Riverbank News

All three candidates for the City Council described themselves Thursday night as deeply involved in the community and capable of making tough budget choices.

Info: The BEAT Health Fair features on-site nurses who will administer screenings of body mass index, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol.

State Sen. Cathleen Galgiani, D-Stockton, will host monthly mobile district offices in Manteca and Tracy, as well as other cities in her 5th Senate District.

A Stockton resident was uninjured in a two-car crash that killed a Riverbank man shortly after 11:15 a.m. Friday in Ripon, authorities said.

Info: Members of the VFW Post 3199, Modesto will conduct their annual Memorial Day "Buddy Poppy" Drive.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

Riverbank is diverging from tradition in using a private vendor to conduct the June 4 special election, but voters might not notice much difference.

Cal Campbell, Jeremy Fennell and Diana Gonzalez are running in a June 4 special election for the seat vacated when Richard O'Brien was elected mayor in November.

Info: The Catholic Professional and Business Club holds its monthly breakfast meeting.

Oscar Zeta Acosta — hero to the Chicano movement, hard-living pal of Hunter S. Thompson — first raised hell in Riverbank.

Checkpoints and saturation patrols around Stanislaus County will be used to combat drunk driving this Cinco de Mayo weekend.

The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department has denied an application from former Riverbank City Councilman Jesse James White, who was seeking to serve his one-year jail sentence at home with a GPS monitoring device.

Two candidates for the Riverbank City Council said Wednesday that they would get city finances on track in the short term and carefully plan for population growth in the long term.