Austin Road project with 4,198 homes requires water tank

Manteca's third water tank may go up on Atherton Drive just north of Woodward Avenue to make sure adequate pressure can be provided for southeast Manteca as well as the 1,050-acre Austin Road Business Park project.

Nile Garden 8th grader county spelling champ

Leonor Borges sort of expected to represent Nile Garden when the school spelling bee rolled around.

SANTA VISITS LATHROP SCHOOL

GOLDEN WEST CONCERT

Golden West school held its annual holiday concert Thursday at the Golden West school gym.

ODDS & ENDS

NEW CORPORATION YARD

LATHROP – The City of Lathrop may soon be able to move its corporation yard from its old and cramped location to a spacious 12-acre property on Louise Avenue. The new site, which was purchased by the city a few years ago, at one time housed a business called Lague Sales which sold government surplus materials and equipment.

Turkeys R Us still short turkeys for 300 families

Turkeys R Us needs another $2,800 by Friday to make sure the 1,300 struggling families in Manteca, Ripon, and Lathrop that they helped at Thanksgiving will also have a Christmas meal.

St. Vincent de Paul Society: Ministry of service

When you think of St. Vincent de Paul Society, think of the following statistics: 7,664 families; 15,513 adults; and 14,529 children.

30TH HOLIDAY AFFAIR

The 30th annual Manteca Soroptimist Holiday Affair was conducted Wednesday at the Bank of Stockton branch on North Main Street. The event raises money for the various community endeavors of the service club.

Telethon total now at $100,391

Late pledges have pushed the 2009 Manteca/Lathrop Boys & Girls Club Telethon total to $100,391.

Manteca CVB offers last-minute gifts that benefit local non-profits

Are you looking for that last-minute gift for that hard to buy for friend or family member?

CD benefits Christmas meal effort

Brieanne Jansen just wants to use her gifts to help people.

Lathrop-Manteca firefighters play Santa

LATHROP – It's a party that only gets bigger and brighter each year for area families feeling the economic pinch.

ODDS & ENDS

Manteca’s $9.5M wish list

Manteca may ask Uncle Sam for $9.5 million.

Lawsuit: Much ado about nothing?

On paper the lawsuit over whether Lathrop's one-cent sales tax increase was convoluted and inflammatory.

Manteca joins hunt for jobs

Build it and they will come.

‘Rhino’ stolen from Ripon High

The supporters of the Ripon High School athletic stadium construction are angry over the theft of an $11,500 Rhino 4-wheel quad used in the last three years of the multi-million dollar restoration project.

RUSTIC, COZY SETTING

Greg Lewis and Michael Parmenter sat in a table for two halfway between the bar and the main dining area of Finley's Bar and Grill. The two friends from Stockton are having lunch on the last day of 2014. They are among the regulars who have discovered this out-of-the-way modest-looking bar and grill on Airport Way between Lathrop Road and French Camp Road.

EIR work up next on 310-acre project

The North Pointe Specific Plan is a major project taking place in northeast Ripon.

New judge takes oath on Jan. 22

STOCKTON - Former Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Mulvihill will take the oath of office on Thursday, Jan. 22, as San Joaquin County's newest Superior Court Judge.

Manteca adds first resident for 2015

Jessica Doyle spent her New Years Eve waiting. And waiting. And waiting.

Levee ‘boil’ triggered $100M disaster

State emergency officials were bracing for the worst.

MANTECA’S RIVER JUNCTION

Spanish explorers climbing to the top of Mt. Diablo in the early summer of 1776 thought they had stumbled onto a great inland lake.