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Planada toasts reopening of community gathering place

The Community Center at Houlihan Park in Planada was pretty much at the epicenter of the disastrous flooding last January. The well-used facility — situated under the trees of a recently renovated park — was suddenly inundated with water and mud inside. All the projects created by and for local senior citizens were damaged or…

Families With Kids Follow Art Current To MAC

Lisa Gilliland-Viney was happy to be teaching art inside an air-conditioned Merced Multicultural Arts Center (MAC) last Sunday when it registered 106 degrees outside. And it’s a little funny to her because that was the exact temperature Merced was experiencing when she first came to town with her husband nearly two decades ago.…