Patterson News

Question: What is the history of the property between Tulare, North U, Mariposa and Divisadero, where the Farmers Market was? -- Larry Shamp, Houston Answer: The T.W. Patterson home sat on the 4 acres where the Farmers Market shopping center was built at 3211 Tulare St.

Golden Valley Health Centers received a second dose of federal stimulus funding, but needs to clear some hurdles before spending the money on brick-and- mortar projects to serve 6,600 additional patients.

WHEN: Tuesday, 7 a.m., Mass; 7:30, breakfast WHERE: DoubleTree Hotel, 1150 Ninth St.

The attack last weekend that took the lives of four police officers near Seattle brought back painful memories for the police chief in Ripon.

Formalized fees to rent sports facilities and a senior center will be reviewed Tuesday by Patterson City Council members.

Leticia Solano, 25, of Patterson died from injuries suffered in an accident Tuesday night at Washington Road and West Main Street in Turlock, according to the Stanislaus County coroner's office.

The U.S. Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin of a lawsuit against the city of Patterson this week when it refused to review a lower court decision that struck down the city's affordable housing fees.

WHEN: Thursday, noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Senior Citizens Center, 211 Bodem Ave. INFO: The Modesto Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting with guest speaker Michael Merritt.

COPING WITH HOLIDAY BLUES When: Tuesday, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Info: An interactive seminar will highlight ways to cope and help put the holidays in perspective.

People with interest in local road planning have an array of meetings to choose from in coming days, covering issues ranging from crosswalks to Salida overpasses to the North County Corridor.

International guitar duo Stevan Pasero and Richard Patterson have together released more than 50 CDs and sold millions of records.

Suffering one of California's highest pet-kill rates is reason enough to become its first government agency to share a shelter with a private sterilization clinic, Stanislaus County supervisors decided Tuesday on a split vote.

The best part of this story is how sloppy the ID thieves were. Recently at the 76 gas station just off Interstate 5 in Patterson, those thieves removed a scanning device from a credit card reader and put in their own.

A manager at a Patterson gas station discovered a device used to steal credit card information from customers at one of the gas pumps, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department reported Wednesday.

Despite initial misgivings about the cost, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took a step toward joining a state loan program that would provide long-term loans to homeowners and businesses to install solar panels, improve window and wall insulation, and otherwise increase their energy efficiency.

They're not amazing tenors. They won't wow audiences with dizzying pirouettes. They're not even related, nor are they from Russia.

SOUNDS LIKE: Indie-pop/indie-rock, and some surf. The word "Twee" also has been thrown around.

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.

Yet one more oldie-but-goodie, La Sumida has been pleasing people who plant since 1958.

Almost a year after a book-banning controversy erupted, seven candidates are vying for two seats on the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District Board of Education.