First fireplace ban issued for today

The season's first fireplace and wood stove prohibition has been issued in San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Fresno, and the valley portion of Kern counties for today due to deteriorating air quality.

HALLOWEEN FUN RUN

Friends of Parks & Rec donate $5,000 to youth scholarships

The recent Swing for Youth Golf Tournament made a $5,000 donation to the Youth Scholarship Program possible through the efforts of the Friends of the Manteca Parks and Recreation Foundation.

Churches help with telethon in bid to keep doors open to Boys & Girls

Church groups are among the organizations stepping up to help the Boys & Girls Club of Manteca/Lathrop during the 30th annual telethon Nov. 23-24.

Wood carver designing 28-piece chess set

Wood carving from basswood blocks is a whittling art in action every Monday at the Manteca Senior Center Mondays from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Diagnosis brings more caring toward others

Lisa DeGroot is an amazing woman she's determined to make a difference.

BARN YARD BLOW OUT

MRPS HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL

The first annual MRPS Halloween Festival and Dance took place at the MRPS Hall on Saturday.

FROM THE ‘PUMPKIN MAN’

Hailey Ratto, 4, and her two-year-old brother Jake added their spirit to their grandfather Nick's pumpkin creations they brought into the Manteca Bulletin office this week. The family shares their art work every year dropping them off at the front door – a gift from the "Pumpkin Man." The family wished to send their thanks to Art Perry and family, The Dell Ossos and Tony Cardoza and family for their labors in producing the area's pumpkin crop.

Boys & Girls Club happenings

CLASH OF THE WARRIORS WINNERS

You can bid on a double date firefighter package

Dave Marques once graced Oxygen women's exercise magazine's firefighter calendar as Mr. December.

1969: Investigation of MUSD finances

Merchants nix paying for improvements

Downtown merchants and property owners don't want to tax themselves to provide services and improvements specifically benefitting the Manteca's oldest shopping district through the formation of a Property-Based Business Improvement District.

Plenty of Halloween fun set for tonight

Manteca's biggest Halloween family event - the MRPS Halloween Festival and Dance - takes place tonight at the MRPS Hall, 133 N. Grant St. from 4 p.m. to midnight.

Recycled city water for farms?

Water Manteca residents send down the drain could one day help irrigate South County crops.

Manteca services marking Holy Week

The Last Supper on Holy Thursday, living Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday are some of the highlights of Holy Week at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Manteca. The same services, during the Easter Triduum that concludes Lent leading up to the joy of the Easter season, are repeated all throughout the world.

Boy Scout finishes playground project

Camron Moebius isn't an Eagle Scout just yet. It's a process, he says, complete with a mountain of paperwork and merit badge requirements.

Drought a drag on fishing

In nearly three decades Shiloh Foust has never had to worry about missing a season.

Kicking for a Cure soccer match tonight

Its logo might adorn all the letterhead and signage, but Manteca High soccer coach Justin Coenenberg will be the first to admit the "Kicking for a Cure" game is an event driven by the community.

Manteca High junior mixes yoga & murals

Evelyn Gonzalez plans to do a yoga pose in front of all 200 plus murals at Manteca High.

Underground beats mainstream for hip-hop artist Andrew Bell

East Union High graduate Andrew Bell has become a permanent fixture in the Sacramento hip-hop scene since moving to the State Capital from the Bay Area several years ago.

CAPS gardeners get needed exercise through planting and harvest chores

The annual planting at the CAPS' campus on North Austin Road at East Yosemite Avenue adds an element of unexpected "exercise" for the consumers at the learning facility designed as an extra level of educating the physically and learning disabled in the community.

With Their Aid

Jocelyn Patane was nervous, intimidated and at times, lost on the wide-open stretches of the soccer field.

Manteca alleys: Retain & repair or eliminate?

Some new urban neighborhoods embrace alleys.

Lathrop hires help to check building plans

LATHROP – It's not as simple as looking at a picture and giving it the thumbs up.

Master gardener program helps sharpen skills

Some people are born with green thumbs. Others are made.

Make it appeal to Petula Clark

It's not 1918 anymore.

PLANTING THE SEED

In black shades and a Hawaiian button-up, Larry Teunissen is the epitome of beach-boy cool.

Post office pulls plug on mailing taxes by midnight

The tax day midnight madness is no more.