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Manteca's incoming interim police chief, Capt. Michael Aguilar, is an officer familiar with the job. Acting city manager Lisa Blackmon announced Mike Harden will complete his interim service as police chief at the end of March. Aguilar, Manteca police's operations division commander, will take over as interim police chief on April 1. City officials also announced the search for a permanent police chief has been postponed. This will be Aguilar’s second stint as the interim leader of Manteca’s police department. He served as interim police chief from November 2019 to August 2020 after prev...

Members of the San Joaquin County Sikh community are organizing to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Free COVID-19 testing will be available at Sikh temples and other locations through the county. No insurance is required, walk-in opportunities are available and immigration status will be neither required nor reported. The testing sites are located at the following locations: • Stockton Sikh Temple: 1930 S. Sikh Temple St., Stockton. Testing is available every Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. • Tracy Sikh Temple: 16101 W. Grant Line Road, Tracy. Testing is available every Mond...

Former Monterey County superintendent named acting head of Stockton Unified [The Record, Stockton, Calif] John Ramirez Jr. is in charge of the Stockton Unified School District, but it is not a permanent appointment. At least not yet. In a closed meeting of SUSD trustees, Ramirez was voted in as the acting superintendent in place of an ailing Brian Biedermann, who is out on medical leave and scheduled to leave his post as interim superintendent on Feb. 25. Ramirez may end up with the interim title, or even be named permanent leader of the district, but there’s more to the process.

“Were you to come visit any of us in a hospital setting and see what it looks like to be critically ill with COVID, you would be doing everything humanly possible to avoid it,” Relman said at Thursday’s town hall. “It is a miserable, miserable disease. You do not want it.” Relman is a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, and he was invited to answer constituents’ questions by McNerney, D-Stockton. In thanking Relman for participating, McNerney stressed the importance of informing the public. “I think it’s important to be informed on the issues aroun...

Manteca police searching for suspect accused of lewd acts with minor MANTECA — The Manteca Police Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of a man accused of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old. Investigators are searching for Karl Edward Halyday, 61, who is known to frequent both Manteca and Vernalis. Halyday knows that a warrant has been issued for his arrest, authorities said. Halyday is sought on suspicion of a lewd or lascivious act with a child under 14, and harmful matter shown/sent to minor with intent to arouse. He is described as a white male adult, with brown or blo...