IN UNIFORM

Carilynn Keeney

ODDS & ENDS

Measure K keeps SJ moving

Every time someone buys a dollar's worth of taxable merchandise in San Joaquin County they are contributing a half cent to fix potholes, build major roadways, construct railroad crossings, secure bike paths and roadway landscaping plus help advance rail and bus transportation.

Lathrop spending $3,500 on reception for chief

LATHROP – Lathrop resident and businessman J. Chaka Santos adamantly opposed the city's plan to hold a $3,500 catered appreciation event for up to 200 people at the Community Center in honor of outgoing Chief of Police Dolores Delgado.

Reggie Ginn promoting mini-tour on Sacramento KMAX-31 channel

Could vampires in love be the jumping off-point for a successful music career?

Supersizing of McMansions during 2000s

The 1950s was the era of the flat-top in Manteca with a typical home – even those with traditional roof lines - consisting of a one-car garage, a little over 800 square feet and two bedrooms and a bathroom.

Lathrop: To tweet or not to tweet?

LATHROP – Councilman Robert Oliver provided the comic relief during an otherwise serious discussion Monday night.

3-car crash sends woman to hospital

A pickup truck, a Honda SUV and a Toyota passenger car mixed it up in an intersection crash Monday morning at about 11 a.m. sending a Manteca woman to the hospital.

FESM starts off January crab feeds in Manteca

It's January and it can mean only one thing in Manteca – the start of the crab feed season.

Full speed ahead on outlets

Crews are working seven days a week to finish what will be Manteca's biggest retail coup of 2010 – upscale outlet stores.

The green crush

RIPON - Anthony Beato has a passion for his lot in life – between his family, rock crushing, and his church.

Rubber really meets the road in Manteca

Old tires may just end up on your street – in the asphalt that is.

Delicato Vineyards fine art show entries open thru Jan. 8

Delicato Vineyards is holding its 22nd annual Fine Art Show from Saturday, Jan. 16 through Saturday, Feb. 6.

New visitors center

‘Are You Being Served?’ opens Jan. 13 at Stockton Civic Theatre

STOCKTON - Stockton Civic Theatre will present "Are You Being Served?", the hilarious British comedy based on the most popular PBS Television Series in history, produced in England, and written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft from Jan. 13 through Feb. 17.

Troop box packing marks Palmer’s birthday

Chuck and Teri Palmer will celebrate the birthday of their slain son by sending gifts overseas.

Herbs topic Monday for garden club

Adria Afferino of The Greenery Nursery will be the featured speaker at the Monday, March 17, meeting of the Manteca Garden Club. She will be speaking on growing, harvesting, and preserving herbs.

1964: Pitch made to turn old sewer plant into golf course

40 years ago

Manteca’s municipal pit bull rules

If you live in Manteca and own a pit bull breed you either have to get it fixed, qualify as a legitimate breeder through a set of tight rules, or risk becoming a criminal and having the dog destroyed.

FIRST COMES BABY

It was an unexpected and emotional engagement party at Doctors Hospital Monday morning for a Manteca couple that's been together for some six years.

SSJID water gives almond growers edge

Call it a silver lining.

River Islands going after 16,000 jobs

Distribution and warehousing are spurring job growth in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

Rare rabbits matter at RI

A hunter back in the late 1990s shot a rabbit along Paradise Cut on Stewart Tract.

Police Chief speaks Thursday at Patriots meeting

Manteca's Chief Police Chief Nick Obligacion is speaking Thursday, March 13, at a meeting of the Manteca Patriots from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Chez Shari at the Manteca Golf Course on North Union Road.

Endangered riparian brush rabbit is found only south & west of Manteca

The riparian brush rabbit is an endangered species now limited to just two tiny populations in Caswell State Park six miles south of Manteca and other spots further downstream.

Ripon board considers Colony Oak upgrade contract

The time is nearing for construction to begin at Weston School.

Apartment developer wants Lathrop sewer

It was a scenario that city engineer Glen Gebhardt had never before seen.

Colony Oak principal leaves school

Marlon Gayle is no longer the principal of Colony Oak Elementary School in Ripon.

Hearts & Hands opens new Manteca location

There was a time when CiCi Juarez had a hard time gauging the people of Manteca. She was new to The Family City, and fittingly, the Bay Area transplant felt like an outsider.

A COMMUNITY IS BORN

The second a stolen vehicle rolls onto one of four bridges that will access River Islands at Lathrop law enforcement will be alerted.