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Goats compete in the All Creatures Barnyard Races at the Solano County Fair at the Fairgrounds in Vallejo, Thursday.

Fair opens with salute to agriculture, fun for all ages

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VALLEJO — The 2023 Solano County Fair kicked off Thursday with free admission and an emphasis on agriculture, combining Ag Day with the annual event. A bevy of organizations – such as California Ag in the Classroom, Elmira 4-H, the local food bank, Pleasants Valley 4-H and the Community Animal Response Team – joined the Solano County Ag Department, the Solano County Farm Bureau. Vacaville FFA and Sustainable Solano were on hand. The firsts guests were greeted by rabbits, goats and other farm animals along the entrance. Fairgoers were free to pet the critters. Exposistion Hall was filed with a variety of activities including the chance to touch a real cow hide, a place to gather toy eggs in a plastic basket and play chess with a large plastic set. Jackie Cordero, 19 months, was at his first fair and played a giant light-bright game. “He’s a big fan

MIAMI — When a federal magistrate judge imposed a “special condition” on Donald Trump’s bond that he could not communicate with witnesses in his classified documents case in Miami, the former president’s defense attorney objected and said that it would be “unworkable” because

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Brightly colored fentanyl pills. brought it to the committee’s attention because fentanyl is killing a lot of people. She joined the full board in opposing the bill. Existing law imposes an additional term, and authorizes a trial court to impose a fine if a person is convicted of possessing for sale, or purchasing for purposes of sale, a certain weight of a substance containing heroin, cocaine base and cocaine. This bill adds fentanyl to the list. Supervisor Mitch Mashburn also opposed the bill, arguing that local jails are not equipped See Bills, Page A11

US, Iran inch toward understanding aimed at easing tensions Bloomberg News Amanda Jones, 4, of Vallejo makes a giant bubble at the Solano County Fair at the Fairgrounds in Vallejo, Thursday. of the animals,” said his mother Mandy Cordero. The petting zoo would most likely follow, then a visit with the goats. The family was visiting from southern California. Tammie LeBar, of Vallejo,

walked through McCormack Hall, home of the winning jams, quilts, photographs, paintings and more. She estimated she has been going the fair 15-20 years, before Covid-19 closed it down in 2020. See Fair, Page A11

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FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors supports legislation that would create the Fentanyl Addiction and Overdose Prevention Task Force, and another that would add fentanyl to the tracking and reporting duties of the State Threat Assessment Center. The board, however, rejected a third fentanylrelated bill that would have added years to sentences and fines. “I think it will be used to put more black and brown people in jail,” Supervisor Wanda Williams said of Assembly Bill 701, echoing similar equity issues raised by Supervisor Erin Hannigan, who likened it to the war on drugs and the disparity of punishment for crack cocaine. Hannigan sits on the Legislative Committee with Supervisor Monica Brown. They could not come up with a consensus on a recommendation to the board. Brown said she

some of them still interact with Trump every day. But defense attorney Todd Blanche was not just referring to Secret Service agents and Trump personnel, including one potential witness, co-defendant Walt Nauta, a former White House aide who still works for Trump as an assistant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Blanche

also briefly alluded to an unnamed lawyer still employed by Trump. “One of the key witnesses that we know is still the president’s lawyer,” Blanche said Tuesday in Miami federal court, without naming the attorney. “So a special condition that President Trump cannot communicate with his lawyer, obviously doesn’t work,

respectfully, your honor.” At Tuesday’s arraignment, Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman ruled as a condition that Trump and Nauta cannot communicate with witnesses about the case, asking the Justice Department’s special counsel to create a list of people who might testify at trial. The See Trump, Page A11

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WASHINGTON –— The U.S. and Iran are close to an informal understanding under which Tehran would free American prisoners and eventually limit its nuclear program, people familiar with the matter said. Negotiations through intermediaries in Oman and on the sidelines of United Nations meetings led to an initial agreement for Iran to free U.S. prisoners, while the U.S. would release payments owed to the Islamic Republic that were frozen by sanctions, according to officials with knowledge the talks. Diplomats are also pushing Iran to voluntarily limit its uranium-enrichment levels and boost its cooperation with international monitors in return for allowances to ship more crude, said one person familiar with the Iranian position. “There is some diplo-

macy in play,” said Mark Fitzpatrick, a former U.S. State Department official, who was in Vienna this week to meet with diplomats assigned to the International Atomic Energy Agency. “There will at least be a cease-fire put in place, they won’t escalate more.” The developments mark the best signs of progress between the two global rivals in several months, and follow heightened tensions over Iran’s nuclear program after a drop in international examinations and the detection of uranium particles just below weapons grade. But they’re also politically perilous for President Joe Biden, who will face severe blowback from Republicans, and even some Democrats, if he cuts even an informal deal with Iran heading into an election year. The first stage of the plan is already in train, with the U.S. making

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