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As field workers ambled through a California cornfield in 1980, they made a gruesome discovery: a slain woman’s body. Though the woman was identified 12 years later as 21-year-old Holly Ann Campiglia of New Jersey, the suspect in her killing eluded investigators for decades more, the Solano County Sheriff’s Office said in a July 16 Facebook post.

Days after a Solano County report slammed a plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaires to build a utopian new city from scratch near Fairfield, the company behind the “California Forever” project has scrapped the ballot initiative it was to put to county voters in November. The report released...

Former Vacaville attorney James Glenn Haskell, acquitted on June 13 of all but one allegation in a child sex assault and abuse trial, had the final count dismissed earlier this week in Solano County Superior Court. However, the oldest of his four former adopted children, on behalf of herself and...

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A Silicon Valley-backed initiative to build a green city for up to 400,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area on land now zoned for agriculture won't be on the Nov. 5 ballot after all, officials said Monday. The California Forever campaign qualified for the...

Heh. Four months ahead of the November election, and following a damning report by Solano County staff, California Forever is pulling their ballot initiative to rezone an eastern swath of the county so they can build their utopian "city of yesterday." The report was prepared for the Solano County Board...

FAIRFIELD — California Forever officials announced Monday they are ending their campaign to place the East Solano Plan on the Nov. 5 ballot. "On July 22, an agreement between Mitch Mashburn, chair of the Board of Supervisors of Solano County, and Supervisor for District 5, and Jan Sramek, founder & CEO of California Forever, was announced. California Forever will work with the county to prepare the Environmental Impact Report and Development Agreement over the next two years, and then bring the full package back for approval in 2026," a joint statement between California Forever and Mashburn said.

WOODLAND – Two teens were arrested after police chased a stolen vehicle from Yolo County into Solano County overnight, police said. Early Saturday morning, at about midnight, officers monitoring Flock learned a stolen vehicle entered Woodland. After confirming it was a stolen vehicle out of Woodland, police they located it at an AM/PM gas station on Ashley Avenue and W. Main Street.

On June 25, 2024, the Solano County Board of Supervisors directed County staff to prepare a report on the proposed “Rezoning of 17,500 acres of Land in East Solano County to Allow the Development of a New Community” Initiative, aka California Forever’s East Solano Plan. The report,...

[BenIndy: Save next Tues. at 2pm to hear more about this report and share a comment before Solano’s Board of Supervisors. We are sharing more information about this and more soon.]. The initiative may lead to as much as 94,000 temporary and permanent jobs during the first and build-out...

The killer of a 21-year-old woman found dead in a cornfield in Dixon in 1980 was sentenced to prison this week in a case that had remained cold for decades. Herman Lee Hobbs, a 76-year-old tied to a long history of violent crimes, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the murder of Holly Campiglia, according to the Solano County Sheriff’s Office.

SOLANO CO.: UPDATE: LOCAL OFFICIALS APPLAUD WITHDRAWAL OF CALIFORNIA FOREVER INITIATIVE

[BenIndy: Here are some initial takes on the report from the Vallejo Times-Herald. All emphasis (bolded sections) was added by the BenIndy and was not in the original article.]. Vallejo Times-Herald, by Nick McConnell and Matthew Brown, July 19, 2024. Also published in The Reporter. Solano County raised concerns about...

I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing my friend and media colleague Tony Wade recently; he visited the KUIC studios to chat up his latest book, “Growing Up In Vacaville” (available on Amazon, or through Tony’s website: www.tonywadeaccidentalhistorian.com). Tony was a local freelance reporter for many years, having arrived in Fairfield back in 1976; he has a unique perspective on what it was like growing up in Solano County from the mid-1970’s until today. Tony is fond of saying “I showed up when I was 12, and I never left.” His first book, “Growing Up In Fairfield,” introduces the reader to a cavalcade of shops, neighborhoods and hang-outs that each hold a special place in the collective community heart. That first book, which I highly recommend, is a wonderful tutorial for folks (like me) who didn’t grow up in Solano County but nevertheless have adopted the region as a second home. As he does in his first book, Tony uses “Growing Up In Vacaville” to take the reader on a journey through Vacaville’s historic hot-spots, regional points of interest, and quirky connections to celebrity culture (yes, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has a connection to Buckingham Charter School in Vacaville!) Tony made clear in our recent interview that his book is more historical than autobiographical…you didn’t actually have to have grown up in Vacaville to appreciate, and be endlessly entertained by the stories in the book. In fact, Tony challenges readers to correct him (through his aforementioned website) if they feel he got any of the historical facts wrong: “I make clear that I’m an ACCIDENTAL historian.” Oh…and he graciously mentions Your Hometown Station history on pages 94-95 🙂

DAVIS, Calif. (FOX26) — A man driving a stolen Camaro was arrested Wednesday night following a high-speed chase from Vacaville to Davis, west of Sacramento. The Vacaville Police Department called the California Highway Patrol and other law enforcement in the area to report the stolen Chevrolet Camaro had entered the city.

SOLANO CO.: CALIFORNIA FOREVER PULLS MEASURE FROM BALLOT, PLANS FOR 2026 COMEBACK

FAIRFIELD — Despite local jobs holding steady – and even increasing in some sectors – the number of Solano County residents working fell and the unemployment rate jumped over 5%. There were 194,200 Solano residents working in May, and just 193,000 in June.

A man was killed in his vehicle Wednesday night in Napa County, near the Solano County border, when the driver of another vehicle allegedly ran a red light and crashed into him, according to the California Highway Patrol. In the crash reported at 11:13 p.m., a 66-year-old man from Sparta,...