ODDS & ENDS

Junior leadership is free to teens Teens have a chance to learn a lot about the community as well as develop leadership skills at no cost as part of the Manteca Chamber of Commerce Junior Leadership Program. The program involves once-a-month programs offering up close looks at how the community operates. The orientation will take place Saturday, Sept. 26. Team building exercises will take place at Venture Academy. Other monthly programs include military ...

Tickets on sale for museum BBQ soical

An old-fashioned tri-tip and turkey barbecue social is in its 17th year benefitting the Manteca Historical Society and Museum.

Tractors wanted for Main Street Day event

Wanted: Tractors to be displayed at Ripon's downtown Main Street. The event, sponsored by the Ripon Chamber of Commerce, is the 24th Annual Main Street Day & 7th Annual Car Show & Health Faire scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Those who want to enter their tractors in the car show are asked to fill out a form and indicate the make, model and year of the vehicle entry. Tractors ...

HONORING LABOR

Volunteers were out Monday placing 2,400 flags along Manteca streets to honor labor. The Manteca Chamber of Commerce is looking for help this Friday to place the flags again to mark the eighth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America. If you can help, contact the chamber at 823-6121.

Police helping families

Manteca Police officers and employees are digging into their own pockets to help the two families displaced after tear gas was used to end a 12-hour stand-off with bank robbers who busted in and holed up in the duplex they were living in.

Training Thursday for CERT volunteers

They were there during the 12-hour standoff in the aftermath of Thursday's bank robbery directing traffic and assisting Manteca Police with logistics.

PUMPKIN FAIR CONTESTS

Are you a pumpkin carving artist? Just how good are you at turning pumpkins into desserts? You can find out Oct. 3-4 during the Sunrise Kiwanis' 25th annual Manteca Pumpkin Fair. It is part of a street fair complete with free entertainment that is expected to draw up to 30,000 people to downtown Manteca. The carnival returns this year plus there will be a scarecrow contest for Manteca Unified students, a tractor show, free kids ...

WIND GROUNDS BALLOONS

Board may tweak bus reduction strategy

Trustees of the Manteca Unified School District could look to tweak the "no bus zone" on Tuesday.

Businessman makes dough to make money

Oudom Rattanachane knew he had something special when he purchased a Pizza Guys franchise within walking distance of Manteca High school.

TEAMSTERS PICNIC MARKS LABOR DAY

Kid Zones opening at Veritas, Cowell schools

Manteca Parks & Recreation Department is launching a Kids Zone After School Program at Veritas Elementary School.

Manteca Lions plan calamari, pasta dinner on Sept. 19 at senior center

On the surface it's just another community dinner hosted by a service club where people from all different social circles will show up for a good meal and a good time.

Ripon Chamber of Commerce plans 25th annual Main Street Day Oct. 17

RIPON - The Ripon Chamber of Commerce will present the 25th Annual Main Street Day & Car Show in Ripon on Saturday, Oct. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Emergency shelters allowed ‘by right’

HOPE Ministries' inital choice for Manteca's first family shelter in the early 1990s was a home on the 100 block of North Lincoln Avenue.

Kaiser Manteca nurses taking hospital concerns to Del Webb folks

Kaiser Manteca nurses are pounding the pavement today at Woodbridge at Del Webb to share with the residents their concerns about the state of health services at the West Yosemite Avenue medical facility.

Suspect, 19, arrested in attempted double murder

A 19-year-old Sacramento man has been arrested on attempted murder charges associated with an early morning double shooting Sept. 7 in a Victory Avenue home south of Alameda Street and east of Union Road, just blocks north of the Manteca Police Department.

Economist: Twin tunnels may be Delta death knell

FRENCH CAMP –Jeffrey Michael thought of the people at "Restore the Delta" as a "bunch of hippies" when they first papered his car with their mantra.

Higher speeds for Manteca streets

It may soon be legal to "speed" on Cottage Avenue and Atherton Drive based on current posted speed limits.

Interest is high in 14 gun bills before Brown

San Joaquin County Undersheriff Jon Picone had a few things that he wanted to talk about to the Manteca TEA Party Patriots as their featured guest Thursday night.

Manteca saves water, reduces costs with park irrigation wells

Manteca avoids using enough treated water each year to meet the needs of roughly 9,000 people.

Feng Shui changed Manteca woman’s life

Fifteen years ago Linda Kay read an article in a magazine that changed her life.

Kaiser: We’re not closing in Manteca

Kaiser Permanente is not closing its Manteca facility. That is the word from Corwin Harper who serves as senior vice president and area manager of the hospital's Central Valley area.

GREAT VALLEY BOOKFEST

The Great Valley Bookfest is bringing everything from nearly four dozen authors to gourmet food trucks to Manteca's Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley along the 120 Bypass on Saturday, Oct. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Developers pay $13,295 per acre to protect farming

The loss of farmland to build employment centers, retail and housing as part of the Austin Road Business Park could cost developers as much as $13.8 million.

Lathrop deputy credited for saving bleeding man

LATHROP – The scene just didn't look right to Lathrop Police Services' deputy Jeff Watson.