Hughson News

If you don't mind a little drive, mark your calendars for November 14-15 when Bass Jam 09 opens in Cotati with admission is free.

As voters trek to the polls today, they'll have to plow through a thicket of conflicting information, rumors and accusations.

Info: The Stanislaus County Library Foundation and the Friends of the Library are offering Halloween parties at local libraries.

Is it part of a city manager's job description to get fired, or resign by "mutual agreement," or does it only seem that way? Hughson's City Council began dismissal proceedings against City Manager Joe Donabed last week and replaced him, for the time being, with planning and building director Thom Clark.

Another city manager in Stanislaus County could be in trouble. Patterson City Council members held a special closed-door session Tuesday to discuss City Manager Cleve Morris, a day after Hughson leaders voted 3-2 to dismiss their city manager.

When it comes to real estate prices, some small towns are doing much better than big ones in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

Student performances, guest speakers and bingo are on hand today for a Lights on Afterschool Rally in Hughson.

Two very different pictures of city government - neither of them flattering - emerged Tuesday.

They've read the news. They've heard the dangers. But to many parents, the swine flu just doesn't seem all that much worse than regular flu.

The city will pay $72,000 to fix a sewer break that affected a private school and briefly shut down a milk plant.

Cloyd F. Angle had a plan to avoid paying taxes. Unfortunately for the family of the late San Joaquin Valley almond farmer, it didn't work out too well.

About 2,500 students from Fairview, El Vista, Franklin, Hughson, Shackelford, Alberta Martone, Empire, Bret Harte and Orville Wright elementary schools will be walking to school this month along with parents, teachers and community leaders.

Duarte Nursery of Hughson will have an open house Wednesday for growers interested in planting olive orchards.

The Hughson City Council will consider matters relating to LeBright Fields, the city's only athletic fields, at a meeting with an otherwise light agenda today.

Sounds Like: The sound of the band is unique. The players come from very different backgrounds.

Residents of Oakdale, Lodi and Hughson argued for and against the policy of praying at meetings, but in the end the City Council opted to agree with a self- described "nobody special, just a chubby, gray-haired guy who's lived in Turlock for a little over 20 years": "This community is one that was built on faith and trust in God," said Dan Blank.

An inmate at the Stanislaus County Jail in downtown Modesto died after jailers used a Taser to subdue him as he was being moved to another cell Wednesday afternoon, sheriff's officials reported Friday.

The Hughson Family Resource Center will honor an individual, a family foundation and a business at its Harvest of Hope awards dinner Saturday.

Garrett Oslin spent the last hours of his life knowing he was loved - by his mother and father, his two sisters, his extended family and the literally hundreds of people around the world who took time out of busy lives to mail him a simple note eliciting a smile.

Family members have planned a "shorts and flip-flops" celebration of life for Don Futch at 1 p.m. Saturday at Roland Starn Park on Tully Road in Hughson.