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What to do with Cottage Avenue?

Councilman Steve DeBrum wants Cottage Avenue made safer between the Highway 99 overpass and Louise Avenue and he doesn't want to spend thousands on a consultant to do so.

April 23, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Renewable law enhances value of SSJID power by 70%

Dropping power prices may actually make it more feasible for South San Joaquin Irrigation District to leverage Tri-Dam Project receipts to deliver on a promise to reduce power costs by 15 percent assuming they get past the San Joaquin Local Agency Formation Commission.

April 23, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Running for Boston to raise funds to help

Tracy Crane has organized memorial races, uniting the heavy-hearted in a common cause. She also completed 100 miles in February to commemorate the 100th month of her daughter's diagnosis with diabetes, raising money and awareness with each footfall. When life gets tough and overwhelming, Crane, a certified run coach and burgeoning race coordinator, does what she knows best. She runs. Not away from the problem, but directly at it. "Fortunately I have a way of ...

April 23, 2013 | James Burns | NEWS


CIGNA Healthcare recognizes DHM as certified bariatric center

Weight-loss patients in Manteca now have a CIGNA Healthcare certified Bariatric Center at Doctors Hospital of Manteca, according to its CEO Nicholas Tejeda.

April 23, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | NEWS


RELAY FOR LIFE

It wasn't the weather that brought Virginia Zore to California. It wasn't Disneyland or Hollywood or San Francisco or any of the other trappings of The Golden State. It was cancer. It was the Relay for Life. After flying clear across the country to visit friends in Manteca, Zore - who was diagnosed with lung cancer on Oct. 12 – represents the fighting spirit that the event promotes and the tenacity that one person can ...

April 22, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


(Almost) 50 shades of green

Come this summer you'll be able to charge an all-electric vehicle downtown and do so from power generated from the sun and not the PG&E grid. That's because the Manteca Transit Center now under construction on South Main Street at Moffat Boulevard will not only include solar panels over about half of the parking shade structures but it will have electric car charging stations as well. "It (the transit center) is going to not ...

April 22, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


LAFCo forcing SSJID to spend $1.9M on effort to lower rates

It's been 44 months since the South San Joaquin Irrigation District filed its current application before the San Joaquin Local Agency Formation Commission for permission to sell retail electricity to customers in Manteca, Ripon, and Escalon at rates 15 percent below PG&E prices.

April 20, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Neighbors worry about French Camp fertilizer

FRENCH CAMP – Helen Carter watched the news on Wednesday night and cringed. A building with flames reaching high into the Texas sky suddenly and violently exploded – blowing the windows out of homes and businesses within a five block radius. While she undoubtedly felt empathy for those killed in the blast, Carter also became immediately concerned about a complex located less than a mile from her rural French Camp home that stores the same ...

April 20, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


Former Manteca resident returns home for concerts

Katie Byrd arrived in Nashville knowing the cross-country move was a Hail Mary. The songstress began dazzling crowds as a child in Missouri, where'd she win multiple talent shows and awards. The former Manteca and Ripon resident even flirted with a career in the country music capital of the world. But she was young – and without many contacts or much of a plan. Byrd returned to Nashville in March of 2012 a stronger, more ...

April 20, 2013 | James Burns | NEWS


Magazine cover features Mantecan’s photo

How many ways can you photograph a sunflower? The cover of this issue shows one perspective.

April 20, 2013 | | NEWS


Could West Texas inferno happen here?

LATHROP – The image of a West Texas fertilizer plant exploding Wednesday night startled a nation already on-edge after the terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon earlier this week.

April 19, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


THAT’S THE TICKET

It takes reserve Manteca Police officer Eugene Estrella less than 30 steps to chase down a purse snatcher while on-duty.

April 19, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


BMX track reopens with Strider track

Municipal staff cut through the red tape to allow the Spreckels Park BMX track to reopen Thursday with the Strider track intact.

April 19, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


GETTING IN SHAPE

He looks like a miniature version of the Hulk, minus, of course, the green skin. Broad shoulders. Big arms. A square jaw. It's hard to imagine Alex Avila, Manteca's traveling personal trainer and a former Sierra High football standout, as a heavy child. But he was. Avila says he was 6 when he first took control of his body, laying the framework for a life in physical fitness. Back then, he had high hopes of ...

April 18, 2013 | James Burns | NEWS


Remove ‘bumps’ & BMX track reopens

Removing a series of "bumps" that max out at two feet in height will allow the re-opening of the Spreckels Park BMX track that was chained off Monday by the City of Manteca.

April 17, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


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Police putting dogs thru paces today at K9 trials

The Manteca Police Department Canine Unit is hosting its annual canine trials today beginning at 8 a.m. and continuing until at least 2 p.m.

April 27, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | NEWS


Manteca OKs sidewalks for Commerce

When Social Security built a new Manteca office in 2012, the federal government chose a site behind Home Depot that was away from public transit and not accessible by sidewalk.

April 27, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


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