The City of Stockton brings the holidays to life with events, food, entertainment, and lots of holiday cheer throughout December. Beginning on Saturday, December 7, 2024, with the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony at Weber Point Events Center, 221 N. Center St. Gates open at 3:00 p.m., and weather permitting, there will be lots of holiday festivities. Don’t miss the tree lighting at 5:30 p.m., which will take place rain or shine.

Phonxay Keokham, San Joaquin County Treasurer-Tax Collector, hereby announces that fiscal year 2024-25 annual secured tax bills have been mailed to all property owners at the addresses shown on the tax roll.

The Reynolds Gallery at the University of the Pacific is excited to announce Stockton Seen, an exhibition highlighting the collaborative spirit and artistic legacy of four distinguished faculty artists: Larry Walker, Barbara Flaherty, Carla Malone, and Chisato Nishioka Watanabe.

San Joaquin County Public Health Services has confirmed a West Nile Virus (WNV) infection in San Joaquin County. This is the first confirmed human case in the county for 2024, and the 28th reported human case in California for this year. The 57-year-old male Stockton resident has received medical services at a Sacramento area healthcare facility.

With about 80% of the debris on the coast originating from inland water sources, you will also be helping to keep trash off the coastal beaches.

Fred was born January 29, 1942 in East Prussia. His father died in the WWII battle of Stalingrad, and so in 1951 Fred, his older brother, Rudy, and mother, Lydia, immigrated to Los Angeles to live with an aunt. There Fred enrolled in school, learning English by immersion. Three years later, Lydia remarried, and they moved to Orange County. Fred graduated from Western High School in Anaheim in 1960, and then went on to Biola College in La Mirada, California to earn his BA Degree. During this time, Fred also served as part-time Youth Pastor at his home church, Magnolia Baptist in Anaheim, where he met Kathy. After Fred and Kathy were married in 1965, they moved to Sioux Falls, SD, where he completed an MDiv. Degree in Biblical Studies at the North American Baptist Seminary.

The pressing issue of rising inflation is affecting the Emergency Food Bank and the nonprofit sector as a whole. As inflation rates reach unprecedented levels, many charitable organizations
including the Food Bank are experiencing a significant decrease in monetary donations, jeopardizing our ability to provide essential services to those in need.

San Joaquin Delta College trustees have chosen Dr. Armando Valerio, a physical therapist who is active in many community organizations and causes, to serve on Delta’s governing board.

The City of Stockton Miner Avenue Complete Streets project has been selected as the 2022 Outstanding Road and Highway Project, by the American Society of Civil Engineers Sacramento Section. The project will be recognized at the 2022 Sacramento Section Project Awards Banquet on November 4, 2023.

Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Medical Center (SJMC) has been recognized as one of the nation’s 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals™ according to an independent quality analysis provided by PINC AI™ and reported by Fortune.  

To select top performers, an objective, independent, quantitative research analysis was performed using publicly available data measuring cardiac care in the United States.