Dennis Wyatt

Measure Q detractors before passage of the 20-year three-quarter cent sales tax aggressively bantered about an argument that it was all a ruse to give the city’s nearly 500 employees “fatter” paychecks.

Richard Hammartson after 66 years hasn’t changed his tune. He is still feeling blessed.To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin

The two remaining municipal bargaining groups yet to ink a new labor contract with the City of Manteca — Operating Engineers Local 3 and Technical Service Support — are staging an informational picket Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at Main Street and Wetmore Street.

The truth is the “cyclosporiasis debacle” being blamed on our centralized, monopoly-based food system that Taylor Farms is part of the most effective way to combat foodborne illness as well as to fight off starvation and malnutrition when it comes to the masses.

It’s not exactly Jurassic Park, but there is a movement to-reintroduce the grizzly bear to California.

The newest elementary school campus opened Wednesday as part of the River Islands Academies family of schools.

There are 144,000 vehicles that pass through Ripon on Highway 99 on an average day. And they could be a partial answer to the city’s need to expand sales tax receipts to help pay for municipal services such as police plus parks and street maintenance.

San Joaquin County’s homeless population is down 30 percent since 2024.

It wasn’t quite as ironic as the late night TV commercials for Manteca RV with the late Bobby Davis tipping his cigar as he signed off with his arm draped around an actress standing in for his wife, Shirley, as they proclaimed, “Man-teee-ka!”

More than 1,900 ballots have been returned so far in a pivotal parcel tax that will determine the ability of the Ripon Consolidated Fire Department to respond to medical emergencies, traffic accidents, and fires in terms of timeliness and effectives.