Manteca’s homeless: Full-time workers

The typical Manteca homeless family helped by HOPE Ministries isn't battling substance abuse or living off the system. They are clean and gainfully employed.

Quick, articulate grandmother on cutting edge at 84 years

Ursula Belaski is an amazing woman.

Lathrop leaders burn thru $250K in tax dollars on Browne case

LATHROP - Did the Lathrop City Council break its own rule after approving a resolution on June 3, 2008 which budgeted $20,000 for the "engagement" of Douglas H. Barton as the hearing officer in the Matt Browne wrongful termination appeal case?

Seniors celebrate new low-income housing

Ed Crom could remember when Almond Court was once an agricultural area.

Farmer gets free flowers for donning a dress

RIPON - It wasn't as much about getting free flowers as it was putting together a good laugh.

DeCristo rolls out Manteca events

The curtain is about to go up on four months of community entertainment designed to help foster kids, honor America's servicemen, and provide a family-style setting for live music and movies.

Banks being dinged for city clearing high weeds

There was a time when stubborn landowners who owned vacant lots had weeds abated by the city at taxpayer expense and then have a lien placed against their property to recoup the money.

People impatient with woman volunteer, 62, digging grave by herself

The woman visiting her son's grave site was not too pleased. She did not like what she was hearing from Evelyn Prouty, one of the regular volunteers who have taken it upon themselves to keep the historic East Union Cemetery from turning into a weed patch after the state revoked its business license and seized its endowment care funds.

STREET FAIR FUN

Lots of treasures on display at museum

The Manteca Historical Museum offers plenty of things for visitors to discover.

Night of the Arts a big hit at Sierra High

Senior projects may soon become a casualty of Manteca Unified's $23.5 million budget shortfall.

Facing cancer head on

Jowell Griggs laughs as she recalls her first encounter with her husband-to-be Leo.

Street fair draws crowds downtown

Warm weather only helped make the crowd of festival-goers at the 13th annual Crossroads of Manteca Street Fair grow even larger on Saturday.

Seminar series focuses on improving hearts

They say that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Nearly 100 volunteers help make street fair a reality

By this afternoon tens of thousands of people will be flooding Yosemite Avenue browsing everything from homemade crafts to unique trinkets.

Motorcyclist critical after colliding with pick-up

LATHROP – Investigation is continuing into the cause of the traffic collision that snarled traffic early Friday morning at Lathrop Road and McKinley Avenue.

Crash Closes Lathrop Road

An early morning crash between a motorcycle and another vehicle has closed the roadways to through traffic while deputies are investigating the cause of the crash. Sheriff's spokesman Les Garcia said the roads would be closed for at least three hours.

Fire Engulfs Mobile Home

Fire completely engulfed a mobile home shortly before 4 a.m. Friday morning in the Almond Blossom Mobile Home Park at 1901 E. Yosemite Avenue sending an elderly woman to the U.C. Davis Burn Unit by helicopter air ambulance.

TAKING SHAPE

The burnt orange seats - once trendy in the early 1980s when the Manteca Civic Center was built - are gone.

Manteca eyes possible water use restrictions

The top brass at Manteca's City Hall are taking a wait and see attitude about the drought – but they aren't planning to wait too long.

Manteca Relay for Life off & running

It takes a lot to put together a fundraiser that pulls in nearly $100,000.

Manteca group picked for Battle of Bands

Sometimes just getting your foot in the door is half the battle.

Idling police cars keep public safe

You've all seen them.

HEARTS & HANDS

Dee Gotelli and Elaine Williams have been hard at work tying up the loose ends for Saturday's Hearts and Hands Bingo Night at the Manteca Senior Center.

Manteca folks hungry to spend again

Manteca consumers have gotten their appetite back.

Lathrop Police earn traffic safety kudos

The Lathrop Police Services division of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office has come out on top with two California Law Enforcement Challenge (CLEC) awards in a row thanks to a team effort of 26 sworn officers and a support staff of two.