The Vallejo City Unified School District came "this close" to losing its 45-year-old Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program for lack of interest, but signed up the required number of students just under the wire. Until about two weeks ago, there were some 80 students enrolled in the Jesse Bethel High School program, which needs at least 100, officials said.
It was idle curiosity that lured Steve Dunsky into a 60-seat theater during a recent trip to Connecticut, catching the 1 hour, 38-minute documentary, “RBG.” Good thing the Empress Film Club coordinator trusts his instincts. The film - chronicling the career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - was impressive enough for Dunsky to book a screening Aug. 9 in Vallejo.
Nine census tracts in Fairfield and Vallejo have been approved for the Opportunity Zone program created within the $1.3 trillion budget recently adopted by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump. The programs use three possible benefits from capital gains to encourage development in areas that meet a certain low-income standard and poverty rate.
Sen. Bernie Sanders during a campaign stop in Vallejo, Calif. ahead of California's June 2016 presidential primary.
Washington >> Mike Thompson , Vallejo's representative in Congress, has submitted a letter to Secretary of Defense James Mattis urging him to begin the process of renaming military installations across the country that are named for Confederate figures, Thompson's office announced Monday. The letter is co-signed by 21 other members of Congress, including House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith .
A 53-year-old Vallejo man who authorities suspect spent nearly 10 years collecting and sharing child pornography was sentenced Friday in Sacramento to seven years in federal prison. Robert P. McGee, 53, a former painter on the Golden Gate Bridge, pleaded no contest to distributing child pornography in an October 2016 plea deal.
Authorities scrambled Wednesday to contain and clean up a leak on the San Pablo Bay caused by an oil tanker berthed at a marine terminal belonging to the Phillips 66 refinery. The leak left two sheens on the bay, including one just over a mile long by 40 yards wide on the water in the northern San Pablo Bay area, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, the lead agency.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will be back in the Bay Area on Sunday, making stops in Vallejo and Sacramento in a last-ditch effort to sew up support before California's primary on Tuesday. Clinton will first appear at the Good Day Cafe in Vallejo at 3:15 p.m. for a meeting with community leaders, similar to the chat she had with small business owners at House of Chicken and Waffles in Oakland in May. While her competitor Bernie Sanders has made waves with impassioned speeches and huge rallies, Clinton has held quieter events that attempt to hone in on both national and hyperlocal issues with the help of local politicians.
Supporters of independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders were treated to a rousing introduction Wednesday afternoon by none other that Cenk Uygur , founder and host of pioneering internet news show The Young Turks and an enthusiastic Bernie Sanders supporter. At a yuge rally in Vallejo, California, Uygur whipped the crowd up by explaining what it is that supporters love about Bernie Sanders, and along the way, repurposed a catchphrase that's very popular with supporters of Hillary Clinton : Fifty years ago, when he fought for desegregation in Chicago, he didn't do that for political calculation.