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Enterprise zone credits topic of chamber lunch
Future Spreckels Park and Manteca Commerce Park firms could benefit from those portions of Manteca being included in one of 42 state-sanctioned enterprise zones throughout California. Among the benefits are: •A hiring tax credit of $37,400 or more per new qualified employee over a five-year period. •Sales and use tax credit on machinery purchases for manufacturing. •Business expense deduction up to $20,000 per year on tangible personal property. •Net operating loss carryover of up to ...
Signs of the times: Manteca is walking the walk
Here's a shocker. The folks at Manteca City Hall are sitting down with the business community – essentially groups of businesses among the top 100 employers – to see what the city can do to make doing business in Manteca easier . It's a 180-degree turn from just a few years ago when folks at 1001 W. Center St. talked the talk and that was it. The first group to meet with City Manager Steve ...
25,000 Flags Over Manteca?
Come Memorial Day nothing would please the Manteca Chamber of Commerce more than to see their 2,400 flags augmented by 22,600 flags citywide. "We want to take the flag project to the next level," said Manteca Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Officer Debby Moorhead. That next step involves encouraging every resident to acquire a flag and place it out on the same eight days each year that the chamber volunteers put the 2,400 flags up ...
ACE train strikes pickup
LATHROP – A Stockton man driving a white Nissan pickup was killed Monday after being struck by an Altamont Commuter Express train. San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident that occurred at about 4:40 a.m. at a railroad crossing at East Roth Road near South McKinley Avenue. Killed in the accident was Jeffrey Donald Walters, 48, of Stockton. The commuter train consisting of five cars and a locomotive was traveling southbound from Stockton ...
Manteca may encourage ‘granny flats’
You'll find scores of low to moderate income rentals – and some owner occupied homes - tucked behind existing houses and off alleys in central Manteca. They often are 500 square feet or less but handfuls built in recent years are in excess of 700 square feet. The rents usually are hundreds below more traditional homes sitting on lots of their own. The proposed housing element update the Manteca Planning Commission will consider tonight include ...
Developers will pay for any council study sessions
LATHROP – During the real estate boom as recently as the beginning of Y2K, Lathrop City Council study sessions were held practically every other week to facilitate developments that were on the pipelines. With the recent reversal of fortunes in the economy resulting in budget deficits across every level of government in the country, everyone is looking for ways to save money. The City of Lathrop is no exception. The proposal currently on the table ...
Board may award bid on all-weather Sierra High track
The all-weather track at Sierra High could be one step closer to reality. Trustees of the Manteca Unified School District tonight are scheduled to award the contract for work on the nine-lane synthetic surface in Daniel Teicheira Memorial Stadium to either Ross F. Carroll, Inc. of Oakdale or Knife River Construction of Stockton. Those two were among the four bids on the project estimated at $509,363. Carroll, however, had the lowest overall bid at $401,355, ...
Manteca Artist Guild work on display
The Manteca Artist Guild has been a part of the area's aesthetic landscape for more than three decades. At one point during the mid-1980s, the guild's reputation attracted even the attention of the then-San Joaquin County Arts Council. Through the art council's sponsorship and participation, a tour featuring the working studios of the guilds' members was held. The art studios of more than two-dozen Manteca Artist Guild members were highlighted complete with newspaper coverage and ...
Dave Macedo: The 25-gallon donor man
How many pints are in 25 gallons? Ask Manteca businessman Dave Macedo. Like clockwork since November 1977 the former Manteca City Councilman has faithfully followed the eight week cycle as close as possible to give blood. On Monday, Macedo reached an impressive milestone– 25 gallons or 200 pints of blood – with a donation at Delta Blood Bank's Manteca location next to Rite Aid on North Main Street "They told me I've given enough to ...
Sierra High seniors attend UOP summer band camp
Jennifer Mitzman is keeping up with a family tradition. She and Ashley Bergman, both of Sierra High, attended the Pacific Music Camp on the campus of the University of the Pacific. Mitzman, who plays clarinet, is the third in her family to attend the Senior Band Camp for ninth-through-12th grade students. Both of her parents – Debbie and Joel Mitzman – are graduates of UOP, with her mother attending the same camp as a high ...
Fruit vendor part of daily Manteca routine
Have you ever seen someone regularly without really knowing them and find yourself relying on their presence as part of your daily routine?
Free Vial of Life forms for seniors
Seniors who must take prescription medicines are being encouraged to stop by the Manteca District Ambulance booth at the farmers market Tuesday to obtain a free Vial of Life kit.
Forecast: 350 more homes being built in Manteca in next 12 months
Developers anticipate building 350 new homes in the next 12 months in Manteca. If that happens, it would mean 55 percent more homes would be built in the coming 12 months in Manteca compared to 225 homes from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. Community Development Director Mark Nelson said based on data and comments provided by builders that he is fairly confident there will be 350 housing starts. He attributes it to the ...
Ex-fire chief blasts city over Matt Browne case
LATHROP - Former Lathrop-Manteca Fire District Chief Jerry Sims has come out of retirement. It isn't, however, to pursue another career. Sims said he is tired of seeing the Matt Browne case stretched indefinitely and letting taxpayers' money being used in what he called a "frivolous" complaint against the city's former Chief Building Official. After reading newspaper reports about the Matt Browne hearing before the City Council on June 23, and the publication of Browne's ...
BLD isn’t a drag on budget
Big League Dreams – contrary to critics of the project – is anything but a financial drain on the city even in the current economic downtown.
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Steves Chevrolet Buick donates car for hole-in-one prize at golf tourney
The annual Antone Raymus Golf Tournament on Saturday, June 8, will once again include a car show.
Exploding sound wall alarms city
Flames from a vegetation fire along Highway 99 jumped the freeway Sunday shortly before 3 p.m. putting motorists in danger from the smoke that spread over the traffic lanes. Ripon firefighters at the same time were called to a vehicle collision on Milgeo and Cypress avenues. Units responded to the crash and called on the Modesto Regional Fire Department out of the Salida station to cover the vegetation fire while they were busy with power ...
ARCHAIC ARCADES
The key to being successful isn't necessarily being the smartest person in the room. It's being the most adaptable person in the room. And when Jake Guerin saw that traditional birthday parties weren't meeting the changing interests of the youth of today he was smart enough to realize that was a chance to capture a market desperate for something new. G Factor Gaming was born. After recognizing that kids were more interested in XBox and ...
Should Ripon administrator live within school district?
Proposed new rules could mean future City of Ripon city administrators would have to reside within the Ripon Unified School District - unless an exception is granted by the City Council. Ripon's elected leaders will decide Tuesday when the council meets at 7 p.m., at City Hall, 259 North Wilma Ave., whether to amend the municipal code pertaining to the city administrator's employment in such a fashion and to have it brought back for a ...
Delta fish have most mercury in California
STOCKTON (AP) - Sport fish from rivers and streams in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have higher levels of mercury in their systems than fish taken from anywhere else in California, a new survey has found.
Search on for teen swept over Yosemite waterfall
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (AP) - Yosemite National Park rangers are searching for a 19-year-old Sacramento man who was swept over a waterfall while swimming in the Merced River.
Watts Equipment steps up to help food bank
Watts Equipment Company is one of the many firms that has stepped up to the plate to support the efforts of the Second Harvest Food Bank in Manteca's Industrial Park. Food Bank CEO Mike Mallory has nothing but gratitude for Watts' efforts and those of its president Shirley Perreira in supplying commercial forklifts and their needed parts and service at his Industrial Park Drive location in Manteca that feeds the hungry in both San Joaquin ...
Ventura dangles idea of 2016 presidential bid; wants Howard Stern as running mate
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Just back from his part-time home in Mexico, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura dangled the idea Friday that he could run for the U.S. presidency in 2016.
Ripon Police make arrests in $5,000 worth of Tractor Supply Company thefts
A 53-year-old Railroad Flat man was arrested by Ripon P:olice officers shortly before noon Saturday allowing them to recover some $5,000 in merchandise from three Tractor Supply stores in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. Shawn Michael Tegen was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on multiple felony charges including burglary, theft utilizing a forged credit card, fraud and the possession of stolen property, according to Ripon's First Sergeant Steve Merchant. Merchant said a quick ...
Exploding sound wall alarms city
Over the years, a number of accidents have sent everything from cars to a milk tanker truck into sound walls along the Louise Avenue corridor. Rarely did pieces of the masonry wall fly more than 10 or so feet. Recently a car made a glancing blow on a sound wall that was put in place as part of the Del Webb at Woodbridge housing development north of Lathrop Road on Union Road. The masonry wall ...
Stapleton, TV’s Edith Bunker, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jean Stapleton's Edith Bunker was such a dithery charmer that we had to love her. And because she loved her bombastic husband Archie, we made room for him and TV's daring "All in the Family."
Twin tunnels will impact Manteca
Steve DeBrum wants to make sure Manteca's future - and that of the rest of the region - isn't shipped south to Los Angeles.
READY TO WEATHER IT
The thought of near 100-degree day – like the one that is expected today – is enough to make most people cringe.
SSJID may build power plant on canal drop
A power plant capable of providing enough electricity to supply 280 homes a day could be built among the almond orchards south of Escalon.
Reflecting on his life: The miracle of Aaron Morris
Aaron Morris had every reason to not enjoy life. Every reason to be bitter about his lot. Every excuse to feel sorry for himself. A string of legitimate and justifiable excuses to avoid getting a job.
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