CVB ANNUAL DINNER

The Manteca Convention & Visitors Bureau annual dinner and meeting took place at the home of Steve and Veronica DeBrum on Wednesday evening.

Piano concert Oct. 4 kicks off Kindred season

Award-winning concert pianist and composer from Sacramento, Tan Plescia, will kick off the 23rd anniversary season of the Manteca Kindred Arts Concert Association with a performance on Sunday, Oct. 4, starting at 3 p.m.

Ugly days near an end?

Manteca may soon drop out of the running for Weed Patch USA honors at least as far as part of the Highway 99 corridor is concerned.

ALL ABOARD!

LATHROP – Ron Dell'Osso always wanted his own train set as a child. It took him 40 years but he finally got one on Friday. Instead of the Lionel train boys dreamed about in the early 1960s, this train set is a tad bigger. It's a 24-guage train or one quarter the size of the real deal and runs on a one-mile oval track around Dell'Osso Farms' 30-acre Pumpkin Maze that opens for its 12th ...

Tough new rules for mobile vendors start October 19

LATHROP – The new ordinance that will mandate taco and ice cream trucks, pushcarts, food wagons and other mobile vending operations to obtain a business permit from the city will take effect on Monday, Oct. 19.

It’s natural for Manteca bodybuilder

Paul Alberts didn't see any need to turn to the needle when he decided to embark on his bodybuilding career almost a decade ago.

Snow White: From Manteca to Paris

While she's only been competitively dancing as part of Harmony Flores' Dance Stars team for the last three years, 18-year-old Maggie Schreiber was determined that she was going to take her dancing to the next level.

SHARP seeking more volunteers

Roger Meadows just didn't sit around the house after retiring from his 27-year career with Lockheed as a project planner.

Impromptu pet rescue shelter irks neighbors

It was a tearful separation Thursday afternoon for two adult sisters and a 5-year-old daughter whose love for animals crowded their small home.

Football field carries name of dedicated board member

Guss Schmiedt literally helped create one of Manteca's earliest football fields. It was Schmiedt – who served for more than 40 years on the old Manteca Union High School District board – who used his tractor and organized others to improve the playing field for the Manteca High Buffaloes when it was located a bit to the west closer to Garfield Avenue. It was only fitting that in 1959 when the present-day football field was ...

Plenty of food, fun for entire family

LATHROP – Here's a party that's open to everybody. It's called Park in the Park, and it takes place today at the Manuel Valverde Park in downtown Historic Lathrop from 6:30 to 10 p.m. "We welcome everyone to come and celebrate Lathrop Days," Gabe Goulart of the city Parks and Recreation Department said, explaining the reason for all the family-oriented celebration. "Come and hang out, boogie on down. We'll do a little dancing, have a ...

Chili cook-off winner credits beginner’s luck

LATHROP – Community Resource Officer Andrea Lopez hadn't even planned on entering the Lathrop Senior Center's annual chili cook-off until she learned that there were only three people signed up.

Manteca Idol starts to heat up going into final 9 weeks

This is the point in the year where I say that I'm glad I'm not the one sitting behind the judges' table determining who it is that has to go home.

Benefit set to assist brothers

Todd Chapman is a member of the Journey Church's youth group. He and his older brother, Eric, 18, are both being raised by their grandmother, according to Twylia Markle, the youth pastor of the former Church of the Nazarene. Chapman, 16, recently endured a series of tragedies. "(Todd) lost his father and a four-year-old half brother in a car accident in August," she said. "His mother passed just this last year as well." On Wednesday, ...

Immigration expert targets media’s Latino prejudices

STOCKTON - Challenging the likes of Pat Buchanan, Latino immigration expert Leo Chavez will discuss at University of the Pacific how pundits and the media have contributed to prejudices and stereotypes used to malign Latino immigrants – particularly Mexicans – in the U.S. Chavez's presentation will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Pacific Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.

IN A KNIFE FIGHT

If Mike Midgley has a future in television, he's not saying.

Michael Eggman wants to represent Manteca in Congress

Like most Americans, Michael Eggman reached his breaking point with politics over the course of the last two weeks.

MUSD Health Services offering free flu shots

The Health Services Department of Manteca Unified will offer flu shots free of charge on Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.

Tank being built will hold enough water for 2.3 million toilet flushes

By early 2014 you will be able to visualize how much water is needed for 233,000 five-minute showers using low-flow heads.

Power deal may lower your bill

The power hungry Silicon Valley could be helping Manteca, Lathrop, and Ripon electrical users lower rates. The Santa Clara based Silicon Valley Power Company has inked a 10-year deal to buy hydro power from the Tri-Dam Project that is owned 50-50 by the San Joaquin Irrigation District and Oakdale Irrigation District. That contract is for a higher amount per kilowatt hour than the current deal with an energy firm that expires on ...

Train sting nails motorists, pedestrians

Five days after a 33-year-old Manteca man walked into the path of a train Union Pacific Railroad Police teamed up with their Manteca counterparts to stage a safety sting operation.

A WARM OCTOBER

Bob Marley sang about how the sun is shining and the weather is sweet.

Luncheon, crafts fair going back to salad days

The longest-running fund-raiser at St. Anthony of Padua School, perhaps at any school in Manteca, is going back to its roots.

Kaiser earns ‘A’ for quality Manteca care

Kaiser Permanente's Manteca Medical Center and Modesto Medical Center both received the top score of "A" by the Leapfrog Group in its annual safety report released Wednesday.

Warm Weather Welcome By Some

TOO SMALL FOR SOME

It sounds like a deal that's too good to pass up: A $1,100 discount once a year for non-profits to rent the City of Manteca's state-of-the-art community room at the new $7 million transit center.

2 more years of 99 road work

Two more years of road work lies ahead for motorists using 10 miles of Highway 99 from the 120 Bypass in Manteca to Arch Road in Stockton.

Lathrop honors California Natural founder

Pat Mitchell started California Natural Products with only two employees in 1980.

Agape Villages earns honor for programs

The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) honored Agape Villages Foster Family Agency as an "Angel in Adoption" at an awards ceremony on Oct. 8 and gala on Oct. 9 in Washington, D.C.

Performing arts center: Act II?

A decade-old dream of a Manteca performing arts/community center could start moving forward.