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Nearly a month ago, Merced Fire Engineer Grant Parker and a few fellow firefighters were navigating a narrow mountain road in near pitch-black conditions, with fire flaring up at them from all sides. They got through that inferno unharmed with only some singed equipment, but Parker admits that 30-second experience was unsettling.…

Sharon Freeman of Mariposa is going to the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City this week, taking her Icelandic Sheep Dog…

Eric Hamm spent about 25 years in the automotive sales business and now is venturing into selling homes in Merced. Hamm, president of Next Door Real Estate…

Golden Valley High School has turned 25 years old and this noteworthy anniversary is being marked here Feb. 8 with the first-ever Outstanding Alumni and Staff Hall of Fame Dinner. Kevin Swartwood, principal of the Childs Avenue campus, said many people are surprised the school has been around for a quarter century and are eagerly…

Eleven years ago Mellissa Mondragon was nearly killed in a collision with a semi truck in Merced. The traumatic brain injury meant she had to…

Despite facing three challengers in the March 3 election, Merced County Supervisor Lee Lor is confident she will be re-elected for her second four-year…

For some Merced High School students, the old gym on campus was a winter wonderland last Friday night. A large number of special education students taking classes there through the Merced County Office of Education got a chance to attend a formal dance in their honor and enjoy all the activity that swirls around such an occasion. Candy…

By September 2021, Merced will have a new children's outpatient care center costing millions of dollars. The new complex within sight of Mercy Medical Center…

Some of my most cherished memories growing up were the cross-country automobile trips we took from California to Michigan and New York in the summers. My…

It's always fun to check out cars — muscle cars, classic cars, modern cars, flat cars. Flat cars? Yes, my enjoyment of all things automotive extends to flattened cars laying forlornly on a flatbed truck, on their way to a junkyard or scrapyard. I get a kick out of seeing cars and trucks even in a pretty much unrecognizable form.…