Issuu

Vanden boys advance to section title matchup B1

Bay Area Stage’s “A Game’s Afoot” a fine whodunit B6

FRIDAY | February 24, 2023 | $1.00

DAILYREPUBLIC.COM | Well said. Well read.

Solano to gear down Covid reporting State emergency expected to be lifted Todd R. Hansen

THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

FAIRFIELD — The state is expected to let the Covid-19 emergency expire Tuesday – and Solano County will end its weekly online reporting next week as well. The federal government is expected to lift the national emergency May 11. The total number of coronavirus cases in Solano County, as of Thursday, was 118,605, up 270 from the prior Thursday, and up from 117,338 cases Jan. 26, the county reported. There were no new deaths reported – with 441 Covid-related deaths in the county since the pandemic started – while the number of residents in area hospitals with a positive coronavirus test was at 12 with one patient in an intensive care unit

BY THE NUMBERS Solano County Covid-19 case reporting as of Feb. 23. Vallejo: 36,196 Fairfield: 31,999 Vacaville: 29,754 Suisun City: 8,250 Dixon: 5,561 Benicia: 4.928 Rio Vista: 1,686 Unincorporated Area: 231 Source: Solano County Public Health

with the disease. Of the recorded deaths, 264 occurred prior to vaccines being readily available to the general public July 1, 2021. And despite more cases being reported after that date, the number of deaths was 177. Dr. Bela Matyas, the county public health official, said there are several reasons for the trend of more cases and fewer

Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic file (2022)

Alina Adams, who was born in Vynnitsya, Ukraine, is photographed here, Feb. 24, 2022.

Violins of Hope – SAVED FROM THE HOLOCAUST –

coming to Solano

See Covid, Page A8

Todd R. Hansen

THANSEN@DAILYREPUBLIC.NET

Aaron Rosenblatt/Daily Republic

Pedestrians wearing face masks wait for a bus along Texas Street in Fairfield, Thursday.

Covid deaths top 100,000 in state Tribune Content Agency LOS ANGELES — It was three years ago this month that California documented its first known victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the pandemic's toll has breached a onceunthinkable level, with more than 100,000 deaths reported statewide, according to the California Department of Public Health. Unlike the first known victim – whose tragic brush with the coronavirus was recounted in detail during the pan-

demic's early days – we may never know the identity of the individual who represents the latest grim milestone in an era marked with them. "The heartache of having so many people die weighs heavily on all of us here at public health," Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. "I think it weighs equally heavily on everybody who lives in our county, in our state and our country and the world. Nobody, I think, anticipated this toll. See Deaths, Page A8

Courtesy photos

Two of the four violins that survived the Holocaust concentration camps that will be played by Alina Solodovnikova-Adams as part of the Violins of Hope tour coming to Solano County.

See Violins, Page A8

Probe: Train crew had little warning before Ohio wreck Tribune Content Agency PITTSBURGH — The Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3 had passed through three temperature sensors designed to alert problems like the hot bearing that eventually failed that day. But the only sensor, called a hot box detector, that registered a sufficiently high temperature to sound the alarm was the one less than a mile from

the accident site, according to preliminary findings from the National Transportation Safety Board, released Thursday. Although at least two videos taken from security cameras in Salem, Ohio – 20 miles west of the derailment site – showed the train had one car that glowed from the bottom, the hot box detector at that site assessed the temperature of the fiery bearing on the See Train, Page A8

WEATHER 50 | 34 Showers. Five-day forecast on A9.

3VJHS .PYS 2UV^Z 9LHS ,Z[H[L

Lucy Schaly/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

Six days after the Norfolk-Southern train derailment, work continues on the railroad in East Palestine, Ohio, Thursday.

WANT TO SUBSCRIBE? Call 427-6989.

— N A PA VA L L E Y —

Dr. David P. Simon, MD, FACS.

Sandra Ritchey-Butler Expires 2/28/2023

VACAVILLE — Four violins that survived the Holocaust concentration camps will be played by world renowned violinist Alina Solodovnikova-Adams as part of the Violins of Hope tour coming to Solano County. High school students in Vacaville and Fairfield will be able to attend the program March 2-3. A community performance is scheduled for 4 p.m. March 5 at Chabad of Solano in Vacaville. “Violins of Hope provides an opportunity to see some-

thing tangible that tells the story of the survival of the Jewish people of the greatest atrocity to befall us in modern history,” Amnon Weinstein, a master Israeli violin maker who founded Violins of Hope, said in a statement. “Especially with the rise of anti-Semitism in the world today, this lesson is especially important, and especially for the young.” Rabbi Chaim Zaklos of Chabad of Solano said the performance will have impact. “So this one is very powerful because it comes with

REALTOR® DRE# 01135124

707.592.6267 • sabutler14@gmail.com '2+%

Eye y Physician y & Surgeon, g , Col. ((Ret.), USAF Services include: • Routine Eye Exams • Comprehensive Ophthalmology • Glaucoma and Macular Degeneration Care • Diabetic Eye Exams • Dry Eye Treatment • Cataract Surgery • LASIK Surgery Now Accepting New Patients!

3260 Beard Rd #5 Napa • 707-681-2020 simoneyesmd.com