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.