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Fantastic online auction items await community members from now until 5 p.m. on April 1, and besides pure enjoyment and fun, purchasers will be helping an Atwater Rotary Club community service project! Imagine a beach house vacation, tickets to San Francisco baseball games, homemade goodies galore, restaurant gift certificates, cars for the…

Joel Dorman, the senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Merced, located at 500 Buena Vista Drive in Merced, is looking forward to a busy season as we move…

Rod Webster, president of the Sierra Club in Merced, is involved in a local effort to help create more habitat for the western monarch butterfly population…

The Atwater Elementary School District celebrated the first step in construction of a 50,000 square foot Transitional Kindergarten through Sixth Grade school on a 10-acre site next to Joan Faul Park in Atwater with a groundbreaking ceremony at Juniper Avenue and Bridgewater Street. Juniper Elementary, the ninth elementary, will be…

Dr. Kristynn Sullivan, Merced County’s Supervising Epidemiologist, told the Times, “On Jan. 20, there were 1,140 new COVID cases in Merced County, which marked…

As part of new counseling strategies created with the aim of lessening the impact of COVID on kids, on Feb. 11, 31 fifth graders in their classroom at…

Merced County’s development of a north county Behavioral Health clinic at 7099 California Street in Winton is an exciting new project in the community, which is anticipated to significantly benefit the entire northern part of Merced County. “Our department has been looking for a north county campus for a couple years,” said Genevieve…

Exciting public library programming involving STEAM learning is in the works for local teens throughout the community. Merced County Public Library…

Carrie O’Bara, a Transitional Kindergarten teacher at Peggy Heller School in Atwater, created a fun and educational celebration of the 100th day…

Stephanie Atkinson, who has been Office Manager at Playhouse Merced since last September, feels she is working at the new and improved Playhouse because the theater is doing things that haven’t been done before, and everyone is excited. She told the Times, “Part of the reason I feel this way is we have a new Artistic Director and new Education…