Breakfast Saturday is on the dime of Jack & Barbara Snyder

Jack and Barbara Snyder are picking up the tab for breakfast this Saturday at the Manteca Senior Center, 295 Cherry Lane, at 9 a.m.

Downtown murals reflect Manteca history, culture

Manteca's murals are designed to give visitors, newcomers and longtime residents alike an insight into the community's culture, history, and economy.

ODDS & ENDS

$140M back into local pockets

South San Joaquin Irrigation District wants to put more than $140 million back into the pockets of residents, farmers, businessmen, and government agencies in Manteca, Ripon, and Escalon over the next 10 years.

SJ County growth topic of workshop set for tonight

Farmland preservation – as well as growth-related issues for the next 20 years – is the subject of a workshop tonight at Woodward School.

MARVIN MEARS: MIRACLE MAN

"It's such a relief – it feels good!"

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

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.

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.

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.

NEW FACE FOR CHAMBER

Joanne Beattie – Agape Villages Foster Family Villages Agency's senior vice president for resources and development – has been selected to lead the Manteca Chamber of Commerce.

SSJID cuts costs to preserve bond ratings

South San Joaquin Irrigation District has almost $50 million in the bank.

32nd annual Quilt & Doll Show March 1-2

The Manteca Quilt & Doll Show is an event that perennially draws thousands of people to the Family City, many of them from out of town.

Manteca band rocks competition for first

Tower of Power. Earth, Wind and Fire. Chicago.

‘Bomb’ was cell phone, smoke detector

It might have sounded like a bomb.

Home alone, Manteca style

Three men – two from Manteca and one from Castro Valley – who allegedly attempted a home burglary shortly before 10 a.m. Tuesday were arrested thanks to the quick thinking of a 13-year-old boy who was home at the time because of his school's teacher in-service day.

BEEPING BAG ISN’T BOMB

Airport Way between Louise Avenue and Northgate Drive in West Manteca was shut down shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday after a suspected explosive device was discovered in a black plastic bag at the Union Pacific Railroad tracks.

SSJID OKs emergency water sale to Tuolumne

Nobody just gives away water these days.

Sales tax deals net Manteca $3.5M so far

Sales tax sharing deals that brought The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley anchored by Bass Pro Shops and Costco to Manteca have netted municipal coffers $3,539,221 in taxes over four years.

Ripon Unified faces bus driver shortage

Ripon Unified still has some tweaking to do with its transportation.

NOMINEES SOUGHT

Alex Hildebrand was an engineer by training and a farmer by vocation.

Crab feed battery suspect in court March 4

The Manteca High teacher arrested last month after a fight outside of a crab feed for a local elementary school will get his day in court.

2nd chance at first love

Nine days after Valentine's Day and exactly 21 days after their engagement, Patrick Payan and Andrea Juarez will exchange vows and wedding bands in front of family and friends.

PASTELS & PETALS

Mantecan Jean Ramey has added another feather to her artist's cap. Her nostalgic watercolor rendition of a restful garden setting has earned the nod of the Manteca Garden Club to be the signature picture that will grace the brochures, flyers and posters of the garden tour in May.

Sinkhole poses driving hazard on Highway 99

A sinkhole started developing on southbound Highway 99 at Austin Road at about 9:30 Monday night prompting numerous calls to the California Highway Patrol.