Suspense built on the morning of April 27 at Merced River School District’s Washington School, located at 4402 Oakdale Road in Winton, as a five-month long Participatory Budgeting process culminated in fourth through eighth grade students arriving at the “polls,” which were actual Merced County voting booths set up on campus, to…

About 900 entries from students throughout Merced County were received for the Merced County Writing Festival this spring. Students submitted entries virtually…

On a day that’s being viewed as a major milestone in the Black Lives Matter movement, civil rights activist and #BLM co-founder Alicia Garza was…

This summer, Merced College for Kids (CFK) will offer in-person outdoor classes, as well as virtual classes, and registration is available starting April 9. Last month, based on new COVID guidelines, Lupe Ramirez, Merced College Community Education Coordinator, put out the word to CFK instructors to let them know if they were scheduled to teach…

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has been selected as the recipient for this year’s Alice and Clifford Spendlove Prize at UC Merced. A virtual …

By Juan Sánchez Muñoz Fifty-five years ago this week, a major movement in U.S. civil rights history spent the night in Merced on its march from Delano to…

By LUCIANA CHAVEZ Special to Merced College This is the story about how Noel Felix came to feel at home on the Los Banos campus of Merced College, and how the support he found there changed his life. Understand that when Felix graduated from Los Banos High School in 2015, his mother had passed away a few years earlier, he had just turned…

The Merced Union High School District (MUHSD) Board of Trustees, which consists of a president, vice president, clerk, and two other board members, held a…

Merced College has announced that it will hold in-person commencement ceremonies in May for the Class of 2020 and the Class of 2021, under a plan approved…