Lathrop streets need $2.9 million in maintenance on annual basis

LATHROP – When it comes to the condition of its pavement, Lathrop fares better than most.

Spending 14 months in Switzerland as Au Pair

Nick Hafer, 24, took on the challenges of serving as an "Au Pair" in Switzerland to the children of two married doctors – a general practitioner and an Ob/Gyn – for some 14 months after graduating from college last year.

Another puzzle piece

Manteca's main retail hub one day is expected to create a continuous 3.5-mile ribbon along Atherton Drive from the future McKinley Avenue interchange to a point just west of Wellington Avenue.

Three cheers for Lathrop High’s top wrestler

LATHROP - Jasmine Ivey burst onto the scene at Lathrop High waving pom-poms and leading cheers.

Lathrop may replace aging water meters

LATHROP – The water meters in the older section of Lathrop aren't functioning properly.

Manteca author finishes vampire trilogy

Kristin Miller wanted to read a very specific book. She was searching for a story about a girl that had a premonition about her death and then worked closely with the police to solve the murder before it actually happened – a sort-of mystic mystery unlike the books that she commonly came across. The only problem was that there was a reason she wasn't coming across books like that – that story didn't exist. So ...

THE CRUCIFIXION

Leo Matthews was taken out of St. Anthony of Padua Church, his 'lifeless body' hoisted by classmates during a re-enactment of the crucifixion scene on this Good Friday.

Manteca jobless rate drops back to mid-2010 level

Manteca's employment rate was at its highest level in February since mid-2007 as 87.2 percent of the 27,600 people in the labor pool had jobs.

Marek new publisher of Manteca Bulletin

Jennifer Marek is the new publisher of the Manteca Bulletin. The longtime Manteca resident started with the Manteca Bulletin in October 2004 in advertising sales. Marek was promoted to classified manager and then overall advertising manager before being named the general manager for the Oakdale Leader in May 2006. "I like local newspapers as they are the only place you can go to get news of your community whether it is city council coverage, high ...

Police Segwey-ing into future

Manteca is about to start segueing from fossil fuel to electric power to move police officers around town.

Inattentive girl bicycles into police car’s path

LATHROP - An 8-year-old girl that dashed out into traffic in a Lathrop neighborhood on her bicycle and was struck by a passing vehicle is home with her parents after suffering only scrapes and bruises.

Who is Phillip Randol? The answer is at Crossroads

So just who is Phillip Randol? Yard signs placed thoughout Manteca have been displaying that question. You can find out by going to WhoIsPhillipRandol.com or stop by Crossroads Grace Community Church this Saturday or Sunday. It is all part of a contemporary delivery of a message that has stood the test of time being staged at the Moffat Boulevard house of worship Easter weekend. The Easter season presentation dubbed "The Fortunate Death of Phillip Randol" ...

$14B keeps fish kill same in dry year

TRACY (AP) - California water officials said Wednesday that a $14 billion twin-tunnel plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta would restore the ecosystem and reduce deaths of threatened fish, although during dry years the delta smelt would be killed at the same rate as today.

MAKING BREAD

Michelle Gallon has fond memories of her grandmother. There were the days as a young girl in Kenosha, Wis. – Gallon grew up in nearby Racine – that she spent learning how to bake in the matriarch's kitchen out of old cans because she couldn't afford to go out and buy actual pans. And then there were the days, recently, as the owner of Michelle's Golden Brown Breads when she got to show her grandmother ...

Rear admiral plans Manteca visit to honor fallen corpsman

By DENNIS WYATT The Bulletin Rear Admiral Donald Gintzig will join Dakota Meyer - the first living Marine in 38 years to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor - as a participant in the 10th annual Memorial Day Weekend Commemoration on May 26 at Woodward Park. The two contacted organizers asking to attend when they heard the 12th panel of the Welcome Home Heroes Traveling Tributes that lists the names of more than 7,000 Americans ...

RELAY FOR LIFE

It wasn't the weather that brought Virginia Zore to California. It wasn't Disneyland or Hollywood or San Francisco or any of the other trappings of The Golden State. It was cancer. It was the Relay for Life. After flying clear across the country to visit friends in Manteca, Zore - who was diagnosed with lung cancer on Oct. 12 – represents the fighting spirit that the event promotes and the tenacity that one person can ...

(Almost) 50 shades of green