Chris Riley
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Community: Blue Oaks Landing stepping up in Vallejo
Workers run wires near zig-zagging stairs as the Blue Oaks Landing gets closer to opening on Sacramento Street in Vallejo. The modular housing system, created by Factory OS on Mare Island, will serve homeless or at-risk of homeless individuals, couples, and families. → Read More
PHOTO: Winter storm soaks Vallejo
A car blasts through a flooded portion of Redwood Street as the rain continued Tuesday morning in Vallejo. The rain is forecasted to take a break for a few days before returning Saturday. → Read More
Photo: Weird weather whips through Vallejo
Huge clouds float above the Carquinez Bridge as rain falls in the distance near Vallejo on Thursday. The rain is expected to return Friday morning and is forecasted to fall Sunday through Tuesday as a storm passes over California. → Read More
PHOTO: Improving the flow in Vallejo
CalTrans workers remove trees and other debris from Chabot Creek as they address a flooding issue in the Vallejo area near Highway 29 on Tuesday. → Read More
PHOTO: The game is afoot at Bay Area Stage
Joshua Roberts, as Simon, plays the ukelele for Glenda Zahradka as Martha and Michele Morgen plays Aggi in the Bay Area Stage production of ‘The Games Afoot.’ The show opens Friday, Feb. 17, and runs until March 5 on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. For more information visit bayareastage.org. → Read More
Photo: Job with a view on Mare Island
A worker takes in the view of the north end of Mare Island from the top of the multi-story Building 503 as the large structure is prepared for demolition on Wednesday in Vallejo. → Read More
PHOTO: Putting on a fresh coat in Vallejo
Louie Gonzales, with Windsor Vallejo Care Center, takes advantage of the nice weather as he works to put a fresh coat of paint on a long wall along Tuolumne Street in Vallejo. → Read More
Monarchs make Mare Island pitstop
Monarch butterflies make a stop on Mare Island during the annual overwintering migration. A smaller tree to the right of Saint Peter’s Chapel is a popular resting place to spot the bright orange wings of the insect. → Read More
PHOTO: Make way for the Flyway
A snowy egret snatches a small fish from the Vallejo marina on Friday. Bird watchers will flock to Solano County next weekend as the San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival takes place Feb. 10-12. For more information visit. facebook.com/groups/virtualsanfranciscobayflywayfestival. → Read More
PHOTO: Benicia bridge comes down
Military West in Benicia will be closed in both directions as crews demolish the pedestrian bridge near Mary Farmar School after engineering inspection deemed the bridge unsound. According to the Benicia Police Department, the roadway is planned to be open by Monday morning. → Read More
Photo: Uplifting experience in Vallejo
A Vallejo city worker inspects the cable on the Mare Island Causeway lift system as part of routine bridge maintenance on Tuesday in Vallejo. The blue skies are expected to be grey as rain is forecasted starting Friday and continuing through the weekend. → Read More
PHOTO: Steel dinosaur on Mare Island
An excavator chomps into a roll-up door on Building 601 as demolition of some of the last remaining empty buildings on the north end of Mare island continues on Tuesday in Vallejo. → Read More
PHOTO: Center of attention in Vallejo
The shadows of workers stretch across the roof of the Dan Foley Cultural Center as they take advantage of a day with no rain to install ridge caps while making repairs to the building in Vallejo on Friday. Sunny days are expected to stick around for the next week. → Read More
PHOTO: Learning how the cookie Crumbls
Drevon Hendricks and Amanda Paz stamp a spiral pattern onto a Honey Bun cookie as they train to work at the new Crumbl Cookies near Safeway on Admiral Callaghan in Vallejo on Tuesday. The store will hold a grand opening on Friday starting at 8 a.m. → Read More
Oasis-Pro delivers high-flying action packed show
When the cloud of smoke dissipated Friday night at the Vallejo Veterans Hall, wrestling fans could have expected to find a kitchen sink on the ground next to the ring. Why not? Everything else you … → Read More
PHOTO: Giving Vallejo a hand
A man rides his bike in nice sunny weather past a mural created by Jerry Ragg, with muraldecor.com at the Security Public Storage facility on Sonoma Boulevard. The rain returns on Friday and is forecasted to stick around through Monday. → Read More
PHOTO: Vallejo fire makes quick work of blaze
Vallejo firefighter Ray Smith runs to pull a line to extinguish a car fire on Couch Street in Vallejo on Saturday. There were no injuries reported in the blaze. → Read More
Photo: Calm before the storm on Mare Island
Ray Lapuz enjoys a morning walk around Mare Island past a mural of a submarine from Local Edition Creative featuring the art of John Horton as dark clouds loom above Vallejo on Tuesday. → Read More
Chris Riley’s 2022 in review: A year through the lens of a Vallejo photojournalist – Times-Herald
Photographer Chris Riley describes his work for the Times-Herald in 2022. → Read More
PHOTO: Glass class breaking the mold on Mare Island
Avery Wilson uses a torch as she makes a pint glass with instructor Douglass Brown during a glass-blowing class at Mare Island Art Glass on Thursday. To schedule a class and for more information visit MIArtGlass.com. → Read More