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Kaiser issues pink slips to Manteca hospital employees
Kaiser Hospital in Manteca handed out pink slips to an undetermined number of employees Tuesday morning – part of a Northern California region cut back.
Encouraging news for girl with heart defect
Casey Lynn Bauer received plenty of attention during last February's Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.
Manteca Rec offerings Kid Zone, before school program
Manteca Parks & Recreation has started this year's Before School Program, PM Kinderzone and Kids Zone program.
ODDS & ENDS
Sons of Anarchy cast members at Eagles's Nest LATHROP - Eagle's Nest Harley Davidson welcomes cast members from Sons of Anarchy, the hit FX original series, on Sunday, Aug. 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. The cast attending includes: Charlie Hunnam, as "Jax", Mark Boone Junior as "Bobby", Kim Coates as "Tig", Tommy Flanagan as "Chibs", Ryan Hurst as "Opie", Theo Rossi as "Juice" and creator and executive producer, Kurt Sutter. They will ...
Roth Road closure next week
Roth Road will be temporarily closed to through traffic from Tuesday, Aug. 18, through Thursday, Aug. 20, while the Union Pacific Railroad replaces a railway crossing.
POINT LOBOS STATE RESERVE
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA - It has been called "the greatest meeting of land and water in the world."
Chamber rolls out new magazine
Manteca's pitch to lure new retail and employment opportunities to the community is delineated in the Chamber of Commerce's new Manteca Magazine & Business Directory. The glossy 60-page publication is making it official debut during a free chamber mixer on Thursday, Aug., 20, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Crystal Down's State Farm Insurance agency office in the 200 block of North Main Street. Downs has just completed a major remodel of the building plus ...
Tidewater history is subject of museum program
Just 25 years ago trains ran where the Tidewater Bikeway cuts through the heart of Manteca from Lathrop Road to Spreckels Avenue. The railroad was a start-up to challenge the lock-hold that the Southern Pacific Railroad had on freight and passenger services – including the rates charged – up and down the San Joaquin Valley. The plan was to run a competing line from Stockton to Los Angeles to free farmers and cities alike from ...
162 new home starts so far in ‘09
The song of the skill saws accented with the rat-a-tat of hammers has returned to Manteca. Manteca for the third straight month has recorded more than 30 housing starts with work starting on 36 new homes during July. That means 87 homes have started in the last three months which is more than three times the monthly pace of the prior 14 months. Housing starts are now up to 162 homes in 2009 through the ...
Tighter budget imperils Ripon programs
RIPON – Falling revenues means Ripon Unified students and parents may find out in the coming months that programs they have expected to always be there – the reader's workshop as one example – could be history. According to Ripon Superintendent Louise Nan, the district is going to be dangerously close to encroaching on the three-percent reserve that the State of California requires all districts maintain within the next three years. While each round of ...
The long walk for the first day of school
LATHROP – Isaiah Robles woke up shortly before 6 a.m. Monday in order to make the long walk to school. The Lathrop High freshman, from his home located near Woodfield Park, set out afoot to his new surroundings, taking the recently completed extension road just west of the Interstate 5. "It wasn't too bad," Robles said. "But it was kind of tiring (walking to school)." Principal David Chamberlain noted that most of the estimated 750 ...
Love INC gathers Thursday to discuss community needs
Love In the Name of Christ – or Love INC of Manteca – will meet Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Community Church, 815 Lathrop Road. A partnership of local Christian churches, Love INC was organized to meet the needs of low income, needy families and individuals trying to make ends meet by pooling their effort and resources. The group's mission statement is "to mobilize the church to transform lives and communities in the name ...
Many ways to make a difference
Making a difference in today's world comes in even the smallest efforts – a philosophy that will soon be introduced to Ripon students participating in the Give Every Child A Chance after school program.
Diners like police chief chatting with them over breakfast
There wasn't a cup of coffee in Police Chief Dave Bricker's hand as he circulated the booths at The Waffle Shop Saturday morning talking to residents about everything from traffic to gangs.
Place of Refuge planning flea market & fair
The Place of Refuge Church will be hosting their first annual parking lot flea market and fair.
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GREAT VALLEY BOOKFEST
The Great Valley Bookfest is bringing everything from nearly four dozen authors to gourmet food trucks to Manteca's Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley along the 120 Bypass on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Developers pay $13,295 per acre to protect farming
The loss of farmland to build employment centers, retail and housing as part of the Austin Road Business Park could cost developers as much as $13.8 million.
Lathrop deputy credited for saving bleeding man
LATHROP – The scene just didn't look right to Lathrop Police Services' deputy Jeff Watson.
Murals honoring those who served
The side of the historic Oddfellows building in the heart of downtown Manteca for years listed the names of the 954 Manteca area residents who served in World War II.
SAVE A PAIR
There is Helen and there is Grace – the iconic women of the CrossFit culture.
Party bus ferries accident victim to medical appointment
Manteca businessman Phil Waterford continues to help with the recovery of the seriously injured Lincoln Elementary School sixth grader who was airlifted to the U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento several weeks ago.
Father-son duo find first pumpkin
The father-son team of Matthew and Michael Cassidy found the first golden pumpkin worth $100 in the Manteca Bulletin's Great Pumpkin Hunt.
Schools collect items for troop Christmas gifts
Since 2008, Manteca Unified School District has been in partnership with Lodi Support Our Troops in their annual Holiday Cheer Box Drive.
PUMPKINS & FAMILIES
It may be called Pumpkin Fair. But judging by the human traffic that paraded Saturday Sunday around the Pumpkin Fair grounds in downtown Manteca, Family Fair may be an apt moniker for this popular annual event.
High density saves prime farmland
The best shot at saving the most prime farmland from development over the next 27 years in San Joaquin County is the creation of high density clusters of jobs, services and housing.
Lathrop ponders new city logo & slogan
LATHROP – If you're a Lathrop resident you know what the city logo looks like.
Colony Oak test stars get star treatment
It's going to be a "red carpet" treatment for elementary school scholars thanking them for their successes in school from the third through the eighth grade.
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