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Kiley Pastori was crowned Miss Merced County in November 2019 when she was 18 years old. She has held the title since. She is now 20 and is preparing to enter the Miss California competition, which will be held from June 21 through 25 in Fresno. “Holding the Miss Merced County title for this long is completely not normal, but being that…

A “Team Asadi” and “Team Merced” COVID-19 vaccination clinic was held on the afternoon of May 20 at the Merced Civic Center, and 12- to 15-year-olds were…

Riverdance Farms, an organic farm located along the meandering Merced River in Livingston, has some fun family “Pick & Gather” events planned for May…

Merced County officially moved to Orange Tier on May 25 at noon, according to the Merced County Public Health Department. Dr. Kristynn Sullivan, Merced County’s Supervising Epidemiologist, told the Times, “Our metrics have been in Orange for two consecutive weeks.  Our daily cases are at 4.1 per 100,000 residents per day, and the…

Youngsters ages 6 through 18 will have fun this summer participating in Playhouse Merced’s Summer Youth Program where they will learn parts in a musical and…

In honor of Zero Waste June, the University of California, Merced is hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on June 7 at 2 p.m. with Mitch Vanagten, an…

I was fortunate enough to be invited, along with my daughter, Christina, and granddaughter, Daisy, to an overnight Mother’s Day getaway on May 8 and 9 to experience the El Capitan Hotel, which included a meet and greet with Chef Quentin Reece Garcia, who designs the menu and then creates the meals for the restaurants Native Son and…

Suspense built on the morning of April 27 at Merced River School District’s Washington School, located at 4402 Oakdale Road in Winton, as a…

About 900 entries from students throughout Merced County were received for the Merced County Writing Festival this spring. Students submitted entries virtually…

Josie’s Mexican American Bar & Grill, a popular restaurant at 1301 Commerce Avenue in Atwater, made a decision last week to decrease the number of days it is open from five days a week to four days a week, and the family members owning and running the business are not happy about it. Since the pandemic began, the days per week…