September 08, 2020

Platitudes might win elections but they don’t fix streets.

Gary Singh gets that.

It is why the biggest road project in terms of impacts on all Manteca residents — and arguably that of many others the in San Joaquin-Stanislaus counties area — may end up being even bigger impact at least 10 years ahead of schedule.

September 08, 2020

Airport Way is a mess.

But the solution the city had been pursuing for years would not only be expensive and not happen for years to come but it would make matters worse by bringing truck traffic from proposed business parks with upwards of 5 million square feet down Airport Way to reach the 120 Bypass.

August 07, 2020

It was the worst day in Gary Singh’s life. The 23-year-old was being led out of his family business in handcuffs — as was his father Sucha “Sam” — both surrounded by 10 federal agents and other law enforcement officers with handguns on display at their waists.

June 23, 2020

Manteca’s elected leaders — in a bid to build a community that’s appealing to young professionals expected to shape the bulk of economic growth in the next 20 years — are asking millennials for advice.

June 17, 2020

A solution to what amounts to three basic problems — improving traffic flow on Main Street through the current two-lane bottleneck, street flooding during downpours, and jump starting efforts to pump new life into downtown — got the go ahead from the Manteca City Council Tuesday night.

May 31, 2020

More than 500 vehicles — as well as several homeless on bicycles pulling carts — drove through the community food distribution and free face mask giveaway Saturday at the Manteca Transit Center on Moffat Boulevard.

May 22, 2020

A plan for downtown Councilman Gary Singh and others would like to see explored is extending Moffat Boulevard westward by taking out Don’s Mobile Glass and connecting with Yosemite Avenue near Library Park.

May 21, 2020

Listen to Manteca Mayor Ben Cantu long enough and he’ll school you on the pitfalls of government on the cheap.

May 20, 2020

Manteca Councilman Gary Singh believes a fitting touch to mark Manteca High’s 100th anniversary year that started Tuesday and Sierra High’s 25th year that ends in nine days is to put the two campuses on the map.

April 23, 2020

Manteca has a history of approving subdivisions not contiguous with other development that then forces students traveling to and from school on foot or on bicycle to share narrow streets that were developed as rural roads. This photo was taken in 2011 along Woodward Avenue shows a student returning home from Sierra High.

April 21, 2020

Declaring the “railroad was here first” while noting the city can ill-afford to spend upwards of $100,000 to start another project at this time, Mayor Ben Cantu led the charge to derail a plan to study options to look at alternatives for traffic at 12 railroad crossings in Manteca.

April 09, 2020

Manteca’s elected leaders want the brakes applied to any new municipal spending whether it is hiring for new positions or embarking on new projects.

January 30, 2020

Manteca is ripping a page from the playbook of cities such as Omaha, Philadelphia, and Charlotte that are striving to stay on top of changing demographics and values as well as assuring their cities can secure the workforce needed to remain prosperous as the years unfold.

January 27, 2020

Manteca’s most massive business park to date — the proposed 4.2 million square foot Exeter NorCal Inland Commerce Center — could end up having the least amount of impact on traffic as well as existing commercial and  residential areas.

January 15, 2020

You need to know a little bit about “Pete”.

January 10, 2020

Imagine Manteca with a major draw that makes downtown the hub for culture, dining and entertainment.

January 10, 2020

The stop signs recently installed on Airport Way at Atherton Drive will soon become more visible.

January 04, 2020

It is 5 a.m. Friday. Councilman Gary Singh is out and about with Mike Kelly — one of Manteca Police Department’s two dedicated community resource officers that address homeless issues — as he makes his rounds.

November 25, 2019

Manteca Councilman Gary Singh has a suggestion that might score brownie points for the developers of the 99-home Yosemite Greens subdivision — fund a new school bus for the Manteca Unified School District that runs on compressed liquefied gas.

October 30, 2019

Wayfair — a 1.2 million square-foot Internet-based furniture and home goods distribution center — will soon become part of 120 Bypass commute gauntlet.

October 21, 2019

Manteca Mayor Ben Cantu got his first look Thursday at a Great Wolf Lodge.

October 16, 2019

In the mood for deep fried Oreos topped with powdered sugar and chocolate drizzle?

October 08, 2019

Manteca is slowly but surely moving toward removing the bottleneck on North Main Street between Yosemite Avenue and Alameda Street.

October 01, 2019

Gary Singh remembered Deputy Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal as his “contact person” during local relief efforts back when Hurricane Harvey struck Houston in 2017.

September 28, 2019

Removing the most high profile tourniquet on a major Manteca roadway will cost more than $2 million.

September 13, 2019

A deal that addresses noise concerns of Del Webb residents, ultimately diverts future truck traffic from Airport Way, and allows a 486 truck parking yard to be built in the CenterPoint project has been hammered out. All it takes now is for the Manteca City Council when they meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. to bless the deal by approving a memorandum of understanding. The council meets at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center Street.

August 21, 2019

The stage has been set for the creation of a food truck court at Library Park — either along Poplar Avenue west of the library next to a grassy promenade or along Manteca Avenue — on a trial basis of six months or so.

May 30, 2019

If you are struggling to make ends meet and rely on Medi-Cal or lack insurance for dental and eye care the options available to you were extremely limited to nonexistent in Manteca until last week.

February 18, 2018

Manteca needs more police officers.
There’s no debate.
But like all cities, it has a lot of pressing needs. It is doubtful that anyone running the city can add enough officers quickly enough to satisfy public wants and needs and still be fiscally responsible and not desecrate other services.
This is where Gary Singh comes in.

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