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FAIRFIELD — Solano County plucked its next Veteran Services director from San Francisco. Al Sims, 50, has been hired and will begin his duties March 28, the county announced in an online posting on its website. He is a U.S. Army combat veteran. “I served in the first Gulf War as a radio operat

FAIRFIELD — The Solano County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday agreed to pay an additional $185,000 to Management Advisory Services to continue its consulting work on the Solano360 project at the fairgrounds in Vallejo. It was the fourth amendment to the MAS contract, taking the total to $434,000. Th

FAIRFIELD — Ted Puntillo has a busy itinerary for the years to come. A trip to Disney World is first on the list, but trips to Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore and the badlands of the upper plains will follow, as will a bayou trip up the Mississippi. Puntillo also has planned a trip to

FAIRFIELD — Solano County supervisors on Tuesday appointed Michelle Heppner as the interim director of Veteran Services. The announcement followed a closed session. Heppner, the legislative, inter-governmental and public affairs officer in the County Administrator’s Office, will hold the post

FAIRFIELD — The vote on the final census redistricting map and a six-month extension of the Fair Board management agreement do not even rate a discussion at Tuesday’s Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting. Both are part of a lengthy consent agenda, items on which are typically taken up un

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Vaccination clinic set Saturday for Solano-area veterans Ted Puntillo FAIRFIELD — A vaccination clinic for U.S. military veterans is set for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Solano County Events Center. Veterans’ spouses and caretakers also can receive their one-time Johnson & Johnson vaccine shots. “As you know, you will have problems going anywhere in the future without the vaccine,” said Ted Puntillo, director of Solano County Veteran Services. “I just bought Giants tickets and the...