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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. The iceberg that we’ll never forget MANTECA TO A T COLUMN Manteca High coach Andrea Hiatt circa 1982.
We ve reached the point in this pandemic I d like to call the Titanic has just split in half.
That moment when regardless of what actions you ve taken since Covid tore into our hull – faithfully worn a lifeboat around your mouth and nose, panicked and jumped unassuredly into the water, stood on the bridge refusing to believe we d sink, or moved about the bar deck with cocktail in hand as if this wasn t affecting you – I t no longer matters your viewpoint of this doomed liner.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. The time between dog and wolf . . .’ PERSPECTIVE Is this a Manteca mayoral campaign poster for 2024 or an ad for a realtor specializing in properties along the Highway 120 corridor?
Sometimes timing isn t just everything it s the only thing.
As with this column in its attempts to be light-hearted, nostalgic, and anecdotal, there are often social constructs and stories du jour that slow my roll.
It s easy to play the role of flippant pompous jerk once a week from behind print, but I am highly aware of my surroundings within this newspaper. While stretching the broth as far as possible on a stew about mischievous youth and a high school bus egging incident with Sonora, a real news story landed in this same paper yesterday . . .