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From Park Avenue to park bench
Crouched forward in his seat, shoulders slumped toward the table, Doug Borges rubs calloused hands against one another.
It’s the Wild, Wild West for copper thieves
Prospectors ravaged California's countryside 165 years ago searching for gold.
The sheriff, false alarms, tickets & distracted driving
Every eighth-tenth of a second it happens.
Everything from Art in the Park to Chocolate & Cherry festivals
The Manteca Junior Women's Club is staging Children's Art in the Park on Saturday, May 17, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Library Park in downtown Manteca. There will be free arts and crafts. That is in addition to food vendors, art displays as well as demonstrations, entertainment and merchandise being available for sale. For more info click go to our online Community Calendar at community.mantecabulletin.com.
IRS gives away $13B in taxpayer dollars to crooks
If your company lost $13 billion in one year due to sloppy work you wouldn't expect them to hand out $2.8 million in bonuses plus grant big step pay raises for a job well done.
You’re so vain you probably think this selfie is about you
Warren Beatty has met his match - self-centered selfie snappers.
Mom says she just tries to do her best
Mothers' Day at our house are most days of the year, when that special woman I married 54 years ago witnesses her efforts continuing to bloom after raising three boys and a girl – all leading successful lives in their vocations.
The fantasy of a $26 an hour minimum wage
Congresswoman Barbara Lee is advocating placing California's minimum wage at $26 an hour.
Smartphones & carte blanche government fishing expeditions
I have an iPhone.
Fat Cat show tonight for Welcome Home Heroes
Run for Rina! The annual half-marathon run and 5K run/walk held in honor of the late Rina Brocchini and to raise community awareness and funding for the Ripon High Stadium Project, is scheduled for this Saturday, May 10, at 7 a.m. For more info go to www.rinasrun.com or call Stephanie Hobbs at 209.599.6861.
Thank justice: City Council prayers get legal blessing
Somewhere approaching 500 times in the last 23 years Manteca City Council meetings have opened with a prayer.
High tech crackheads & the Seven Deadly Sins
Google the words "pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed" and "sloth."
Manteca’s new standard for road maintenance: South Main Street
Take a drive down South Main Street between Industrial Park Drive and the 120 Bypass.
Yes, you can eat healthy in Manteca
Manteca, the Family City. I've called home since 2009 and wouldn't trade it for any other city in California. I love it even with the five McDonalds, three Taco Bells and abundance of taquerias, and I don't mind it, because I learned my lesson years ago.
Articles by Section - Local Columns
2 tunnels away from being next Owens Valley
SAM MACK MEADOW, Inyo County – You can't get much closer to the source of a large chunk of Los Angeles' water than Sam Mack Meadow at 11,040 feet just over a mile from the Palisade Glacier – the largest in the Sierra.
MHS senior is inspiration to other teens
It's true inspiration to see a teen that stands out among the rest of the student body for his positive actions in school where there is a need.
Want to find out about yourself & California? Go take a hike
It was 40 degrees Thursday. I had been hiking for six hours. The sun had been up over the Great Basin for perhaps three hours.
Willis Carrier’s hot idea: Has it cheated us of enjoying the heat of summer?
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. This column first appeared in July of 2012.
El Rey: It’s demise was as splashy as its 38-year run
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. This column first ran in November of 2011.
THE LEGAL CHAPTER
Manteca's Book Exchange has run into an unexpected legal chapter.
MRPS Holy Ghost celebration this Sunday
The Manteca Ripon Pentecost Society 95th annual Holy Ghost Celebration includes a parade on Sunday, June 29, at 9:30 a.m., mass at St. Anthony's Church at 10:30 a.m. and serving of sopa and meat as well as the auction following the mass. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. and dancing by the band ALMA comes at 8 p.m. For more info click HERE.
Hernias, butter knives & doing crazy things
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. This column first ran in July of 2011.
Manteca’s Darlings
Striking up the band with heart and soul memories is the order of the day early Friday evening when Leroy Darling's former Manteca High musicians will be marching through the front door of the Chez Shari dining room at the city golf course on Union Road.
3 words killing America today: ‘I am entitled’
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. This column first ran in December of 2010.
If eating 2 apples a day is going to kill me, so be it
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. This column first ran in June of 2011.
Grass isn’t any greener on this side of the hill
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. This column first ran in July of 2010.
So you think that tip you put down is something extra for good service
Editor's note: Dennis Wyatt is on vacation. The following column first ran in June of 2011.
Manscaping & the pain of it all
Step No. 1: Squeeze lotion into palm of hand.
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