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Revamped Manteca Idol returning for 2009
Manteca Idol has seen its fair share of changes ever since it first kicked off six years ago as an event to help raise money for the programs that the Boys and Girls Club uses to keep kids off the streets.
EU Cemetery Association holding annual membership meeting Friday
East Union Cemetery Association will hold its annual general membership meeting at 3 p.m., Friday, March 20, at the Manteca Historical Society Museum, 600 W. Yosemite Ave.
PG&E fear drives McMansions down
Manteca's ultimate McMansions – the 4,336-square-foot behemoths built by Seeno Homes just south of Joshua Cowell School – are still in a price free fall.
Lathrop eyes joining SSJID
LATHROP – Is there a Lathrop in South San Joaquin Irrigation District's future jurisdiction?
Pink slips going to classified workers next
As part of the $23.5 million budget-reduction plan, the Manteca Unified School District Board of Trustees could give the OK towards laying off several classified employees at tonight's 7 o'clock meeting in the new administration building, 2901 E. Louise Ave.
Ripon trying to save with retirement incentives
RIPON – It looks like attrition might be one way that Ripon Unified brass might be able to dodge the cleaver that could spell the end for some teachers and staffers due to budget shortfalls.
Manteca’s Reichgut dances his way to division title
Michael Reichgut definitely knows how to hold his own out on the dance floor. And he's now hoping to take his love for dancing – something he never thought he'd carry beyond the standard tango and fox trot moves that served as a good time while he was learning them – to the next level. This last year Reichgut won in the United Country Western Dance Council in the Gold Couples division as a newcomer ...
Layoffs coming for top employer
Manteca's biggest employer has given notice they may be laying off 320 plus workers. That employer is the Manteca Unified School District. The district last week issued more than 320 "pink slips" to certified teachers. Actually, they are notices that must be sent by March 15 if there is a chance that they may not have jobs when the next school year rolls around when instruction starts in August. How many jobs actually will be ...
Manteca grows by 18,244 people over past decade
Manteca's population has grown by 37 percent in a 10-year period from 1999 to 2008 going from 48,027 to 66,451 residents.
Library dodges Ripon budget cut bullet
RIPON - Things didn't seem like they were going to end on a positive note at the Ripon Memorial Library when the funding that helps keeps the doors open was on the chopping block last month.
BROWN BAG WEEK
It's "brown bag" week at Doctors Hospital of Manteca. Everyone is welcome to fill paper bags with their prescriptions and over-the-counter medicines for a safety inspection at the hospital today through Friday. They will be checked by the pharmacy staff to ensure that no two medicines are going to cause a toxic reaction as part of a nationwide effort to promote patient safety awareness. Dr. Katy Marconi, director of the hospital pharmacy, said that clinical ...
Sorry Dad, at least it’s not while I’m still living under your roof
It took me 26 years to figure out what I wanted to additionally add to my body permanently. Well, it was more like 8 years since I couldn't have done it until I was 18, but the thought of getting a tattoo was always something that seemed like it could have been a possibility at some point – but just not anytime soon. While all of my friends were rushing off to get tribal bands ...
17TH GOURMET SAMPLER
The 17th annual Gourmet Sampler event took place Sunday at the Manteca Senior Center.
Stories that quilts tell make a veritable library
Like books, quilts have plenty of stories to tell. I've been fortunate to have seen, and even touched, many of these fabric books. I've enjoyed "reading" the many stories interwoven in the delicately and painstakingly hand-sewn patterns, as well as in the other rich tales that each work embodied but were left to the viewer's imagination to "read" which, to me, is always the better part of the experience.
March showers helps SSJID growers
The rain so far this month is far from being a drought breaker but it will help South San Joaquin Irrigation District stretch available water supplies by delaying the need to start irrigation runs until early April.
Articles by Section - NEWS
Aggressive panhandling? Call police
Arresting someone for aggressive panhandling in Manteca in all likelihood will not result in punishment in the form of jail time or even community service.
SEWING WITH LOVE
The women who work in a small but well-appointed room at the Woodbridge at Del Webb club house call the place, tongue in cheek, "the sweat shop."
Lathrop moves to expand its sewer capacity
LATHROP - It isn't electricity that's important when you're building new homes.
Drive-thru dinner helps human trafficking fight
A drive-thru dinner fund-raiser is being held at Precision Automotive on Moffat Boulevard on Thursday, June 27, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. to support the non-profit organization, Without Permission.
Chief’s academy steers youth in right direction
Julian Castillo's experiences with law enforcement weren't always positive.
7 years after the peak
Property tax receipts are rebounding for the second straight year in Manteca.
Union tiff over pensions means bus cutbacks
LATHROP - A transportation labor dispute that's not even supported by the rank-and-file members of the unions that started the fight could end up drastically impacting public transit operations in San Joaquin County.
Cat in can prank goes way of tin garbage cans
It was a simple prank.
Manteca may end squeeze play at Lathrop Road intersection
The attempt at a squeeze play may end soon on westbound Lathrop Road at Madison Grove Drive.
Manteca ponders keeping lobbyist for $80,600 a year
By DENNIS WYATT
Break-a-thon raises $52,000 for hospital
BY ROSE ALBANO RISSO
Crafting letters to grandchildren to preserve past
By JASON CAMPBELL
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