Manteca Bulletin
newspaper in Manteca, California
The Manteca Bulletin is a daily community newspaper for Manteca, California, United States. The Bulletin has been in publication since 1908 and is currently owned by 209 Multimedia, a local news firm. The current editor of the Bulletin is Dennis Wyatt.
Description
The Bulletin is a community newspaper and places a heavy emphasis on local news. Like many community newspapers, the Bulletin does not report national or wire service news on its front page. However, the Bulletin will often localize national news if the story has a local impact, or to get local perspective. Non-local news is typically relegated to the inside pages and is often limited in scope.
History
To promote a large-scale water project that was the forerunner to today's South San Joaquin Irrigation District, two men named F.L. Wurster and A.L. Cowell joined forces to print the Irrigation Bulletin in November 1908. Originally printed in Stockton, California, the Bulletin was essentially a series of flyers distributed statewide promoting the irrigation of 70,000 acres (280 km2) of sandy loam soil around Manteca.
With help from the South San Joaquin Chamber of Commerce, the Bulletin expanded into a standard-size weekly newspaper on June 3, 1910, when it was moved from Stockton to Ripon.
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