The salon joins a growing number of business owners in Stockton refusing to comply with a state stay-at-home directive. Lodi and Stockton’s chambers of commerce joined a coalition of businesses organizations across California pushing back against the state s most recent round of sweeping COVID-19 stay-at-home orders even as California hit and quickly passed a staggering 2 million virus cases. Local cases are skyrocketing, too: Just as soon as it started back up again, University of the Pacific’s men’s basketball program had to suspend activities for the second time this season after another positive COVID-19 test.
Slaying deaths continue to mount
LODI The house on Tienda Drive near Mills Avenue may have more Christmas lights on display that any other in Lodi. Shawn Long said that this year he put up more than 34,000 lights over nearly every exterior square foot of his home, yard, and even driveway.
Long and his wife, Shauna Rosenthal, along with their daughter and son lived in a small apartment in the Fremont area where they couldn’t put up many lights. About four years ago they decided to pull up stakes because of rising rent.
Long transferred his sales job for a plumbing contracting company to Stockton and his family purchased a home in Lodi, where it is more affordable than the Bay Area.