Ag Day brings ‘farm’ to Great Valley

WESTON RANCH – Great Valley School's Agriculture Education Day was marked by several firsts.

Overy earns Mayor’s Award for her generous gesture

LATHROP – Patricia Overy is the latest recipient of the Mayor's Award of Distinction.

Torch run opens BMX park

The Manteca Senior Games will help christen the city's latest recreation venue - the Spreckels Recreation Park BMX track.

Orchard Valley turning into community events center

Poag & McEwen promised that The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley - when completed - would have a "warm downtown feeling" where people would be encouraged to stroll leisurely between stores, enjoy water features and sit beneath shade trees.

Lathrop asks residents for community complex wishes

LATHROP – Residents will get another chance to share what they'd like to see added to the East Lathrop Community Complex when city officials meet at the Lathrop Senior Center on Tuesday, March 30.

DHM promotes Bava to head HR

Michele Bava has always had a knack of working with people, only surpassed by her work ethic that grew out of the dairy farm chores she shouldered on her parents' farm in Waterford as a young girl.

MANTECA TEEN DANCE

Scenes from Friday's Manteca Parks & Recreation teen dance at the Golden West School Community Gym.

1930: “Talkies” come to Lyric Theatre

Workforce shrinks by 8 more

The departure of eight municipal employees in the coming weeks - from two police officers to a parks worker - means Manteca will just have $3.8 million left to cut in order to balance the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1.

Fire claims 2 cockatiels, 2 dogs in Lathrop

LATHROP - A noontime structure fire Friday in Lathrop, with black smoke visible from the east side of Manteca, claimed the lives of two dogs and two cockatiels that had been left in the home while the owner was away.

It’s springtime in Manteca

Spring has sprung.

Former Bulletin publisher changes plea to no contest

An earlier sexual battery not guilty plea was reduced to a "no contest" stipulation for simple battery against a female employee by former Manteca Bulletin Publisher Paul Mahony, 54, in the Manteca Branch of the San Joaquin County Superior Court Friday morning.

Orchid show set for today, Sunday

STOCKTON – Patty Reece has come a long way since she watched the first orchid ever given to her as a gift shrivel up and die right before her eyes.

HE’S NO DUMMY

Scenes from Wednesday's free puppet show at the Manteca Library that was made possible by the Friends of the Manteca Library.

Mural society: Working on railroad

In the not-too-distant future if the San Joaquin County Rail Commission is successful, sleek high speed Altamont Commuter Express trains will pull out of downtown Manteca on a 55-minute journey to San Jose.

River Islands seeks OK for 675 boat berths

The Army Corps of Engineers is seeking input on environmental studies that would allow River Islands at Lathrop to build 5.6 miles of levees on the Old River to accommodate the project's second phase as well as to build 675 boat berths.

BUILDING ON SUCCESS

Frank Saldana knows what it's like to be out on the street.

Teen’s essays impress Manteca veterans

For Conrad Sylvester, they are more than just words jotted on a page or recited into a recorder.

Great Wolf: Decision in June?

Is a 500-room Great Wolf Resort Lodge worth howling about for Manteca?

Lathrop moving forward in 2015

There are two types of cultures that permeate municipal governments.

Recruitment underway for Miss Manteca, Ambassador

Manteca Youth Focus is heading back to school to recruit the new Miss Manteca and Manteca City Ambassador.

Soldier fighting for his life

A Manteca soldier home for two weeks from his second Army tour in Iraq to see family and friends before reporting to his third war zone tour is fighting for his life in a Modesto trauma center.

QUILT SHOW MOVING

Thanks indirectly to an ADA requirement, one of the largest annual crowd attractions in downtown Manteca is moving to another location.

Convicted murderer pushing for new trial

The man convicted of murdering 51-year-old Michael Lawrence in front of his 8-year-old daughter in June of 2013 is trying to get a new trial.

1964: Flooding along San Joaquin & Stanislaus rivers

100 years ago