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The clear and present threat to Ripon’s sense of community: The City of Manteca PERSPECTIVE City of Manteca growth will be a major factor in shaping the future of Ripon High and the rest of the Ripon school system. Ripon, more than a decade ago, repelled the barbarians at the gate. Walmart wanted to build a store a tad larger than Manteca’s in an almond orchard just north of the Flying J Travel Center. Many Ripon residents saw it as an assault on their sense of community and lifestyle. If Walmart established a beachhead for big b...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Movement afoot to stop annexations? A home is under construction Friday in Blossom Grove along Woodward Avenue. The new Sundance neighborhood along Woodward Avenue will add another 514 homes. - photo by HIME ROMERO/ The Bulletin It was just two letters expressing displeasure with growth or was it? Manteca residents Cindy Weese as well as Anthony Salinas submitted comments that w...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. MANTECA FIRE COVERAGE NOW DEEMED AS ‘HEALTHY’ City may relocate aerial truck to Union Road The 100-foot aerial truck responded to a fire at Manteca Auto Plaza, now the U-Haul center, on South Main in 2011. The city’s 100-foot aerial fire truck could be shifted to the Union Road location to be better positioned to respond to what will become Manteca’s greatest concentration of pe...

First hurdle cleared for 10,000-acre Hi Hat Ranch development plan in Sarasota County SARASOTA COUNTY – A blueprint for one of the largest housing projects ever planned in the rustic, wide open area east of Interstate 75 has been OK’d by Sarasota County’s planning board.    The Planning Commission’s unanimous decision last week brought the owners of the 10,000-acre Hi Hat Ranch closer to its vision for replacing much of the rural landscape with a cluster of villages, retail shops and new schools 30 to 40 years from now, despite pleas from residents against moving forward.   Op...

More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Ripon Unified campus planned in City of Manteca An aerial view of the 30,000-square-foot Hat mansion and its grounds taken in 2018 looking to the southeast. The largest cluster of half-plexes ever built in Manteca — 112 — are being advanced for a project to convert what was a 184-acre grape vineyard into a new neighborhood with at least 739 homes.  They are basically duplexes that are built so each un...