It's a $150 million investment backers say will relieve traffic congestion, take trucks off the crowded Altamont Pass corridor, reduce air pollution, strengthen the San Joaquin County economy, and ease the need for more freeway construction.
RIPON – As many as 122 Ripon Unified students between fourth and seventh grades might end up finding themselves at another school next year.
The City of Manteca will help you do your part in protecting the earth as well as your identity this Saturday.
Jack Snyder – a man who made it his business to build a better community – is being honored as the recipient of the 2009 Manteca Chamber of Commerce's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Manteca District Ambulance is in the process of locating a substation along Airport Way to put 2,700 homes in West Manteca within its targeted five-minute response time.
When Sierra High School theater teacher Sarah Frase was thinking of a spring musical, she knew that the one that was selected was going to be different right off the bat.
Having parents that were almost twice as old as those of her friends never bothered Dorothy Mulvihill.
Four days honoring those who served America – from Manteca's most decorated soldier to the latest Manteca soldier to lay down his life for his country - takes place May 22-25.
Joe and Lillian Machado are moving forward with plans to annex and build 560 homes on 156.8 acres they own on the southwest corner of Woodward Avenue and Airport Way.
It was undetermined whether Victoria Stagno could count the number of Easter eggs she placed in her basket.
It costs a lot of green to operate Manteca's landscape maintenance districts. It is why Del Webb residents are battling the city over a proposed $60.65 annual assessment on their individual lots to pay for the maintenance on landscaping including utilities (electric and water), irrigation systems, entry signs, walls and other hardscapes, graffiti removal, vandalism repair, curbs and gutters as well as re-lamping of decorative lights (on Union Road only by Woodbridge) on improvements made ...
Fifth-grade students at St. Anthony's School are about a year away from attending the Outdoor School of the San Joaquin County Office of Education formerly known as science camp.
Manteca is raising its standards when it comes to gas station canopies in neighborhood commercial projects.
George Vitek believes times are hard enough for Manteca leaders to consider reviving a Depression Era and World War II strategy – Victory Gardens.
Leonard Rosas couldn't have been happier as he watched his son scurry around the grounds at The Commons at Union Ranch Friday morning.
Thirty percent of Manteca's 330 municipal workers take advantage of the city's interest-free loan program to secure computers for their personal use.
If Christina Thurner had her druthers, she'd spend every waking minute with her baby boy.
Gayle Pace chuckles when she says, "I'm the flower floozy who works on a budget."
Update: Traffic was still at a crawl as of 1 p.m. on Thursday afternoon slowing motorists who were driving northbound on Highway 99 between the Highway 120 Bypass and Yosemite Avenue. Tow trucks had pulled the truck around into one lane leaving the other lane open to allow restricted traffic flow on the freeway.
Manteca is flush with wastewater treatment capacity.
Debra Moore recently worked at Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park.
A crosswalk with flashing beacons on each side of the street to alert motorists there may be pedestrians will be installed later this year on Cottage Avenue at Brookdale Way.
Jessica Becker knows what it's like to be there when her daughter wakes up every morning and when she goes to bed every night – relishing in the bundle of joy and energy that 4-year-old Lauren brings to her family.
What could Manteca do with an extra $1.8 million?
Charlie Jayne Crandall Davis was a happy 6-year-old who wore red-framed glasses, loved to dance and refused to be defined by Down's Syndrome.
It cost just under $30,000 in 1924 to build Manteca's original brick two-story city hall that still stands across from the downtown Library Park.
The speed limit on Cottage Avenue is going to go up by a third.
Jack Miller - a coach and teacher lauded for his "pay-it-forward attitude" - is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.
When the foreclosure crisis leveled the local economy, June Hum knew she was in for a bad trip.
FUN Club Program Inc. has a new location with more room and amenities. But, according to Rev. Quincy McClain, the message remains the same: "Education, education, education," she said on Friday. McClain is the director for FUN – an acronym for Friday Unity Night in the Neighborhood – for the past six years. The previous five were held at her Southside Christian Church at 314 Locust Ave., Manteca. "Every Friday night after the FUN Club, ...