Teens share visions for Lathrop center

LATHROP – More than two-dozen residents had the chance to imagine what the East Lathrop Community Complex would look like if they had their druthers during a public workshop Tuesday night at the Lathrop Senior Center.

ST. ANTHONY’S THANKS PRIESTS

Scenes from Saturday's St. Anthony's Priest Appreciation Dinner conducted in the school gym.

Dixon wins Manteca Morning Rotary Club’s speech contest

Manteca Morning Rotary Club hosted its annual Speech Contest on Feb. 2.

ODDS & ENDS

Budget cuts means 3 less Lathrop deputies

LATHROP – The number of Lathrop Police patrol officers remains the same even with the loss of three deputies on staff, said Lathrop City Manager Cary Keaten.

Are ghosts hanging out at Finley’s?

They're called the Ghost Research Investigators of the Paranormal or GRIP.

SUPER SUNDAY FOOTBALL

Kids near Doxey Park played a friendly game of football before kickoff of the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Medical team departs on Haiti mission Wednesday

RIPON - The Ripon medical team that had its mission to Haiti canceled in mid-January due to a lack of jet fuel at a Dominican Republic airport is finally going to leave for the earthquake ravaged area on Thursday.

ODDS & ENDS

863 homes won’t start ‘for years’

Donna Strange doesn't want to see more homes built in Manteca until foreclosures that are plaguing neighborhoods – including her own south of Woodward Park – are absorbed by the market.

SUPER BOWL OMELETS

BOYS & GIRLS SCORES THANKS TO MANTECA CITY WORKERS

Poker play benefits homeless shelter

A Texas Hold' Em Tournament on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Bank of Stockton, 660 N. Main St., will benefit the HOPE Family Shelter Ministries.

Serving America

Jared A.Ross

Workshop input sought for library, youth & teen center

LATHROP - The City of Lathrop will be hosting the first in a series of public workshops to revise the Master Plan for the East Lathrop Community Complex on Tuesday, February 9, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Lathrop Senior Center, 25707 Fifth St.

Manteca’s biggest neighborhood ever

The biggest residential project ever approved for Manteca is about to get bigger.

RESPECTING THE FALLEN

Family get togethers, barbecue, or a celebration at the park like the big gathering that Manteca had over the weekend is "not the true meaning" of Memorial Day weekend, said American Legion Post 249 Commander Jim Winston to the sparse group that showed up Monday at the historic Union Cemetery on Louise Avenue and Union Road.

Walnut huller seeks SSJID water for fire protection

Walnut grower Chris Van Groningen is hoping the pressurized irrigation system installed by the South San Joaquin Irrigation District west of Ripon and south of Manteca could be tapped for fire suppression.

Lathrop honors those soldiers who have fallen

"The freedom we enjoy is not free," Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal told the crowd gathered in front of the Veterans Memorial for Monday's Memorial Day observance.

Mattheis goes from serving as Lutheran minister to an atheist

AmyJo Mattheis isn't your run-of-the-mill atheist.

Honoring the ultimate sacrifice

The pastor. The retired steel worker. The congressman.