2021. She was a board member before that. “And Black History Month doesn’t have value if it’s only for us,” she said. Richardson said perhaps the biggest stumbling block to moving forward is that the wrongs of the past have not been adequately acknowledged, and certainly not addressed. “Forty acres and a mule” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s

ATLANTA — Former President Jimmy Carter, the Georgia native who is the longest living president in U.S. history, has decided against any further medical treatment and has entered home hospice care, the Carter Center said Saturday. “After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,” the

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Atlanta-based center said. “He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.” The Carter Center didn’t elaborate on the former president’s condition, but the 98-year-old has endured a host of illnesses as he’s outlived two presidents who succeeded him along with his own vice president. In 2015, Carter survived a melanoma diagnosis that later

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spread to his brain. The discovery followed the removal of a lesion on his liver that took about 10% of the organ. He also suffered several falls in 2019, including one requiring 14 stitches, and other health scares that have required hospitalization. He and his wife Rosalynn have scaled back their public schedules in recent years, and they spent much of the coronavirus pandemic at their home in the southwest Georgia town of Plains, where they both grew up. The town, with a population of about 800 people,

is roughly 130 miles south of Atlanta. He didn’t attend President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, though Biden visited Plains a few months later to rekindle their long friendship. Biden was a first-term U.S. senator from Delaware in 1976 when he became one of the first elected officials outside Georgia to pick Carter in the White House race. The 98-year-old became the longest-living American president in See Carter, Page A9

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