Gail Perry joining Manteca Hall of Fame

Gail Perry - a key player in the multi-generation success of one of the nation's largest melon and pumpkin brokering firms - is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.

Humpty Dumpty plans flea market on May 1

The parking lot behind the Lindbergh Manteca Adult School on North Street will be transformed into a flea market with 100 sellers on Saturday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

TEA TIME AROUND THE WORLD

Scenes from the Manteca Federated Women's Club's fifth annual scholarship tea, "Tea Time Around the World"

SHRED-IT SUCCESS

Scenes from City of Manteca solid waste division's Shred-It event

Manteca’s first Memorial Day parade honors WWII veterans

World War II veterans heralded as part of the greatest generation are being sought to serve as grand marshals for Manteca's first Memorial Day parade.

Marissa’s Closet bursting at seams

RIPON - Marissa's prom dress closet was a bee hive of activity Saturday with more high school girls learning of the countless dresses on racks just waiting for them to walk through the door and take their pick.

Del Webb stunner part of tour

The Egelston garden at Woodbridge Del Webb in Manteca is impossible to miss.

Dispatchers on job serving public 24-7

Manteca's police dispatchers are family – spending their entire 10-hour shift in a 12- by 18-foot command center in the middle of the city's police department.

1,500 DINNERS HELP LEUKEMIA VICTIM

Friends of Sierra Johnson, a 2008 graduate of Sierra High School who is now a sophomore at Sacramento State University, sold 1,500 Fagundes dinners during Friday's drive-thru event at Sierra High to help in her fight against acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She is tentatively scheduled to receive a bone marrow transplant in the coming weeks at Oakland Children's Hospital.

GECAC offering six service challenge scholarship awards

Give Every Child a Chance (GECAC) is once again offering the Service Challenge Scholarship. A total of six $1,000 scholarships are available to one graduating senior selected from each high school in Manteca Unified School District (Sierra, Calla, Manteca, East Union, Weston Ranch and New Vision High Schools).

1970: Council rejects plan to turn Library Park in county court

Measure M pays for 11 cops

Is Manteca in a position to hire up to four police officers in the next two years thanks to Measure M sales tax as well as possibly save three firefighting jobs?

Manteca jobless rate unchanged for third month

Manteca's jobless rate was unchanged at 16.1 percent for the third straight month in March.

Terpstra: Racing to fires & racing to win

A trip down memory lane for Kevin Terpstra usually involves some sort of fire suit.

Manteca High’s mural man part of Hall of Fame

Kirt Giovannoni has dedicated his life to art.

City, schools launch challenger basketball

Challenger Basketball or children with disabilities will make its debut next month.

Homeless is concern countywide

There are a lot of problems facing San Joaquin County as a whole.

Felonies fall 30% in November

The drop in Manteca's crime rate is accelerating.