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Joyce Tobon of Vacaville FFA rests with her hog Maple Bacona, at the Dixon May Fair, Thursday.
Dixon May Fair returns after 2-year hiatus
FAIRFIELD — Police announced the arrest Thursday of the man suspected to shooting and killing another man two weeks ago in the city. Richard Kline, 51, of Martinez, was booked into the county jail on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of Anthony Fuimano, police announced in a press release. No booking information was available at the close of business Thursday in the jail’s online in-custody logs. Fuimano was shot at approximately 11:25 p.m. April 21 on the 300 block of Manzanita Avenue. Police report he died from his injuries at a local hospital at approximately 2 a.m. April 22. His death was the city’s third homicide of 2022.
A 44-year-old Fairfield person was shot and killed and two men from Suisun City were injured in a shooting shortly after 5:15 a.m. March 13 near a convenience store on the 200 block of East Tabor Avenue. One of the Suisun City men died two days later after being taken off life support. Trine D. Martinez, 25, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the shooting. He remains in jail without bail and is scheduled to return to court Monday for a readiness conference, when dates for a preliminary hearing may be set. Detectives continue to investigate Fuimano’s death. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Fairfield Police Department at 707-428-7600.
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DIXON — The Dixon May Fair has returned after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic and Maritza Cisneros, 17, of Dixon Ridge 4-H, couldn’t be happier. She has been in 4-H for eight years and for the past four has been raising steer. Not having a fair for two years made for a huge change in her life. “It was pretty hard,” Cisneros said. “I do feel like I got more time to work with my steer but with no school it was tough.” When school finally started, it was like a lightning bolt of activity. Suddenly she had classes and schedules to work into the day and time to work with the steer dwindled. “It felt like I just didn’t have enough time,” Cisneros said. The program that worked with the students from 4-H got put on hold and has not started up again. “They don’t seem interested in it,” she said. One nice thing is Cisneros has gotten to see friends she hadn’t seen in two years. “Two of the steers got loose and
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Humphrey, a hog shown by Logan Rush, 9, leaves the arena at the Dixon May Fair, Thursday. we were chasing them and I saw someone I hadn’t seen for a long time. It felt so good,” she said. The fun and excitement of this 145-year tradition also has come back with plenty of old favorites. The grandstands will feature a bulls and broncs event at 7 p.m. Friday, then a truck and tractor pull at 7 p.m. Saturday and a demo-
lition derby at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. “This is the first time tickets for the broncs and derby sold out so fast,” said Karen Spencer, marketing director for the Dixon May Fair. Spencer said she expects over the fair’s four days to see upward of 60,000 people come See Fair, Page A9
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FAIRFIELD — The increase in case numbers has slowed in the aftermath of the Easter holiday, and the number of residents hospitalized with Covid-19 is down. “So it looks like we are cresting from this particular surge,” Dr. Bela Matyas, the Solano County public health officer, said in a phone interview Thursday. There were 262 new cases reported since the last update Monday, 202 of which were from the actual three-day period. It takes the pandemic total to 86,407. The daily average case count since Monday is 67.3, which compares to the prior four-day report-
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A pedestrian walks along Pennsylvania Avenue while wearing a face mask, Wednesday, May 4. ing average of 76.25 cases. The latest 10-day average is 79.8 compared to the Monday report of 70 cases per day, the county reported. But that
rate has slowed. There were no additional Covid-related deaths, keeping the total at 423, and the number of residents in the hospital
who have tested positive for coronavirus dropped from 16 Monday, with one in an intensive care unit, to nine in area hospitals and none in the ICUs. Vallejo had the most new cases at 86, taking the city’s total to 26,114. Fairfield added 65 cases for a new count of 23,139. Vacaville is at 21,990 after 65 new cases, the county reported. Suisun City (6,081) added 21 cases; Benicia (3,277) added 17; Dixon (4,400) added five; and Rio Vista (1,205) added three. There were no new cases added to the 201 the county reports for the unincorporated area of the county. The vaccination rates continue to hold steady with 74% of residents 5 or older having been
fully vaccinated and 83% of that population having received at least one shot. There have been 163,225 booster shots administered, up 1,123 since Monday’s update, the county reported. The number of children 5 to 11 who have received a vaccination shot is at
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