Suisun City Public Works

09/15/2026

🌅 THE SUNSET YOU WON’T KNOW TO MISS

There’s one sunset this week you should make time to see.

You just won’t know it’s the last one while you’re watching it.

It’s the last sunset that happens after 7 PM in your town.

After that, evening arrives earlier and earlier—
a few minutes less daylight each night.

You probably won’t notice the change right away.

Then one evening in October, you’ll look out the window and realize:

“When did it start getting dark this early?”

It started this week.

So find out when your town has its last 7 PM sunset.

🌅 Go outside that evening.
Stand in the fading light.
Put your phone down for a minute.
Watch the sun disappear.

Because summer rarely ends with an announcement.

It just quietly slips away.

Don’t let it. ❤️

Save this as your reminder to catch it. A illustrative picture with cosy vintage theme. A nice simple leafy border

09/15/2026

Solano Transportation Authority (STA) wants to hear from you! 🚗🚌🚶️🚲

Join STA for a virtual community meeting to learn more about the project and share your travel experiences and needs:

📅 Tuesday, September 22, 2026
🕕 6:00 PM
💻 Zoom: bit.ly/STA-CommunityMeeting

Visit the project website for updates and more information on how to participate: bit.ly/STA-SR12-SR113.

Your input will help guide future improvements that enhance safety, mobility, access, and connectivity throughout Solano County.

09/15/2026

09/15/2026

THIS Saturday! Again, stop by a site for a bit or stay for the whole thing or anything in between. Great family volunteer event. Even picking up five bottle caps and five cigarette butts makes a HUGE difference to the Suisun Marsh ecosystem.

Did you know that Solano County hosts Coastal Cleanup day sites in each city? Volunteering is a great way to keep your community clean. Join the cleanup on September 19th and find your site at cleanupsolano.org
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¿Sabías que el condado de Solano cuenta con puntos de encuentro para el Día de Limpieza Costera en cada ciudad? El voluntariado es una excelente manera de mantener limpia su comunidad. Participe en la jornada de limpieza el 19 de septiembre y busque su punto de encuentro en cleanupsolano.org.

09/15/2026

By hosting this event we (SPCA) prevented 420,000 kittens a single outdoor unspayed female cat can have in her lifetime.

09/15/2026

Cruisin' Suisun Car Show is rolling into the waterfront! 🚗☀

Get ready for a day featuring classic cars, custom rides, live music, great food, and family fun at the 6th annual show.

🗓 Saturday, October 3
⏰ 9:00am-2:00pm
📍 Suisun City Waterfront
🎟 Free admission for spectators

Want to register your vehicle for the show? Visit https://suisun.recdesk.com/Community/Program/Detail?programId=2055

Interested in being a vendor? Contact [email protected] for more information.

We hope to see you there! 💜

09/15/2026

There's a way to build a raised bed that you'll never have to water all summer, even through a drought, and never have to fertilize either. It sounds too good to be true, and it's a centuries-old trick that's finally catching on here.

The secret is what goes underneath. Instead of filling the bed with expensive bags of soil, you build it around a hidden core of rotting wood. That wood acts like a giant buried sponge, soaking up rain and slowly releasing it to the roots for weeks, while it breaks down and feeds your plants for years with no fertilizer needed. It even gently warms the soil, stretching your growing season on both ends.

There's a real skill to layering it right, and a short list of woods you must never use or you'll poison the whole bed. But once it's built, nature does nearly all the work.

I laid out the whole step-by-step. It's all in the first comment.

09/15/2026

Did you know that flower arrangements could be used to send messages? Learn more at our Fall Gardening Series: Floriography - The Language of Flowers event, presented by Bernadette Thomas of UC Master Gardeners. It happens October 3, from 1-2PM.

09/15/2026

The Great Puzzle Race is BAAAAAAACK!! Oct 3rd @ the Benicia Public Library Piece together some friends and give it a go!

The Great Puzzle Race is back! Race against the clock (and your fellow puzzlers) to put together a 500-piece puzzle and win fabulous prizes! Teams are encouraged. Be prepared to throw down on October 3, from 3-5PM.