Manteca Bulletin

The Manteca Bulletin serves as the official newspaper and daily publication for Manteca, California, in the United States. With a history spanning almost a century, the Bulletin has established itself as a key source of news for the community. Originally locally owned, it is now part of Morris Multimedia. The current editor is Dennis Wyatt.

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Ripon Unified board will decide on budget today

2 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Vince Rembulat

The Ripon Unified school board will meet today at 7 p.m. to pass the 2025-2026 proposed budget along with the Excess General Fund Reserves consisting of the Review of Reserves is in compliance with state education code. The session will take place in the Ripon City Hall Council Chambers, 259 N. Wilma Ave. A public hearing was held on the budget to be adopted for the subsequent year per Education Code 42127. The budget was made available to the public on June 17.
Manteca allowing bumper crop of tumbleweeds to grow

2 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Tumbleweeds-to-be are taking over a city sidewalk on Sherman Avenue. As such, it dovetails into assertions that the City Of Manteca needs to get a better handle on making sure property owners perform basic property maintenance. The Russian thistles that have almost choked the ability to use a public sidewalk alongside a cyclone fence north of Moffat Boulevard are especially problematic. Not only do they become massive fire hazards when they dry out, but at one point they become tumbleweeds.
State budget deal drops Newsom bid to fast track the Delta tunnel

2 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s attempt to circumvent parts of the state mandated environmental review process to fast track the controversial Delta tunnel has been scuttled for now. Newsom last month tucked language fast tracking the $20 billion plus project into this year’s budget that would have effectively eliminated environmental and judicial review of the project.
It’s drill, baby, drill: More of it may be coming soon to San Joaquin County

2 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Turn on your hot water faucet and there is a chance if you have a natural gas water heater that the energy to fuel it came from the ground below San Joaquin County. There are four companies with 67 producing wells within the county. Most of the wells are west of the San Joaquin River. In March, those 67 well generated 1.4 million cubic feet of natural gas. There are 1,200 other permitted wells in San Joaquin County.
CHICK-FIL-A, 3 ARCO AM/PMS AMONG TOP 25 FOR SALES TAX

3 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Eating out and gassing up vehicles are two of the six biggest taxable sales categories fueling day-to-day Manteca city operations. The just completed municipal audit for 2023 noted overall taxable sales reached $1.889 billion in Manteca in 2023. The category of all other outlets that encompasses places like American Modular Systems, Amazon, BF Funsten & Company Flooring, and other distribution centers topped the list at $588 million.
Crews continue demolishing MHS classroom wings

3 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

Work has started on the replacement and expansion of the Manteca High faculty parking lot on the southwest corner of Yosemite and Sherman avenues. The lot will be expanded more toward the library as well as toward the old classroom wings that are being torn down. It will be ready for use when school starts Aug. 4 along with 22 new replacement classrooms in a two-story building as well as a new CTE (Career Technical Education) building in the final stages of construction.
Lathrop PD seizes 1,815 pounds of illegal fireworks

3 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Vince Rembulat

The City of Lathrop Police Department reported an arrest of one individual in possession of illegal fireworks. Officer G. Embers-Harding and Corporal Daniel Beringer were praised by their “outstanding, proactive” police work in the recent vehicle stop. It’s there they came across 1,815 pounds of illegal fireworks along with 72 homemade explosives, local police said via social media on Monday.
Ripon board honors Legris for her after school program work

3 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Vince Rembulat

Punkin Legris heads the Ripon Afterschool Program. RAP, as it’s better known by, is a structured and supervised program designed to provide a safe environment for students at the various campuses at the end of the regular school days. RAP also had its summer of 2025 program. At Monday’s Ripon Unified school board meeting Legris, who is the director of RAP, was recognized as Expanded Learning Coordinator of the Year.
Manteca’s motto is The Family City: We are family or are we?

3 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

It takes a lot to get me to write someone almost completely off as in I’ll be cordial if I encounter them but that’s about it. A close relative is in that category. Years ago, when I introduced my oldest granddaughter as my granddaughter, he immediately replied that she wasn’t my granddaughter become she wasn’t a blood relative. A short exchange followed, and I left it at that. Two months later, he doubled down in an email telling me she wasn’t my granddaughter. That was 20 plus years ago.
Manteca BLD site of largest ever Fourth event in city

4 days ago | mantecabulletin.com | Dennis Wyatt

It will be, without a doubt, the biggest Fourth of July event ever staged in Manteca and perhaps South San Joaquin County. YupUp has teamed with the City of Manteca to stage what the firm describes as “Disneyland meets hometown charm” to celebrate Independence Day from 3 to 9 p.m. at the Big League Dreams sports complex. The rewards app concern on their yupup.com website as of Monday was still offering advance tickets at $35 apiece.