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On the evening of September 7, just before the season’s first show — “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” — Playhouse Merced celebrated the opening of its 2019-20 season, “Some Folks Dream of the Wonders They’ll Do,” with a champagne toast led by its Artistic Director, Alyse Neubert. The Toast included…

Ravello’s Restaurant & Bakery opened officially at 3360 N. State Highway 59, Suite H, on Sept. 1, with a festive ribbon-cutting ceremony. Guests…

Castle Air Museum, located at 5050 Santa Fe Drive in Atwater, hosted its Fall Open Cockpit Day on Monday, Sept. 2. One of the highlights for the guests was the opportunity to view 40 open military aircraft, which is more than half the collection. Visitors also had fun talking to the knowledgeable and friendly docents to learn interesting…

Performed at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center (“MAC”) over the weekend was “Tuesdays with Morrie”, a moving and thought-provoking play created by Mitch…

Most people have heard the great things happening in Merced’s retail world — the arrival of Dutch Brother’s Coffee, Rally’s/Checkers Burgers and Planet Fitness.…

One of the changes at the Merced City School District this year is that Chuck Pirtle at Reyes Elementary School, along with two others, Lil Ayala (Sheehy Elementary School) and Aaron Alexander (Rivera Middle School), became new principals at their schools. This does not represent a big turnover in upper level administration in that Merced…

The third annual Open House at Atwater Veterinary Center, located at 2100 Bell Drive in Atwater, was a fun community gathering on the afternoon of Aug. 24,…

Community members enjoyed an artists’ reception for three shows at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center at 645 W. Main Street in Merced on Aug. 24.…

This is the story of the Heller family in Atwater, as told to Vicki Carne, long-time Secretary of the Atwater Historical Society. Blacksmith or Pharmacist? Would E. A. Heller follow in his father’s and grandfather's footsteps and become a blacksmith, or follow his own dream and become a pharmacist? Around 1917, E. A. Heller would make his…