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Finally, after Fourth of July launched Manteca’s municipal costs into the stratosphere for years . .
Perspective
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Manteca Police Officer David Bright is shown in this 2018 photo loading illegal fireworks seized from a Manteca home into a trailer.
The high cost of the skies over Manteca channeling Kabul during the Global War on Terror has always hit city taxpayers hard in the pocketbook.