Heel, toe, dosey, doe. .

She was born and raised in a city of stars, called Disneyland her backyard and was related to a Hollywood extra.

A REAL YO-YO CHAMP

Julian Semenza is an artist. He doesn't spend hours in front of an easel with pastels or oil paints, and it isn't a sketch book that takes up most of his time. But if you hand Semenza a yo-yo – yes, a yo-yo – the Sierra High School junior is absolutely mesmerizing with a quiver of tricks that run the gamut from wild flipping loops to intricate string manipulation that seems downright impossible. Last weekend ...

Here comes ‘King of Wake’

LATHROP - The national King of Wake 2013 series is coming to Lathrop's Mossdale Quarry Lakes on June 29-30.

State rolls out details on Delta twin tunnels plan

STOCKTON (AP) - California water officials released on Thursday the first part of a $23 billion plan to restore and protect the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem and guarantee a stable water supply for millions of Californians.

Run, mommy, run: Manteca’s marathon family

Debbie Schickert races the sun to the horizon line, pounding city streets and sidewalks with a training partner before dawn.

Global warming now Manteca issue

Global warming for most is abstract. But that is about to change. Whether you believe it is an environmental crisis or unfounded, concern about global warming is going to soon change your life and how Manteca develops. And the solutions are going to cost you money. That's because Manteca - like all other local jurisdictions in California - is under a state mandate known as the Global Warming Solutions Act authorized in 2006 as Assembly ...

HE’S THE CHAMP

Sean Sangalang walked into Culver City last weekend with a chip on his shoulder. Or, more appropriately, his rippled, fibrous traps. It had been three years since he last competed in a bodybuilding competition in the Los Angeles alcove, and everything that happened on that day went badly. It was his worst finish since he started lifting competitively seven years ago, and the experience brought the strained relationship with his then-coach to a head. So ...

Area Catholics rejoice over pope election

Al and Annie DeGroot were glued to EWTN Catholic TV all morning on Wednesday. Like millions of Catholics – as well as non-Catholics – worldwide, they were eager to find out who will be the next to succeed the chair of St. Peter, the first pope.

LET’S PLAY BALL!

His voice carried across the basin, inviting hundreds of Little Leaguers and their coaches onto the pristine infield.

Are annexations weakening rural fire protection?

Martin Harris isn't necessarily against annexation and growth. It's the hidden consequences – like the impacts to fire protection and emergency services to South Manteca resident – that have him worried. On Tuesday Harris took his concerns to a meeting of the Manteca Planning Commission and spelled out how the pending annexation of the 184-acre Hat estate would further add to the problems that have befallen the Lathrop Manteca Fire District – which as early ...

Go west, Manteca, go west?

Manteca west of Airport Way is shaping up as ground zero for four major city land use decisions in the near future.

Manteca Unified breaking ground on solar project

Manteca Unified's Renewable Energy Efficiency Project is literally taking off the ground at Golden West Elementary School. The North Main Street campus in Manteca is where the groundbreaking ceremony to kick off the district's multimillion-dollar solar energy project – formally known as REEP – will take place on Thursday, March 21, at 4 p.m. This is phase one of the project's ground-mounted solar installations.

SSJID water outlook good as irrigation season starts

Water started flowing shortly without a hitch after midnight Monday to nearly 60,000 acres of Manteca, Ripon, and Escalon farmland.

She’s tuning up for 50 mile run with marathon

When Kristy Oden began running more than a decade ago, her goal was simple and superficial.

Dussau’s Dungeon Roadkill Chili is judged best in Manteca Arts Committee competition

They decided on the best chili and awarded the Judges Choice Award to Deanna and Don Dussau have one hot chili recipe. That's according to the judges in the Manteca Mayors Committee for the Arts chili cook-off on Feb. 24 that took place at the Manteca Senior Center. The couple representing the Manteca Mural Society dubbed their chili "Dussau's Dungeon RoadKill". There were 13 different kinds of chili. The entries included: ...

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