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It’s the final year for Madera’s original ‘Palm and Pine’

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Our Central Valley By STEVE NEWVINE If you spend any time on California Highway 99 south of Madera, you are aware of the palm and the pine. Two trees, the palm representing southern California and the pine (actually in this case a cedar) representing northern California, have been in the median just south of the Route 12…
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It’s A Forest In The Old Courthouse

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By SARAH LIM Special to the Times Drum rolls, please. The results are in: The prize for the tallest Christmas tree is tied between the Sheriff Posse and the Courthouse Museum, the smallest Christmas tree goes to the Merced County Times, bragging rights for the longest decorating history is shared by Soroptimist International of…
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Zimbabwean filmmaker, activist chosen for Spendlove Prize

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By JODY MURRAY UC Merced Newsroom Tsitsi Dangarembga, a renowned Zimbabwean filmmaker, novelist and cultural activist, was selected as the 16th recipient of the Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize in Social Justice, Diplomacy and Tolerance. Tsitsi Dangarembga is best known for her critically acclaimed 1988 debut novel, “Nervous…
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‘Le Grand’ Blossomed Along Santa Fe Railroad

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Le Grand is an active little town in the southeastern part of Merced County, near Planada and Plainsburg. This unincorporated town in 2022 had a population of about 1,700 people. Le Grand came into existence when the Santa Fe Railroad came through in 1894-1896. Up until that time just a very few homes were in the area. The…