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Honoring Manteca’s ‘Flag Man’
By DENNIS WYATT Managing editor of the Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin In the dawn's early light this Memorial Day Les Thomas will be at his post without fail. He'll be joined by a dedicated small army of volunteers who will take the flags he hands out in multiples of four and load them into pick-up trucks, SUVs, and vans. They will then drive to the four corners of Manteca's main streets from the city's heart at ...
MADD honors South County law officers
By GLENN KAHL Staff reporter for the Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin SACRAMENTO - Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) had its annual statewide bash in Sacramento Saturday night -- honoring officers who had gone the extra mile to keep drunks off the highways. Some 500 officers and family members filled the Sheraton Grand Hotel for the sit-down dinner. Blue and tan uniforms sported shoulder patches from countless departments. DUI patrolmen from Manteca, Ripon, Lathrop and the area ...
Moms Group combines religious, social activities
When Rhonda Mix moved to Manteca four years ago, she was like a new kid on the block. "I was just so bored because I didn't know anybody," said Mix who is a wife, mom, part-time student and part-time veterinary technician all rolled into one. She didn't stay bored too long once she discovered the United Lutheran Preschool and the church's Moms Group, in that order. She happened to have a three-year-old son at that ...
Poker run honors memory of Amanda Clark
By VINCE REMBULAT Staff reporter of the Manteca (Calif.) Bulletin April is National Organ Donor Awareness month. For Manteca's Jose Zaragoza and his family, this is a matter that's near and dear to him. More than three years ago his 16-year-old son, Matthew Zaragoza Van Gelderen, an East Union High football player, was fatally injured in a non-league game at Bear Creek High. Matthew, who suffered a brain contusion that Sept. 16, 2005, died a ...
2 traffic tourniquets along Louise targeted for widening
Driving Louise Avenue - one of the heaviest traveled streets in Manteca and Lathrop - will get a lot easier by this time in 2010.
SSJID on green’s cutting edge
The cutting edge of the green power movement isn't in Berkeley nor is it in San Francisco.
One out of 7 Mantecans unemployed
Manteca unemployment has nearly doubled in the past year to a record post World War II rate of 14.4 percent in March.
Purple pipe now paid for 9 years after 350 jobs were in jeopardy
The Eckert's pipeline project was arguably one of the most ingenious and profitable decisions ever to come from Manteca's City Hall as a result of a threat from the state to pull the plug on 350 private sector jobs.
Lathrop establishing rules for water parks
LATHROP - City of Lathrop has two state-of-the-art interactive water play areas that were completed last year.
Poker tourney benefits Manteca homeless shelters
Bob Raymus believes the homeless – many who are employed 40 hours a week – need a helping hand.
CLUB CITY CRAZE
Club City – the moniker given middle school dances staged by the Manteca Youth Advisory Commission in conjunction with the Manteca Parks and Recreation Department at the Golden West Community Gym on North Main Street – was the place to be Friday for the pre-teen set.
WHEELCHAIR TENNIS
The best players in Northern California were in Manteca Saturday for the city's fourth annual wheelchair tennis tournament at the Manteca Regional Tennis Center on Union Road in front of the golf course.
COPS, TRIKES, BIKES & HELPING ILL KIDS
Manteca Police help Stella Brockman students raise funds for St. Jude's.
She delivers for Manteca
Jennifer Gowans couldn't help but get emotional as she stepped up to the lectern early Friday afternoon to address the family, friends, and co-workers that had gathered in her honor.
CHP dispatcher meets 2 year-old he helped save from choking
Manteca's Anthony Martin – a CHP dispatcher in Stockton – was credited for his life-saving actions Friday morning that saved the life of a two-year-old toddler two months ago.
Articles by Section - NEWS
Diocese will pay $875K in sex abuse settlement
STOCKTON – The Diocese of Stockton has reached a negotiated settlement with attorneys for a man who was a victim of sexual abuse in the 1980s by defrocked Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady.
Roof work extra hot for air conditioning repair guys
It's not the dark roofs that bother Ed Kramer.
Air District offers $1 million for electric mower purchases
Back by popular demand, the San Joaquin Valley Air District's Clean Green Yard Machines program starts today with more funding and more lawn mower options.
Will Manteca reach 111 degrees?
Manteca's municipal leaders don't want to make a deadly mistake.
Back in the day you sweated & used fans
When Shorty Wolf was growing up on a dairy farm on the outskirts of Manteca, his family didn't have any power, let alone air conditioning.
STILL GOING STRONG
Like many farmers in the area at this time of the year, John Mendes is busy cutting and baling hay in the fields, and storing them for winter feed.
BODY BURIED IN NEIGHBORHOOD
The remains collected from the yard of a Manteca residence have been confirmed to be those of a missing Stockton woman Karen Sterzl, 36, when she disappeared in December of 1990.
Is panhandling getting worse?
Is panhandling becoming too aggressive in Manteca?
HAPPY ENDING
When an arsonist torched the playground equipment at McFall School for the second time in three years back in March, it was the students that lost out.
Police looking for man who lost his bank roll
Manteca Police have been unable to contact the man who lost his $2,200 bank roll at a fast food restaurant on May 3 with the good news that KHOP 95.1 radio listeners and the El Pollo Loco corporate office in Southern California want to help.
Hot time at opening farmers’ market of season
The heat wasn't enough to keep Josh Johnson inside Tuesday afternoon.
New Union Road interchange
There was no Union Road interchange 20 years ago on the 120 Bypass.
Tracy pays $5M, gets Lathrop out from under water
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 leaders reviewing budget plan today at 4
LATHROP - It's that time of year again.
Downtown water feature back up and running
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.
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