Archive By Author - Dennis Wyatt
Don’t ‘break’ our backs
Kirk Dall's lips made it clear: No new taxes. Dall was the messenger at Tuesday's City Council meeting and he was there to kill any talk of a new municipal utility tax. "This is the straw that will break (our backs)," Dall said of the proposed utility tax trial balloon floated by municipal staff as a possible way to help cover a part of a projected $11.3 million deficit expected to materialize in the fiscal ...
BLD play up; paid attendance hits 355,000 in 2008
Business is booming at Manteca's Big League Dreams sports complex. The management has just hired 11 new employees and plans to do another wave of hiring in the coming months after ending 2008 with a record 355,000 paying visitors who passed through the turnstiles. The firm leasing and operating the six-field complex that also has two restaurants and an indoor soccer arena reported that in first quarter comparisons there are: •257 adults softball teams this ...
Going from sound walls to inviting travel corridors
The old walled city of Manteca was a forbidding place. It was a place where asphalt and concrete was king as nothing broke up monotonous corridors of asphalt, concrete and masonry walls save for a few stunted trees doing their best to avenge their treatment by having their roots push up nearby sidewalk. The sound walls attracted graffiti, hemmed in dust and debris, and served as a passive reservoir for the oppressive sun of summer ...
3 different landscaping standards
Can the Del Webb homeowners association that already maintains two internal parks, the community's recreation complex and landscaping along sound walls meet " city standards"?
Movie price war escalates: Tickets now $3
Hollywood productions such as "Driving Miss Daisy", "Ghostbusters II", and "Back to the Future II" were packing them in at movie houses the last time ticket prices were $3.
Manteca extends legal fireworks sales thru 2014
The use and sale of safe and sane fireworks in Manteca will be legal through at least 2014.
The Muthart Plan: Ultimate 4 percent mortgage solution
It's too bad President Obama didn't pick Jim Muthart as the architect of his stimulus plan to get the economy rolling again instead of Tim Geithner.
Fight over landscaping
The landscape is changing. Four years ago, not a single protest was heard when the City of Manteca formed landscape maintenance districts to keep the cost of upkeep on sound wall landscaping and associated improvements on the back of home owners in specific subdivisions instead of shifting the expense to taxpayers. Now an attempt to form a landscape maintenance district (LMD) at Del Webb at Woodbridge post-mortem – a council policy adopted years ago requires ...
Council snips attempt to require mandatory dog fixing
The City of Manteca won't decree that dog owners get their animals fixed. Pits bulls and related breeds will remain as the only dogs facing mandatory spaying and neutering in Manteca after the council Tuesday rejected a plan to extend that requirement to all dogs. Mayor Willie Weatherford believes such an ordinance would only penalize responsible pet owners who license their dogs while allowing those that create the problem to avoid any consequences. If an ...
Free Easter egg hunt Saturday a Manteca spring tradition
It's organized chaos. And it's a Manteca spring tradition. Some 1,500 to 2,000 kids are expected to descend on Northgate Park Saturday for the free Manteca Noon Kiwanis annual Easter egg hunt. They start arriving at 9:30 a.m., even though the actual gates to the softball complex won't open until well over an hour later. They will come with rabbit ears, in their Easter casual or just plain every day clothes carrying baskets, buckets and ...
Full disclosure sticker for new home buyers
Transparency is now all the rage at all levels of government. It is easy to understand why. The well is going dry in terms of options on how many ways are left to skin a taxpayer. It's about time transparency is more than mere lip service although a lot of folks in government still have one heck of a ways to go before they are crystal clear about what they are doing with our money. ...
Manteca’s homeless: Full-time workers
The typical Manteca homeless family helped by HOPE Ministries isn't battling substance abuse or living off the system. They are clean and gainfully employed.
More to cost of Almond Court than meets the eye
You've got to love some newspaper reporters. It is against their nature to report on anything unless they can show there is conflict. Such is the case with the Almond Court subsidized low-income senior apartment complex dedicated on Monday on North Union Road in Manteca. The Modesto Bee had to give the story "tension" so they found a real estate agent who brokers apartments in the Northern San Joaquin Valley – 100 complexes in the ...
DeCristo rolls out Manteca events
The curtain is about to go up on four months of community entertainment designed to help foster kids, honor America's servicemen, and provide a family-style setting for live music and movies.
Banks being dinged for city clearing high weeds
There was a time when stubborn landowners who owned vacant lots had weeds abated by the city at taxpayer expense and then have a lien placed against their property to recoup the money.
Articles By Author - Dennis Wyatt
State demands $1.7 million
Sacramento made it clear to Manteca: Pay back a $1.7 million redevelopment agency loan now or risk having local sales and property taxes seized.
New Melones assures Manteca’s prosperity
Editor's note: This is the second of a six-part series taking a look back at Manteca's first 95 years as an incorporated city. Voters approved incorporation on May 28, 1918.
7,000 crosses turn Woodward Park into hallowed ground
God and country.
Mega project impacting Ripon
Everything from Ripon schools and roads to fire service will feel the impacts of the Austin Road Business Park - the largest development ever approved in Manteca.
Manteca turns 95 as a city a week from today
Editor's note: This is the first of a six-part series taking a look back at Manteca's first 95 years as an incorporated city. Voters approved incorporation on May 28, 1918.
The IRS and the big government- big media complex
Lie to the federal government and you'd better get you affairs in order.
Larry Page and his goog- goog- googley eyes
Get ready for the invasion of the Barneys.
Environmental study next step for Great Wolf
Nearly 100 acres of city-owned wastewater treatment plant land could end up as the premier family entertainment hub for the Northern San Joaquin Valley while tapping into the Bay Area market as well.
To the Class of 2013: It’s all about attitude
Dear graduates:
Super flush: One treatment plant for Ripon, Lathrop & Manteca sewer?
Manteca, Ripon and Lathrop could become more than just neighboring communities at least when it comes to wastewater.
Kids sleeping in boxes for homeless awareness
A handful of kids are going to get a chance to think out of the box when it comes to perceptions about the homeless.
Perhaps Manteca should just say no to bonus bucks
It was the white lie of the last decade.
High Stanislaus River flows
Federal authorities are intentionally flooding low land along the Stanislaus River in a test to see whether it will help increase the chances of salmon fingerlings making it to the Delta.
Tim Cook is big benefactor of Apple picking
Shame on you, Tim Cook.
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