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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Downtown Manteca: 209’s biggest art canvas Volunteers work on the mural on the side of the Spin Cycle dubbed “All Aboard”. It celebrates the completion of the last physical link of the Transcontinental Railroad at Mossdale Crossing in Lathrop on Sept. 8, 1869.
Tracy has the Grand Theatre for the Arts. Stockton has the Haggin Museum. Turlock has the Carnegie Arts Center. Modesto has the Mistlin Gallery. And Manteca has its downtown murals.
When it comes to art displays nobody in the 209 has a bigger arts venue or larger canvasses than Manteca.
Cold but safe at Christmastime
It was a stupid thing to do. We should never have left Wilmington that night.
It was Christmas Eve, 1983. On that Christmas Eve the coldest Christmas Eve on record it was just me and the two boys. We were living in a townhouse apartment on West Locust Street.
I had made several mistakes over the past few years, but at that time, I was trying to make the best decisions I could for the boys. That evening … I almost blew it.
Mom and Dad had invited us over for a family Christmas Eve gathering in Germantown. The plan was to spend the night, open gifts the next morning and enjoy Mom’s special brand of home cooking with the whole family the next afternoon. Their house, the house we all grew up in, was on South Maple Street.
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DOT lets Hadley allow right turns on red onto Route 9
Route 9 in Hadley, Hampshire Mall. Josh Kuckens
By SCOTT MERZBACH
HADLEY Drivers traveling on Middle Street in town center should soon be able to make right turns on red lights onto Route 9.
The state’s Department of Transportation recently informed Hadley officials that it has agreed to an appeal from the Select Board, made in October, to remove the “no turn on red” signs for southbound traffic on Middle Street, also known as state Route 47.
Members of the Select Board asked for the adjustment as part of a strategy to encourage drivers, especially commuters between Amherst and Northampton, to stay on the roads maintained by the state, rather than use an alternate route along North Lane and the dike, and West Street, Cemetery Road and Cross Path Road.