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MHS Sober Grad plans meeting, fundraisers

Two fundraisers for the Manteca High Sober Grad Committee are taking place this week. This Friday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. the Panda Express in Spreckels Park will donate a portion of the profit to the committee from each meal purchased when you present a Sober Grad flyer. There is a car wash planned for Saturday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the front parking lot of Manteca High ...

May 13, 2009 | | NEWS


BBQ all-day Friday benefits Fun Unity Night kids program

The Rev. Quincy McClain and the Southside Christian Church are again offering a summer event to reach out to help change the lives of hundreds of youth who live in what is one of Manteca's most notorious at-risk neighborhoods for gang influences – Southside.

May 13, 2009 | | NEWS


CVB moving near Bass Pro

Manteca's Convention & Visitors Bureau is going where the tourists go – The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley. The CVB is inking a deal with Craig Realty Group to secure 1,800 square feet near the heart of the complex to serve as a visitor's center and a mall information and promotions office. "It's going to be great to be where the visitors to Manteca go," Manteca CVB Executive Director Linda Abeldt said, noting the site ...

May 12, 2009 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Is it time for water workers, firefighters to ticket water wasters?

It wasn't high noon but for water evaporation and landscape irrigation it couldn't come at a worst time. As the temperatures headed toward the high 80s at 3 p.m. Monday the landscaping along Atherton Drive in front of the Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley was being watered. A fairly good-sized stream of water was flowing down the gutter and into a storm drain. The City of Manteca's water conservation rules that prohibit watering from noon ...

May 12, 2009 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Illegal meetings over embattled frontage road?

RIPON – The political stalemate over a frontage road that three municipal agencies all fail to find common ground on might have just made an unexpected turn. And this one might involve some legal implications. During Monday's meeting of the Ripon Unified Board of Education, parent and resident Paul Femino vented to the trustees during public comment that the two-by-two-by-two meetings that have been held between the school board, the Ripon City Council, and the ...

May 12, 2009 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


Layoffs would save city $1.M annually

LATHROP – If Lathrop were a patient and its budget woes the fatal diagnosed disease, it would be dead in four and a half months if it doesn't get the necessary and immediate life-saving cure. To keep the city's fiscal health in the pink for as long as possible in the desperate hope a miraculous economic turn-around comes to the rescue, city leaders have to make the difficult decision of laying off employees. Furloughs, or ...

May 12, 2009 | Rose Albano-Risso | NEWS


$10.3M Shasta, Neil Hafley multi room work is done

By VINCE REMBULAT Staff reporter of the Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin Trustees of the Manteca Unified School District are expected to sign off on the multi-purpose facility projects at Shasta School and Neil Hafley School at tonight's meeting. Acknowledging the final completion contracts at both sites will take place during the 7 o'clock open session. Architect Rick Saksteder of HMC Architects along with project superintendent Eric Stieb and Tim Gatchett of F&H Construction handled both projects. ...

May 12, 2009 | Vince Rembulat | NEWS


Greg Miller gets the ‘ayes’

Greg Miller could have done a lot of things when he completed his optometry education at the University of California, Berkeley. But after bouncing around the East Bay practicing for several years, he realized that he wanted to settle down in a community that he knew he could stay permanently – venturing over the hill 26 years ago and laying down his roots into a place that he has truly made his home. And he ...

May 12, 2009 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


The vote that changed Manteca

Manteca was anything but a prosperous bustling community back in early 1909. Area farmers were struggling to produce dry land farm corps. Wheat and water melon yields were strong at first but with each successive year the sandy plains produced less and less. The Manteca town site had just a handful of homes with a couple of stores. It was a mere wide spot on the road and a rail stop for fledgling dairies. There ...

May 11, 2009 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Saying good-bye to ‘Captain Ron’

RIPON - "Captain Ron" would have been proud to witness the parade of fire trucks snaking their way down Wilma Avenue in Ripon Saturday morning representing five fire departments on their way to his memorial service.

May 11, 2009 | Glenn Kahl | NEWS


Cameras coming soon at Southside & Library parks

High tech cameras and the old-fashioned concept of neighbors looking out for each other is how Manteca Police are planning to step up efforts to make city parks even safer despite the department being 14 positions short due to the budget crisis.

May 11, 2009 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Teen holds garage sale to fund mission trip

Nineteen year old Eric Medina has big plans for the summer. He is leaving his family, friends and all that is familiar for the first time and heading oversees on a two-week mission trip to Tanzania, Africa. Whether he is serving in his church (Sequoia Baptist Church) during Vacation Bible School, dinner theater, youth band or the annual Christmas living nativity or simply helping out in the community, Eric has always had a deep desire ...

May 11, 2009 | | NEWS


The ‘best’ for instructing fitness, yoga classes

It was shortly after Keri Tapia's mother passed away that she really started to pay attention to fitness.

May 11, 2009 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


Book showcases Manteca murals

Manteca's murals now grace the pages of a new 186-page art book targeted for release in June.

May 10, 2009 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


New home building pace triples

The pace of residential building tripled during April in Manteca with developers starting 37 new single homes.

May 10, 2009 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


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DEL WEBB GARDEN

When Sandra and Al Nevares moved to Manteca, they not only bought a new home at Woodbridge Del Webb in Manteca. After 30 years of living in a small house in Stockton with limited yard space and just a swimming pool, they suddenly found themselves enjoying a new hobby in their retirement years – gardening.

May 02, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | NEWS


Extended camping illegal in parking lots in Manteca

Extended camping – more than one night – in the Wal-Mart parking lot doesn't thrill some Manteca civic leaders.

May 02, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Manteca Hall of Fame awaits Judge Abdallah

Judge George Abdallah – who has served as a judge or commissioner since 1987 – is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.

May 02, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Stockton trucking firm relocates in Lathrop

LATHROP – Moving his company to Lathrop was almost a no-brainer for Joe Antonini.

May 02, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


MANTECA CATERPILLAR INVASION

Thousands of unwanted guests have forced Lucy and Bryan Cook to cancel their Cinco de Mayo party.

May 01, 2013 | James Burns | NEWS


Military may shutter Lathrop’s Sharpe Depot

LATHROP – After more than 75 years of providing jobs to the local economy, the future of the 724-acre military installation now known as Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin – Sharpe is uncertain. On Tuesday the Defense Logistics Agency – the government entity charged with combat logistics support and the delivery of all military goods to troops in each of the four major branches of the service – announced the opening of the mandatory 30-day ...

May 01, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


FUN Club is serious about changing lives

Quincy McClain didn't like what was happening in the neighborhood outside the confines of the Southside Christian Church where she serves as pastor.

May 01, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


TOPS weight loss group seeks new members

The incentives and group support in the Manteca TOPS group is being offered to newcomers who want to join in the effort to Take Off Pounds Sensibly at its weekly 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting.

May 01, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | NEWS


Manteca Bulletin earns first, second place honors in statewide competition

The Manteca Bulletin was honored for its design and creativity at the 2012 CNPA Better Newspapers Contest banquet over the weekend.

May 01, 2013 | Bulletin staff reports | NEWS


THE CANDLEMAKER

Editor's note: A butcher, a baker, and a candle(stick) maker. As part of The Bulletin's Q&A series with people in the community, it rounds out a trifecta with Manteca-based artisan Maria Passetti – who has grown her hobby of making soy-based candles into a healthy side-business.

April 30, 2013 | Jason Campbell | NEWS


Dave Bricker being inducted into Manteca Hall of Fame

Dave Bricker - who spent 32 years serving and protecting the people of Manteca - is being inducted into the Manteca Hall of Fame.

April 30, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


Lathrop’s Mayor Art Show to mark 20th anniversary May 10

LATHROP – The City of Lathrop is celebrating a milestone on Friday, May 10.

April 30, 2013 | Rose Albano-Risso | NEWS


Roller over at 120 Bypass/Highway 99

A single SUV rollover on the eastbound Highway 120 connector to the northbound Highway 99 Sunday evening sent a driver to a Modesto trauma center after Manteca firefighters cut the roof off of his mid-2000 vintage vehicle.

April 30, 2013 | Glenn Kahl | NEWS


Silver Sneakers

No one will accuse Ken McIntosh of being a man with no rhythm. His New Balance tennis shoes bounced to the beat playing overhead – and his body followed – as the 74-year-old former newspaperman led the Silver Sneakers through their warm-up. "Welcome. Glad to see everyone," he bellowed over Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" – the opening song to this hour-long workout at California Total Fitness. "Now let's get our cardio going. Step. Step. Step." ...

April 29, 2013 | James Burns | NEWS


Hernandez: 3 more outlets by Black Friday

Three more outlet stores have inked deals to locate in The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley. Manteca Councilman Vince Hernandez confirmed that Craig Realty working with center developers have secured three retailers s that are in the process of preparing to open stores in Manteca before Black Friday. Developer Poag & McEwen has submitted plans to the city to convert at least one of the spaces for the three stores. Hernandez noted the first of ...

April 29, 2013 | Dennis Wyatt | NEWS


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