Holiday Affair: Friends, food, prizes & help for troubled Manteca teens

It's the $75 ticket that can actually save a troubled teen's life.

GERMAN ADVENT SERVICE

Ballot measure would stop Sacramento from taking local money

Manteca is teaming up with other California cities as well as counties in a bid to have voters approve a ballot measure in the November 2010 election to effectively stop Sacramento from raiding funding sources for local government to balance the state budget.

Stuff the bus with food Saturday

Last year, the Manteca Unified transportation department initiated "Stuff the Bus For Kid's Sake" for the holidays.

Hospice tree lighting takes place Wednesday

It was an all volunteer effort for PG&E linemen who installed some 1200 lights on the Hospice of San Joaquin Christmas tree.

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SACRAMENTO BOUND

Ripon plans tree lighting tonight

Getting on board computer literacy

LATHROP - First and second grade students at Joseph Widmer school anxiously awaited the arrival of the Give Every Child a Chance Technology Outreach Program (TOP) bus.

Wider days ahead for Highway 99

It's called California's Main Street for a good reason.

Will loss of SSJID hurt other PG&E customers?

Can PG&E survive and make a profit without the need to raise rates on its remaining customers if it no longer can rely on monthly payments from Manteca, Ripon, and Escalon consumers?

Tree lighting on Monday starts holiday celebrations

Get ready for Christmas, South County-style.

Radiologist: Don’t exclude under 50

Breast mammography exams definitely saves lives, Doctors Hospital of Manteca staff members agree in their continuing efforts to meet the needs of women in the community mystified by recent studies upping the age for a breast exam to 50.

Muslims celebrate Festival of Sacrifice

The cultural impacts of this holiday weekend stretch far beyond the widespread American celebration of Thanksgiving.

1979: Manteca High band marches in Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day parade

NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SOUTH COUNTY

• TEACHER'S ALLEGED IMPROPER BEHAVIOR DECLARED UNFOUNDED: The complaint against a teacher involving improper behavior with a student at an elementary school in south Manteca has been declared as unfounded.

TRYING TO CLEAR HIS NAME

Rob Cox talks for a living.

Murder case: Legal options Cox faces

Clark County's murder case against Manteca Pastor Rob Cox could be dropped as early as Wednesday.

Patriotic colors part of design for Moffat Blvd. center

Red and white horizontal striping with a blue accent in the upper left corner is part of the elevation facing the railroad tracks for the envisioned Moffat Boulevard Community Center that will primarily serve as the new home for the Manteca Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.

Arsenic found in Nile Garden’s well

No other campus in Manteca Unified has the troubles Nile Garden School is having with drinking water.

Former Buffs pay tribute to Darling

Love and respect for Frances Darling electrified the Chez Shari dining room on Friday evening as about 70 former Manteca High School Marching Band members paid tribute to the woman they consider their matriarch.

Lucky No. 9: Raffle ticket nets new car

Patricia Hansen likes the number nine.

Overcoming odds in pursuit of education

They beat the odds. They continue to beat the odds. And for years and generations to come, they will go on beating the odds.

Ripon non-profit plants seeds for a community garden

A non-profit group is looking to develop a small section near Doak Boulevard and Vera Avenue into a community garden.

RIBBON FOR ALL

LATHROP – When Cedric Mitchell met with Lathrop officials in a vacant field across from Lathrop High School it was hard to picture what was being pitched to him.

Lathrop celebrates 25th birthday with band

LATHROP – Danny Thomas walked methodically across the concrete stage.

Area leaders searching for ADA support

Public opinion indicates that business closures related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) have gone too far.

Catastrophic flood mars 1950s

Editor's note: The following is part of a series recapping Manteca history.

Generations Center: ‘They did it right’

LATHROP – Ethan Holt was kind of in a gray area.

Colorado ADA activist works to bring businesses in compliance

Stephen Hamer fights gallantly for the rights of the handicapped.