After nearly three decades of dedication to the Merced College community, Debi Swarts Wilson will be retiring from her position as a counselor in the Disabled Students Program and Services (DSPS) on campus. Swarts, a lifelong Merced resident, has been a tireless advocate for students with disabilities. She had made sure her…

Soroptimist International of Merced will host a free, day-long conference for local high school girls interested in learning about career…

Steve Tietjen, the superintendent of schools for the Merced County Office of Education (MCOE), says he couldn’t be more proud of the support and cooperation…

In January 2020, when her Facebook feed was full of beautiful tributes and memorials in honor of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Jenni Samuelson was introduced to the play “If All the Sky Were Paper,” a compelling compilation of recovered American wartime letters curated and converted into monologues by historian…

Four-time New York Times best-selling author, playwright and historian, Andrew Carroll, will visit Merced this May to interact with local military…

Bee honest, if you will. Can you spell “penicillin” or “aggregate” without looking up (or googling) those words? How about define them?…

By ANH DIEP UC Merced Professor Katrina Hoyer ’s lab is helping UC Merced serve the San Joaquin Valley community through its studies of immune responses to Valley fever and other diseases. Graduate students Susana Tejeda-Garibay and Nadia Miranda are exploring fungal and host immune interactions in Valley fever, and they have…

By LUCIANA CHAVEZ Do you become a leader with the right job title? Or does the universe anoint you when your talent and skill combine to demand it?…

The Atwater Elementary School District celebrated the first step in construction of a 50,000 square foot Transitional Kindergarten through Sixth…

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 Fremont School in Merced watched a video called “Kindness Boomerang” by Life Vest Inside,  a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring, empowering and educating people of all backgrounds to…