A sample of the photos taken by the Bulletin staff that appeared the print edition of the Manteca Bulletin during the week of January 29-February 4.
BEAR VALLEY - Today and Friday the southwesterly system is expected to bring up to a foot of new snow to Bear Valley. Sunshine is expected to follow, which will make for prime skiing and boarding conditions and relaxing conditions at Bear Beach atop Kuma chair.
A new retail concept billed by both partners as a "match made in heaven" may turn the Highway 120 Bypass into the epicenter of entertainment/destination shopping in Northern California.
A group of 25 to 50 people from Crossroads Grace Community Church in Manteca on Saturday, Feb. 14, will be heading out for the second time this winter to glean citrus from trees at local farms and residences where they will then deliver them to shelters and feeding programs nearby.
During the month of February visitors to Bass Pro Shops at 1356 Bass Pro Drive in Manteca, will have the opportunity to send their children's favorite teacher back to school.
The local chapter of Beta Sigma Phi is opening membership in the Manteca/Tracy area for the 2008-09 year. Beta Sigma Phi is a social sorority created for the purpose of friendship and cultural development. They support local and national charities by monetary donations and hands-on service.
Georgianna Reichelt's battles over growth and government are almost legendary. She was the moving force behind a successful Manteca Rural Committee effort in 1989 that got the California Supreme Court to essentially agree a traffic mitigation study was needed before the 640-home Chadwick Square community in northwest Manteca could proceed. Reichelt also was able to hammer the developer of Villa Ticino and the Manteca City Council to agree to put a jog in Louise Avenue ...
The first annual Anderson's 209 Racing crab feed took place Saturday at the MRPS Hall to raise funds to help construct the new BMX race track now under construction at Spreckels Recreation Park, Moffat Boulevard and Spreckels Avenue.
LATHROP – In anticipation of the filing of the report from the hearing officer who presided over the wrongful-termination appeal of former Lathrop chief building officer Matt Browne, the Lathrop City Council tonight will consider a resolution outlining the process that they will use in reviewing the recommendations.
Palm Avenue just south of Manteca off Austin Road is aptly named. It is a narrow two-lane stretch of pavement bordered on both sides by towering palm trees leading up to a small business park nestled against Union Pacific railroad tracks where a water tower displaying the KAT Country radio billboard greets travelers along Highway 99. There are currently eight existing buildings with a combined space of 147,417 square feet including private stables and strawberry ...
RIPON – The last time that the Ripon City Council publicly discussed how to balance the 2008-09 budget, things didn't go very well.
Ryan Sivley , 28, has made a place for himself in the Hollywood world of animation – something of a recession-proof industry. People like to go to the movies even in bad economic times.
The Manteca Rotary and Manteca Mural Society hosted the third annual Super Bowl Sunday Omelet Breakfast at the Manteca Senior Center on Sunday.
Interim Fire Chief Kirk Waters is at the helm of the Manteca Fire Department as it starts its 51st year as a full-time city operation.
LATHROP – Dwindling revenues due to the widespread economic downtown is prompting Lathrop city officials to sit down and crunch the numbers for the coming fiscal year 2009-10.
MODESTO (AP) - Seventeen bodies have been removed from a Modesto funeral home after complaints the home was taking too long to cremate the bodies, officials said.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California law that requires all semi-automatic handguns to be equipped with technology that stamps its identifying information on bullet casings is now in effect after years of delays.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Thousands of steel tendons used to strengthen the skyway portion of the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge were exposed during construction to rainfall and salty bay mist, leading to rust and corrosion concerns.
EUREKA (AP) - Two earthquakes rattled the far Northern California coast Saturday morning, but authorities say there are no reports of damage or injuries.
FREMONT (AP) - In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.
INGLEWOOD (AP) - An Inglewood police spokeswoman says an officer fatally shot a man who was using a sword or machete to damage police cars.
ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) - Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million - the highest Powerball jackpot in history.
ANCHORAGE (AP) - Alaska's remote Pavlof Volcano was shooting lava hundreds of feet into the air, but its ash plume was thinning Saturday and no longer making it dangerous for airplanes to fly nearby.
WASHINTON, D.C. (AP) - With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's almost time for a new Xbox.
NEW YORK (AP) - The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Sunday.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown.
Manteca High seniors received 138 awards and scholarships during last week's senior awards assembly.