The State - News from May 27, 1985
The Solano County community of Fairfield is considering a ban on beehives within city limits. At a City Council meeting a Fairfield resident--who said he had been stung several times--said that 52 registered hives and many other bootleg beehives in the county “make us prisoners in our own homes.” The City Council has given beekeepers and anti-bee factions one month to come to terms before it votes on a proposed ordinance banning hives on property not zoned for agriculture. County agricultural inspector Bill Lyon said he prefers not to regulate beekeepers and considers the bee brouhaha a “good-neighbor issue.”
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