Dennis Wyatt

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VFW post floats idea of taking over city basin

4 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6311 is requesting the City of Manteca allow the organization to take over the storm basin adjoining their post home. It is where the VFW is conducting a car show today starting at 10:15 a.m. next to the post home at 550 Moffat Blvd. The post would like the basin included in the 30-year lease they have with the city for use of the Moffat Community Center that serves as the post home. And they would like the city to continue to maintain the basin.
COMING TO A NEIGHBORHOOD IN MANTECA NEAR YOU: A HOTEL?

4 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Manteca will have 1,365 hotel rooms when two hotels breaking ground in the coming months on Atherton Drive at Airport Way are completed. Apparently, city planners don’t think that is enough. The Manteca Planning Commission when they meet Thursday, May 17, at 6 p.m. will consider amending the zoning rules for commercial neighborhood to allow hotels and motels to be built with a conditional use permit.
Take a few road trips to visit the volcanoes of California

5 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Over the Sierra crest — about 150 miles to the east of Manteca, Oakdale, and Turlock — is one of the world’s largest active caldera volcanoes. It is the 20- by 10-mile Long Valley Caldera that is adjacent to the Mammoth Mountain lava fields. Some scientists believe the lava fields may have its own distinct magma chamber. Most of us never give volcanoes — the 900-pound gorillas historically when it comes to climate change — much thought.
Lesson from my grandmother & mom: Life is rough on single moms but it is really about one’s choices

5 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

It is a sight I will never forget. The scrub oaks, Manzanita, and pines blanketed the steep hillsides that protected the rugged valley from the winds. The road was but two continuous ruts interrupted by mud holes crowded with the thick, green foothill grass that grows strong on the edge of winter before it turns to a blanket of rustic gold as the spring heats up. We had driven just 12 miles off Highway 49 in southwestern Nevada County.
Project will increase Nile Garden School capacity to 1,200

5 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Nile Garden School for decades was a country school. It’s enrollment consisted almost entirely of students from farm families or those that resided in the rural area south of Manteca. That continued to be the case a number of years after Nile Garden and other single school elementary districts merged with the Manteca Elementary School District and Manteca Union High School District in 1965 to create Manteca Unified.
‘PAVILIONS’ NEW CITY STANDARD FOR GAS STATION/RETAIL COMBO

5 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Manteca is changing how commercial areas and neighborhoods mix. A prime example is how developments that envision a gas station, dining, convenience stores, and even car washes in predominately residential sections of the city are adding what planners dub “mini-plazas” or “pavilions.” So far, three developments — including the project that involves an AM/PM gas station on the southeast corner of Woodward Avenue and Pillsbury Road — have included pavilions.
Manteca marks 107th birthday next Thursday

5 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Manteca is celebrating its 107th birthday on Thursday, May 15, at the year’s first Music on Maple event. It takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. in the 100 block of North Maple anchored by the post office in downtown Manteca. The City of Manteca Recreation and Community Services event includes food trucks and other vendors, live music, a beer garden hosted by Brethren Brewery, and a cake cutting ceremony. There is free entry. No outside alcohol permitted.
Gas station opponents sideline their best advocate, Mayor Gary Singh

6 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Want to see a real bad example of bad urban planning when it comes to gas stations? Then take a drive down Moffat Boulevard to where it intersects with Cowell Avenue. There you will find an example of Manteca planning from the mid-1990s. It’s a fueling station style setup sans convenience store and even restrooms. The station went in after the dawn of the “card lock” era when you could pump and pay for your gas without interacting with an attendant.
‘Newsom-nomics’: Governor fearful of political ramifications of $6 gas prices

6 days ago | westsideconnect.com | Dennis Wyatt

Gavin Newsom’s no-holds barred embracing of the absolute greenest green agenda possible for California is coming back to potentially take a big bite out of his political hide. This is not conjecture. It’s the governor himself who is telegraphing loud and clear that the state may have pushed the envelope a little bit too far and too fast when it comes to green policies. Last week, Newsom sent his Energy Commission a message to basically make up and play nice with the oil companies.
MANTECA COUNCIL WILL REVISIT CITY FLAG POLICY

6 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Manteca’s City Council is taking another look at its municipal flag policy. Councilwoman Regina Lackey wants it to be changed so only three flags can fly at city hall or flag poles on other city property such as the transit center, library, and fire stations. The three flags are: *The United States of America flag. *The State of California flag, *And a City of Manteca flag if, and when, one is adopted. The change would mean no more commemorative and similar flags could be flown.