Thomas high school essay: Be all you can Be

(Editor's note: Kristofer Thomas wrote this essay as an assignment his senior year at Roseville High.)

IN UNIFORM

Something Special sneak peek features painting, free appraisals

The Sunday, May 17, Soroptimists' Something Special Sneak Peek will feature collectable appraisals, a gold and metal expert, and a well known local artist who will paint a painting in an hour.

Cinco de Mayo at Weston Ranch library

WESTON RANCH - The Weston Ranch Branch Library will present Cinco de Mayo Craft Day on Saturday, May 2, at 2:30 p.m.

2009 income, 2000 house prices

By DENNIS WYATT

Poker fans help deal up some more hope for Manteca homeless families

By JASON CAMPBELL

Kids plan to sleep in boxes to benefit homeless

By JASON CAMPBELL

Politics get physical at City Hall

ROSE ALBANO RISSO

Semantic decision before board tonight

By VINCE REMBULAT

Taking the farm to Great Valley students

By VINCE REMBULAT

Pickleball bounces into Manteca

Pickleball has the feel of badminton, a bit of ping pong and the look of tennis.

Three-way partnership creates BMX track & park

It looks just like a bunch of fenced in dirt but the Spreckels Recreation Park BMX track targeted for christening in the next few months is much more than that.

Bill Berghorst exemplified Ripon family, community values

RIPON - Bill Berghorst will be remembered as an icon of what is good about the Ripon community while leaving a family strongly united.

‘Color the Skies’ launching again in Ripon

RIPON – Jessica Coleman is once again hoping to "Color the Skies" over Ripon this Labor Day weekend.

PRESTIGE TALENT SHOW

Prestige Senior Living at Empire and Louise avenues in East Manteca hosted a benefit talent show Saturday that was staged by seniors to help Agape Family Services.

Uncle Sam, can you help?

The strategy is simple.

MANTECA’S BEST

Project analyst Jose Jasso is the 2013 City of Manteca Employee of the Year.

A concern: Gophers & wastewater

LATHROP – Just how clean is that wastewater after it goes through its tertiary treatment and chlorination process?

FairTax subject of tonight’s Manteca Patriots’ meeting

John Depue is describing the FairTax reform at tonight's meeting of the Manteca Patriots.

Great Wolf: Big water hog?

Great Wolf - the proposed indoor water park resort weighing whether to build in Manteca - conjures up another animal in the mind of some critics. Water Hog.

Cesar Chavez’ nephew attends Manteca movie

Federico Chavez knows the struggles of the field.

Dot Foods provides $50,000 to feed needy

Second Harvest Food Bank received a $50,000 check from Dot Foods of Modesto to cover the cost of more than 91,000 nutritious meals for struggling families in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties and nearby foothill communities.

Manteca veterans get a home

The envisioned Moffat Boulevard Community Hall - the future home of Manteca's Veterans of Foreign Wars post - is a testimonial to perseverance, ingenuity, and municipal staff's can-do attitude.

BERRY SUCCESSFUL

Early morning before the sun peeks over the rim of the eastern horizon finds husband and wife Sai Saelee and Fahm Saechao at their small farm plot on West Yosemite Avenue.

Lathrop just says no to medical pot dispensaries

LATHROP – Barber poles let people know where they can get a trim.

Dinner helps family of victims in deadly fire

The Portuguese Fraternal Society of America, in cooperation with Fagundes Meats & Catering in Manteca, is coming to the aid of a family in need.

So Manteca never forgets

Manteca's next neighborhood park is honoring fallen Marine Corporal Charles O. Palmer II.

JUVENAL LECHUGA

Six years ago Juvenal Lechuga was a Nile Garden School eighth grader struggling to overcome bone cancer.

Help make their wishes come true

A month ago, the Make-A-Wish Foundation brought Riley Simmons' wildest dreams to life, surprising the 11-year-old cancer survivor with a Hawaiian vacation.

Lathrop aims to control skate boarders

LATHROP – Once it's open it will be one of the best public skate parks in Northern California.