National speaker Ray Lozano went to the Merced Theater on March 11, and spoke to 1,950 students from area schools. Ray has a great talent for keeping students interested in listening to the topic of the detrimental effects of alcohol, drug abuse, and vaping. The high school students came from Golden Valley, El Capitan, Merced, Atwater,…

The first Merced County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (HCC) Spring Business Seminar was held last Thursday at Wired Café in downtown Merced. The keynote…

Angelica “Jelly” Soza will be presenting her lecture, “The Impacts of Music on Children’s Academic Performance,” on Thursday, April 18, from 7 p.m. to 8:30…

When Raj Kahlon was a young boy he had dreams of one day. becoming a farmer, even though his father was a businessman. Little did he know, his humble beginnings would lead to that dream becoming a reality. In a relatively short amount of time, Kahlon has become a prominent local pistachio and almond farmer, building the Kahlon family business.…

It was a Hall of Fame weekend. Merced High School Athletics celebrated and honored the 2019 Hall of Fame inductees last Saturday inside Yosemite Hall of…

You truly never know where or when inspiration is going to strike. Blake Brigham certainly didn’t see his moment coming from a softball game. It could…

To help prepare middle-school students for the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), UC Merced’s Center for Educational Partnership (CEP) collaborated with four local school districts to launch a series of Saturday math academies at the UC Merced campus. The academies began late last month and run for eight weeks.…

With nearly a third of all food worldwide being wasted and millions of people going hungry every day, preventing food from going to waste is a crucial…

Young Mercedians and their parents filled Calvary Assembly of God in South Merced on Friday afternoon as the Isaiah Project After School Program once again…