The homeless in Manteca aren't – for the vast majority – drug abusers or lazy.
Best-selling author and natural health coach Elodia Tate is the featured speaker for the July 15 Manteca Women's Connection luncheon.
Retired San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young sent a personal congratulatory video to Saturday night's Court of Honor that inducted 10 new Eagle Scouts.
The farmers market is offering a coupon with an option for a $1 off or an item under a buck for free at the La Croissant Bakery booth for the first 100 visitors on Tuesday
90 years ago June 27, 1919 The Firemen report everything ready for the big rodeo which will start next Friday morning. A big force of men went to work Wednesday morning to finish the fence which surrounds the park. The grandstand is practically complete. The lot of horses which will be used in the races are here and are being put in good condition for the bucking contests and the races. Lucky McFall, manager ...
Health officials are warning people to use caution today through Tuesday as the summer's first sustained heat wave arrives in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
The Ripon LSD Boy Scout Troop 440 is approaching a nation-wide record tonight as it salutes 10 Eagle Scouts in a Court of Honor.
How much do you know about the Portuguese festa, or the festas in Manteca? The word festa alone does not tell the whole story but simply connotes something much bigger and more meaningful. That much I've learned through the years of enjoying the annual celebrations in Manteca. For instance, the flyer that went out for this Sunday's MRPS festa announced, "Manteca-Ripon Pentecost Society 90th annual Holy Ghost Celebration," with the last three words in large ...
Volunteers getting ready for the massive crowd that turns out every year for the MRPS festa celebration started preparing the massive pots of beef and cabbage that will be served even before dawn on Friday.
PMZ Real Estate conducted an open house Thursday at their new Manteca location on the corner of Winters Drive and East Yosemite Avenue.
STOCKTON – The clock will soon be off and running for local astronaut Jose M. Hernandez. On Aug. 7, he's scheduled to make his first-ever exploration into space aboard the shuttle, Discovery. A kick-off reception for Hernandez, who's assigned to serve as a mission specialist's flight engineer, is planned for Wednesday, July 1, at the ball room of the Lexington Plaza Waterfront, 110 W. Fremont St., Stockton, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The event honoring ...
Cortney Nicole Nunes' name was misspelled in the story on the tragic traffic accident on page 1 in Friday's Manteca Bulletin that killed one and injured four.
St. Anthony Knights of Columbus Council 10693 in Manteca has announced its new officers for 2009-10.
The Lathrop Police Services division of the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department will be hosting a second session of its annual Junior Police Academy this summer.
Victorious Elite Allstars, a non-profit competitive cheer, dance and tumbling organization, is still accepting new sign-ups for the 2009-2010 season.
The heat wasn't enough to keep Josh Johnson inside Tuesday afternoon.
There was no Union Road interchange 20 years ago on the 120 Bypass.
LATHROP - For two years the City of Lathrop has been on the hook for water payments that a defunct developer initially agreed to cover.
LATHROP - It's that time of year again.
The Library Park interactive water feature is back up and running just in time for the opening this afternoon of this summer's Downtown Manteca Certified Farmers' Market.
The annual Antone Raymus Golf Tournament on Saturday, June 8, will once again include a car show.
Flames from a vegetation fire along Highway 99 jumped the freeway Sunday shortly before 3 p.m. putting motorists in danger from the smoke that spread over the traffic lanes. Ripon firefighters at the same time were called to a vehicle collision on Milgeo and Cypress avenues. Units responded to the crash and called on the Modesto Regional Fire Department out of the Salida station to cover the vegetation fire while they were busy with power ...
The key to being successful isn't necessarily being the smartest person in the room. It's being the most adaptable person in the room. And when Jake Guerin saw that traditional birthday parties weren't meeting the changing interests of the youth of today he was smart enough to realize that was a chance to capture a market desperate for something new. G Factor Gaming was born. After recognizing that kids were more interested in XBox and ...
Proposed new rules could mean future City of Ripon city administrators would have to reside within the Ripon Unified School District - unless an exception is granted by the City Council. Ripon's elected leaders will decide Tuesday when the council meets at 7 p.m., at City Hall, 259 North Wilma Ave., whether to amend the municipal code pertaining to the city administrator's employment in such a fashion and to have it brought back for a ...
STOCKTON (AP) - Sport fish from rivers and streams in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have higher levels of mercury in their systems than fish taken from anywhere else in California, a new survey has found.
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK (AP) - Yosemite National Park rangers are searching for a 19-year-old Sacramento man who was swept over a waterfall while swimming in the Merced River.
Watts Equipment Company is one of the many firms that has stepped up to the plate to support the efforts of the Second Harvest Food Bank in Manteca's Industrial Park. Food Bank CEO Mike Mallory has nothing but gratitude for Watts' efforts and those of its president Shirley Perreira in supplying commercial forklifts and their needed parts and service at his Industrial Park Drive location in Manteca that feeds the hungry in both San Joaquin ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Just back from his part-time home in Mexico, former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura dangled the idea Friday that he could run for the U.S. presidency in 2016.
A 53-year-old Railroad Flat man was arrested by Ripon P:olice officers shortly before noon Saturday allowing them to recover some $5,000 in merchandise from three Tractor Supply stores in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. Shawn Michael Tegen was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on multiple felony charges including burglary, theft utilizing a forged credit card, fraud and the possession of stolen property, according to Ripon's First Sergeant Steve Merchant. Merchant said a quick ...
Over the years, a number of accidents have sent everything from cars to a milk tanker truck into sound walls along the Louise Avenue corridor. Rarely did pieces of the masonry wall fly more than 10 or so feet. Recently a car made a glancing blow on a sound wall that was put in place as part of the Del Webb at Woodbridge housing development north of Lathrop Road on Union Road. The masonry wall ...