Hospice tree lighting takes place Wednesday

It was an all volunteer effort for PG&E linemen who installed some 1200 lights on the Hospice of San Joaquin Christmas tree.

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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.

Honoring the ultimate sacrifice

The pastor. The retired steel worker. The congressman.

SSJID fights to protect water

The South San Joaquin Irrigation District has something that at least two thirds of California wants - water.

New homes = $2.6M in bonus bucks

Bonus bucks are back.

Manteca may allow hookah lounges, other tobacco uses

The city that led the drive in California in the 1970s to ban the sale of cigarettes from vending machines accessible to children may now make hookah lounges legal.

Immigrant tops Sierra grad class

Leonor Borges will be the first person in her family to go to college.