Patterson News

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.

When a fourth grader in the town of Patterson, California left for school this morning, he expected lessons in math, english and science.

PATTERSON, Calif. - A T-shirt with President Barack Obama's picture on it didn't go over too well with a school teacher on Monday.

Remoni Tufono's favorite T-shirt bears the image of a smiling President Obama and the words "HI haters." The 10-year-old boy, a fourth-grader at Northmead Elementary School in Patterson, has worn the shirt to class several times since the school year began in August, said his mother, Deminica Tufono.

Northbound Interstate 5 near Sperry Avenue west of Patterson was closed briefly Sunday to load a badly injured driver into a medical helicopter.

By unanimous vote, the Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday: * Accepted a $374,000 state off-highway vehicle grant, keeping services intact at two hilly parks popular with off-roaders, one near La Grange in east Stanislaus County and at Frank Raines Regional Park in the Diablo Range, 17 miles west of Patterson.

INFO: Catholic Charities needs transportation in the Newman, Patterson and Crows Landing areas for seniors 60 years or older who require rides to locations throughout Stanislaus County.

Supporters say: It's a natural for economic development. Opponents say: This project would leap into prime farmland and break a natural city barrier.