This week in Tracy history
10 years ago — 2013
The 27th Annual California Dry Bean Festival attracted a good turnout in downtown Tracy, where three entertainment stages were located.
A couple who fled Syria after a civil war developed in their home county arrived in Tracy to stay with their son and his family.
The Women’s Center of San Joaquin County has abandoned plans to purchase a home in an east Tracy neighborhood for a battered women’s shelter after neighbors objected to its location.
Tracy Police are seeking witnesses to what they believe was a street race near 11th Street and Corral Hollow Road. One car in the race crashed twice.
25 years ago — 1998
Sophomore John Benton is gaining regional attention as a running back for the Tracy High Bulldogs.
Of the 75 teachers who have started the new school year, 20 percent were recruited from as far away as Minnesota and Iowa.
The West Valley Mall has staged a Back-to-School Fashion Show with local teens serving as models.
Linebacker Mark Shiffler has become a top all-around player on Coach Steve Lopez’s West High varsity football team.
The City of Tracy has purchased a high-tech sprayer for use by Tracy’s Graffiti Patrol.
A San Francisco development firm has offered to provide the city with a 26.5-acre sports complex on 11th Street on the western edge of the city.
50 years ago — 1973
Phil Anderson and Liz Remonda have attended Boys and GirlsState sessions in Sacramento. They reported taking part in interesting programs on how the political system works.
The Tracy Raiders have become Tracy’s first Pop Warner youth football team.
Juan Rodriguez from Alicante, Spain, has arrived to be Tracy’s American Field Service student for the school year. He is living with the Ernest and Florence Makino family.
The city council has turned down a proposal to install flood lights in Lincoln Park to curtail vandalism. The council’s 3-2 majority argued floodlights would be targeted by vandals.
Mona Solario reigned as queen of Tracy’s Mexican Independence Day fiesta.
100 years ago — 1923
Tracy’s high school has enrolled the most students in its history at the start of the new school year. Enrollment has reached 130 students.
A Pacific Gas & Electric crew has started construction on “great white way” streetlights on 11th Street and Central Avenue.
– Tracy Press archives
