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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

Shoppers swarm over stores on Black Friday

Not even the cold was enough to keep people away from the Black Friday rush.

Home about to become legal house of worship

A residence at the southeast corner of Woodward Avenue and Airport Way is about to officially become a house of worship.

Live nativity at Calvary Christian Reformed

RIPON - The Christmas Story "The Living Nativity" is set for Thursday and Friday nights, Dec. 11-12, outside Ripon's Calvary Reformed Church at the corner of Second and Vera avenues.

Mantecan serving as Honduran vote observer

Mark Oliver has insured many things over his life – cars, houses, and businesses.

Quicki-Kleen teams up with customers and donates 100+ turkeys to 2nd Harvest

The white streamers hanging in the ceiling of Quicki-Kleen Car Wash's convenience store are not the expensive type. But for Francine Escobar, the owner of business on East Yosemite Avenue across from Lincoln Elementary School, each of the more than 100 pieces of white paper simply adorned with a black-and-white illustration of a turkey is priceless.

$2M facelift for two miles of Louise Ave.

A two-mile stretch of Louise Avenue is getting a $2 million makeover between Airport Way and Main Street this spring.

Court ruling shoots down ‘good cause’ for concealed guns

A federal appeals court known for its liberal-leanings struck down a mandate on Thursday that could make it easier for California residents to obtain concealed weapons permits.

Their love is still in full bloom

There's still magic in the air between Michele and Eric Davis – a Manteca couple who will have been married 25 years on Saturday.

Ripon’s Mary Cariged marks 102nd birthday

Mary Cariged of Ripon celebrated her 102nd birthday on Wednesday.

George ‘Pumpkin King’ & Vi Perry

When George and Violet Perry celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary, their five children knew exactly what special song they were going to dedicate to their parents to mark that momentous day.

Chance meeting led to love at first sight, then marriage

In 2006, the Seattle Seahawks made their first-ever Super Bowl appearance, facing the Pittsburgh Steelers at Ford Field in Detroit.