Daily Republic: Friday, October 15, 2021

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VALLEJO — A witness to the crash that caused the deaths of CHP Officer Kirk A. Griess and a Vallejo August motorist in 2018 told investigators he saw the blinking lights of the patrol bike as he approached the Manuel Campos Parkway exit off westbound Interstate 80. The man said his first thoughts were to slow down and be cautious. Solano County Deputy District Attorney Haroon U. Khan said Sean M. Walker had different thoughts. “His thought was solely for himself,” Khan said of Walker, who on Wednesday was sentenced to one year in jail – 183 days in lockup and 182 days of alternative sentencing – after he had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of

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FAIRFIELD — When Solano County Superior Court Judge Tim P. Kam divided Sean Walker’s oneyear sentence between actual jail time and alternative sentencing, he essentially ordered a kind of house arrest. Walker, who pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of vehicular manslaughter for the crash that caused the deaths of California Highway Patrol Officer Kirk

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A Vallejo police officer gives Lyn Milas a rose on her 101st birthday at The Lodge at Glen Cove in Vallejo, Thursday.

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FAIRFIELD — Kirk Griess had the kind of personality that earned him the nickname “Hollywood” from his CHP compatriots. “Family was very important to Kirk,” according to a victim impact statement from his parents, Helen and Sheldon Griess, that was read at the Solano County Superior Court sentencing hearing for the man responsible for his death Aug. 10, 2018. It said 150 family members were still mourning the loss of Griess more than two years later. That included his parents, three sisters,

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Lyn Milas sits with her son, Paul Milas, and dog, Riley, during her 101st birthday party at The Lodge at Glen Cove in Vallejo, Thursday. Milas was one of 500 female members of the Marine Corps during World War II.

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VALLEJO — Lyn Milas grew up in New York City, across the bridge from Brooklyn. “I used to play with some of the Brooklyn kids who came over the bridge,” said Milas, who on Thursday turned 101 years old. The Lodge at Glen Cove, where Milas has lived since August, threw her a birthday party, which included a visit from members of the Vallejo Police Department and Medic Ambulance – each with a single red rose – and Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell read her a proclamation adopted by the City Council to “honor and dedicate her 101st birthday . . . (to a)

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