75 gather for Public Square Rosary Crusade held at Yosemite & Main

Cash Galvez, 5, and his mother Karah were among 75 people praying for the health and safety of America and the restoration of broken families – praying the Rosary with thousands of others across the country at high noon on Saturday.

Stockton Symphony offering Mozart’s Concerto for Flute & Harp Nov. 19, 21

STOCKTON – With music pieces that are energetic, elegant, warm, and sunny, the Stockton Symphony's third Classics concert on Nov. 19 and 21 will uplift your spirit and enthuse you. The Stockton Symphony and Music Director, Peter Jaffe, continue their 2009-10 season with a concert entitled "Serenade for the Soul," presented on Thursday at 8 p.m. and on Saturday at 6 p.m. at San Joaquin Delta College's Atherton Auditorium.

Junior high spirit win puts Cowell science teacher in dress

Pablo Carrillo was shocked to see his science teacher dressed Monday in women's garb. The Joshua Cowell School seventh-grade student was among those responsible for instructor Brian Bilbao's wear-for-the-day appearance. "He made a bet that he would dress all day if the junior high students won out on spirit day," Principal Harriet Myrick said. "(The seventh- and eighth- grade students) won based on the percentage involved," she added. For Bilbao, it was just his way ...

Pumpkins roll into Half Moon Bay

HALF MOON BAY - Every year when autumn rolls around, the picturesque coast around Half Moon Bay bursts into brilliant orange and buzzes with boisterous activity in celebration of its bountiful fall harvest. The Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival is the season's big event, bringing huge throngs of visitors to the "World Pumpkin Capital" for a world-class festival on historic Main Street. This year's 39th festival will be held on Oct. 17-18 from ...

Pumpkin Patch Festival opening this weekend at Western Railway Museum

RIO VISTA - The 12thAnnual Pumpkin Patch Festival returns this weekend to the Western Railway Museum. It's the only harvest festival in the area to combine rides on real trains with the search for the perfect pumpkin.

City workers give back $11,510 each

Municipal employees – with the exception of the Manteca Police Officers Association – have made an average of $11,510 per worker in general fund compensation concessions over the next two fiscal years.

Red light runner camera proposal deep-sixed

Red light runners won't have to worry about being caught any time soon in Manteca by high-tech cameras when they violate the law and jeopardize public safety.

Rough economy creates bigger holiday need for Turkeys-R-Us

Turkeys-R-Us organizers anticipate they will need to raise funds for 2,600 turkeys to make sure struggling families, low-income seniors, and the unemployed in Manteca, Ripon, and Lathrop do not go without the main course for holiday meals this Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Ripon snags DUI enforcement grants

RIPON – You'd better not have "one for the road" in Ripon. Even in the midst of a budget crisis, the Ripon Police Department managed to snag not only a $113,000 grant on Tuesday that will allow them to step up their enforcement for those driving under influence, but the department also received more than $16,000 that will be specifically earmarked for DUI checkpoints in and around town. While Ripon's DUI numbers might be slightly ...

Manteca Marketplace goes ‘Bollywood’

The customer that approached the management at the Stadium 10 Cinemas had a request that very few in the office had ever heard of before.

Women’s connection luncheon Wednesday

The Manteca Convention & Visitors's next Women's Connection quarterly luncheon is Wednesday, Oct. 21. It is co-sponsored by Doctors Hospital of Manteca, Lars P. Enevoldsen, M.D. and Bradley D. Tourlotte, M.D.

CROSSROADS GRACE VOLUNTEERS PLANT 250 TREES SUNDAY

Butterflies from Art in the Park grace walls of Manteca Library

The Manteca Mural Society's Art in the Park project is now on display at the Manteca Library.

San Joaquin Valley Swiss Echoes dance, concert takes place Nov. 7

RIPON - The San Joaquin Valley "Swiss Echoes" will perform their Fall Concert and Dance Saturday, November 7, at the San Joaquin Valley Swiss Club hall at East Main Street and Manley Road.

STUDENTS OF THE MONTH

Parents charged in baby girl’s heroin death

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) - A couple accused of killing their 5-month-old daughter by giving her a bottle of formula with heroin in it were charged with manslaughter on Friday.

The zombie was having fun . . .

Employee handbooks don't have protocols for apocalyptic episodes.

A-MAZING FUN TIMES

Connor McKinney didn't sprint over to one of the pedal cars that awaited him on the speedway at Dell'Osso Farms, but he didn't quite walk either.

Students’ STAR power brightens board meeting

Nearly three scores of students added STAR power to the Manteca Unified Board of Education meeting on Tuesday. Some even shone twice as bright.

Gov. Brown surprises gun owners

Gun control legislation is typically considered a slam-dunk in California.

Kaiser Manteca nurses taking hospital concerns to Del Webb folks

Kaiser Manteca nurses are pounding the pavement today at Woodbridge at Del Webb to share with the residents their concerns about the state of health services at the West Yosemite Avenue medical facility.

Suspect, 19, arrested in attempted double murder

A 19-year-old Sacramento man has been arrested on attempted murder charges associated with an early morning double shooting Sept. 7 in a Victory Avenue home south of Alameda Street and east of Union Road, just blocks north of the Manteca Police Department.

Economist: Twin tunnels may be Delta death knell

FRENCH CAMP –Jeffrey Michael thought of the people at "Restore the Delta" as a "bunch of hippies" when they first papered his car with their mantra.

Higher speeds for Manteca streets

It may soon be legal to "speed" on Cottage Avenue and Atherton Drive based on current posted speed limits.

Interest is high in 14 gun bills before Brown

San Joaquin County Undersheriff Jon Picone had a few things that he wanted to talk about to the Manteca TEA Party Patriots as their featured guest Thursday night.