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🌱 What Stockton’s $5 million housing vote means for future projects

Hello Stockton! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Stockton’s $5 million housing vote means for future projects
  • Want to help transform Louis Park and score free pizza?
  • How will Stockton use a $189K social media monitoring contract?

Also on today's calendar: Forejour (A Premier FOREigner and JOURney Tribute Band) Returns to Tracy! and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Pleasant with sunshine, with a high of 74 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Saturday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, temps: high: 79, low: 51.
  • Sunday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 78 and low of 49 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Council backs $5M housing loans despite advice (stocktonia.org) — Stockton’s City Council narrowly approved about $5 million in loans for affordable housing projects, including some city staff didn’t recommend, potentially reshaping where new units get built. The newsletter also highlights Stockton Ports Education Day, a historic church becoming a teen health center, and county libraries offering free prom attire to local students.
   

2. Tree Stockton Invites Community to Help Transform Louis Park on National Hug a Tree Day (caravannews.com) — Stockton neighbors are being asked to help spruce up Louis Park during a National Hug a Tree Day volunteer event on Saturday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tree Stockton will provide projects, refreshments, and a pizza celebration as volunteers plant trees, create art, and clean up the park, with a free-admission family outing at Pixie Woods available afterward.
   

3. Stockton extends $189K contract for social media monitoring tool (recordnet.com) — Stockton’s City Council has extended a three-year, $189,000 contract with social media monitoring firm Zencity to track resident sentiment and guide city decisions, despite questions about measurable results. Councilmember Mario Enríquez pushed for clearer data and accountability, while city staff and the mayor said the tool helps capture community concerns and promised a fuller report this summer.
   

4. Attorney General Bonta, Law Enforcement Partners Announce Armed and Prohibited Persons Arrest in Stockton (ca.gov) — Law enforcement arrested a prohibited gun owner in Stockton, seizing two illegal firearms, ammunition, and a magazine during a search involving state DOJ agents and San Joaquin County Probation. Officials say the case shows how California’s tracking system flags people who lose their legal right to own guns, and they’re also recruiting more special agents to support this work statewide.
   

5. New bill targets a 'roadblock' for college students with disabilities — and it's led by a Stockton educator (stocktonia.org) — A Stockton paraeducator, Madellyn Hill, helped inspire AB 1713, a bill that would make California colleges accept existing K‑12 disability plans as proof of disability, easing access to accommodations. Partnering with Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom of the Stockton area, she’s pushing a change that could spare future Stockton students costly new testing and delays when they enroll in college.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Friday April 17
  • Native C.O.R.E. Annual Youth Powwow
    San Joaquin County Fairgrounds , 1658 S Airport Way , Stockton
    4:00 pm
  • Badminton vs Davis
    Edison High Stockton, CA 95202
    4:00 pm
  • V Baseball vs Bear Creek
    Edison High Stockton, CA 95202
    4:00 pm
  • JV Baseball vs Bear Creek
    Edison High Stockton, CA 95202
    4:00 pm
  • Steve Spiffler with Zeps, Celador
    The Catalyst , 926 N Yosemite St , Stockton
    5:00 pm

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Shared Post
    Good evening everyone, on tomorrow Thursday 04/16/26, we will be giving out FREE FOOD BAGS & FREE 18 count of EGGS and FREE BREAD over here @ Miracle… (Nextdoor Weston Ranch)
  • Who’s missing dog?
    He listens and is well behaved. Has stayed in my front yard all day. He hasn’t left all day /night. I haven’t been able to see if he’s chipped nor do… (Nextdoor Weston Ranch)
  • Niagara Bottling posted a job opening for Forklift Operator I in Stockton. Apply here.
  • O'Reilly Auto Parts posted a job opening for DC Custodian in Stockton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Stockton here.

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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