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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. RIVER ISLANDS TURNS GOLD INTO ‘PLATINUM’ GREEN Four amusement parks with timeshares gave way to 11,000-home planned Lathrop project The Boathouse Restaurant is on the water’s edge.
River Islands at Lathrop the planned 11,000-home project that has emerged as the platinum standard in developing a planned community that embraces environmental concerns and is designed with people friendly neighborhoods was once known as Gold Rush City.
Gold Rush City was a planned amusement park that had a western theme.
Plans called for it to be joined by a wild animal park, a space themed amusement park, and a massive outdoor water park.
Endangered species living in our own backyard: From longhorn beetles to riparian brush rabbits PERSPECTIVE The endangered valley elderberry longhorn beetle.
The valley elderberry longhorn beetle is a rare sight these days along the banks of the Stanislaus River.
It is arguably more elusive with than the riparian brush rabbit.
If you have never heard of either, that’s because the removal of more than 90 percent riparian woodlands throughout much of the San Joaquin Valley over the past 150 years has taken them from once being as plentiful of the herds of Tule elk that roamed the valley that’s served as meals for the California Grizzly Bear that when standing on its hind legs could stretch almost 10 feet and weighed upwards of 830 pounds.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Lathrop offering $5,000 COVID pandemic lifeline to its small businesses
Earlier this year Lathrop’s small business that were struggling amidst the first stay-at-home order were given a lifeline by the City of Lathrop and its small business grants aimed at keeping local shops and stores afloat.
And now that a second – albeit modified – stay-at-home order is now in place they’re opening the window for businesses to apply for a second round of grant funding to help offset losses stemming from the pandemic and the government response to it.