Dennis Wyatt

Mayor Gary Singh knows he his detractors. He said it goes with the territory when making decisions needed to move Manteca forward.

There are roughly 2,600 de facto Manteca city residents that could become real residents of the City of Manteca.

The completion of the new four-lane Austin Road interchange at Highway 99 is expected to lead to a rethink of how Manteca grows to the southeast.

The odds aren’t very high that Ripon High will again be able to officially refer to themselves as the Indians. It’s a situation that understandably has Ripon High and Ripon Unified School District officials walking on eggshells.

Manteca Unified in two weeks will start its 60th school year on Aug. 6. To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin

It will cost City of Ripon $50,092 to cover expenses related to the 2027 Almond Blossom Festival.

Manteca Unified trustees are expected Thursday to re-enforce a cooperative effort when it comes to the schools and City of Manteca’s sharing facilities from gyms and parking lots to fields, facilities such as the transit center and cafeterias to playing fields, the golf course, and swimming pools.

California has supposedly been on a downward slide to hell since sometime around the Summer of Love in 1966. You know the drill.

Manteca was sputtering two decades ago. Housing was going strong, commercial development wasn’t.

Bond underwriters are bullish on Manteca and the city’s fiscal discipline. That is translating into allowing the city to stretch the buying power of the three-quarter cent Measure Q sales tax even farther.