Bankruptcy brush led to growth cap

Home after home seemed to pop up overnight in the mid 1980s in Manteca putting a strain on services.

SIXTH MAN

Scenes from Thursday's varsity game as East Union hosted cross-town Manteca High.

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Practicing for a major incident

It was the scene of a tragedy for Manteca Fire Department's multi casualty incident training on Thursday.

$62.4M to strengthen levees

The chances of flooding in Lathrop and southwest Manteca will be reduced significantly thanks to $62.4 million in state bond money awarded this week to Reclamation District 17.

PG&E gives green light to dig where SSJID crew cuts gas line

Cutting through an active two-inch gas line Thursday morning put a SSJID crew in danger of an explosion shortly before 9 a.m. in the 1000 block of South Union Road.

Torres family hitting right note as Lathrop’s 1st family of music

LATHROP – Mike Torres, Jr. is very selective about who he lets on his Lathrop ranch.

Kids man lemonade stand for cancer research

Three 11-year-old sixth graders were anything but bored on their week's vacation from school as they set up a lemonade stand that was bringing in big bucks.

RAVIOLI THE CLOWN

Scenes from Wednesday's free program at the Manteca Library that was provided through the generosity of the Friends of the Manteca Library.

Best Buy raffling off high def TV to benefit free tutoring program

Best Buy of Manteca is partnering with Give Every Child A Chance to support free tutoring for struggling kids by helping sponsor the 11th Annual Antone E. Raymus Bowl-A-Thon on Saturday, Feb. 27, at the Manteca Bowl and Family Fun Center.

Elder Michael Greer to serve mission in Melbourne, Australia

Michael Greer, 19, has been called to serve a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Soroptimist Something Special event offers Saturday lunch, Sunday brunch

The Soroptimist members of Manteca are preparing for their 18th annual "Something Special" themed luncheon.

Manteca Morning Rotary crab feed set for Feb. 27

Helping a high school senior go on to college after finding him sleeping under a bridge, Manteca Morning Rotarians are working to bring in more scholarship funds with their upcoming crab feed.

Presentation on astrobiology, ‘extremophiles’offered at MJC

MODESTO – Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) will offer a program entitled "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" on Friday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Forum 110 on Modesto Junior College's East Campus.

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Lawsuit: Much ado about nothing?

On paper the lawsuit over whether Lathrop's one-cent sales tax increase was convoluted and inflammatory.

Manteca joins hunt for jobs

Build it and they will come.

‘Rhino’ stolen from Ripon High

The supporters of the Ripon High School athletic stadium construction are angry over the theft of an $11,500 Rhino 4-wheel quad used in the last three years of the multi-million dollar restoration project.

RUSTIC, COZY SETTING

Greg Lewis and Michael Parmenter sat in a table for two halfway between the bar and the main dining area of Finley's Bar and Grill. The two friends from Stockton are having lunch on the last day of 2014. They are among the regulars who have discovered this out-of-the-way modest-looking bar and grill on Airport Way between Lathrop Road and French Camp Road.

EIR work up next on 310-acre project

The North Pointe Specific Plan is a major project taking place in northeast Ripon.

New judge takes oath on Jan. 22

STOCKTON - Former Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Mulvihill will take the oath of office on Thursday, Jan. 22, as San Joaquin County's newest Superior Court Judge.

Manteca adds first resident for 2015

Jessica Doyle spent her New Years Eve waiting. And waiting. And waiting.

Levee ‘boil’ triggered $100M disaster

State emergency officials were bracing for the worst.

MANTECA’S RIVER JUNCTION

Spanish explorers climbing to the top of Mt. Diablo in the early summer of 1776 thought they had stumbled onto a great inland lake.