Big beef over dairy cow gas

Manteca's elected leaders are having a cow over a Stockton City Council member nominated to serve on the San Joaquin Air Pollution Control District.

IMPROMPTU WALK IN WATER

Ripon youth learn about law enforcement

Ripon Junior Police Academy brought elementary school students into the police department for a close-up view of what it takes to be a police officer.

Councilman & family hosting senior breakfast

Manteca City Councilman Vince Hernandez and his family are hosting a "South of the Border" breakfast for Manteca senior citizens Saturday morning beginning at 9 a.m. at the Senior Center on Cherry Lane.

Farmers market on fast track for Ripon?

RIPON – Getting farm-fresh produce right in the heart of town might be a reality for Ripon residents sooner than anyone expected.

Golfers can help provide recreation scholarships for needy Manteca kids

The Friends of the Manteca Parks & Recreation Foundation and the Manteca Parks & Recreation Department are co-sponsoring a charity golf event on July 24.

Dig this: Adopt-a-Plot at EU Cemetery

Earlier this year, Friends of the East Union Cemetery was formed to help save the historic burial place from disrepair.

Club Leon owners hear the music loud & clear

Surrounding business owners don't appreciate the public intoxication, public urination, and the trash.

Manteca adds Saturday & private lessons

Manteca Parks and Recreation is offering standard week-day group swimming sessions plus Saturday lessons as well as private lessons.

Fallen pastor defied the odds twice

The Rev. James Carlton defied the odds, not just once but twice.

BENEFIT FOR JOWELL GRIGGS

New homes bulking up again

By DENNIS WYATT

Farmer’s market in Ripon’s future?

RIPON – Could the streets of downtown Ripon soon be abuzz with local farmers peddling freshly picked wares?

City taking over LMDs to save park jobs

Manteca will avoid laying off four park workers when the city takes over the day-to-day care of 30-plus landscape maintenance districts that cost homeowners collectively jaust under $1 million a year to fund.

Sierra grad on Billboard Hot Dance Airplay Chart

Sometimes you end up in the same place in an entirely different situation.

Police explorers converge on Ripon

Two days of police skills competitions face some 35 teams of teenage police explorers from throughout California and as far away as Honolulu on Friday and Saturday at Ripon High School for the Fourth Annual Central Valley Explorer Challenge.

Third fire at empty residence

A fire described as suspicious caused $150,000 in damages to a Manteca home at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night in the 200 block of El Capitan Avenue.

Levee work may save $$

Hundreds - if not thousands - of Lathrop and Manteca residents with government insured home mortgages could avoid spending well over $2,000 a year if future growth ends up bankrolling levees to withstand a 200-year flood.

SHELTER SPIFF UP

Second Saturday volunteers helped get work started on upgrading the exterior appearance of HOPE Ministries' seven transitional housing units in the neighborhood east of Doctors Hospital.

Two Lathrop appointees face re-election

LATHROP – Politics can get nasty in Lathrop.

Atheists, freethinkers returning to library

Just their presence alone has prompted a subsequent counter-gathering by those on the other side of the fence.

‘YARD-SALE PARADISE’ JULY 26

A combined flea market / yard sale?

Manteca share of levee study: $863K

If 200-year flood protection isn't secured - or at least a financial and implementation plan in place by July 1, 2016 - development of the Great Wolf Resort and family entertainment zone, The Trails at Manteca, and other residential projects in southwest Manteca won't take place.

Evelyn Moore first to file for re-election

Manteca Unified Board of Trustees vice president Evelyn Moore filed her candidate's papers Monday at the San Joaquin County Registrar's Office in Stockton.

Merchant sued despite trying to upgrade ADA

She did what she was supposed to do.

Cheese bus heist in Manteca

A Tillamook Cheese sales tour caravan was disrupted when five of its vehicles were stolen from a Manteca hotel parking places Saturday with two of them being torched a day later by thieves.

Science camp popular Boys & Girls option

Jaden Powell's favorite subject in school is science.

$246K keeps Manteca in the hunt for Great Wolf

Arguably the most ambitious private-public partnership ever undertaken by the City of Manteca - the proposed 187-acre family entertainment zone that could be anchored by a Great Wolf Resort - is about to get another player.

Ripon council filing underway for two positions

Two seats are up for grabs on the Ripon City Council come November.

Chili cook-off honors memory of Les Reile

The late Les Reile made a habit of feeding the hungry in Manteca, Ripon, Escalon and Stockton.