The Golden Valley Theatre Department's "Cougar Company" put on a colorful rendition of the classic musical "Les Miserables" for local residents over the weekend. In addition to the young actors and actresses taking to the stage, student musicians provided symphonic sounds for the melodies sung by the young actors. Each performance drew in…

By Don Martin II Shannon Nelson won the 25 lap FND Motorsports Hobby Stock Main Event last Saturday night at Merced Speedway. This was Fan…

https://youtu.be/vxiCI3cusNw Supporters of the historic Merced Theatre in downtown Merced gathered on Saturday, May 4, for the fourth annual Tacos & Tequila fundraiser at an gorgeous private residence in north Merced.  Hundreds of people attended the gathering — with a Cinco de Mayo twist — to help ongoing Theatre projects, including…

The Golden West Winds will perform at the Turlock Community Auditorium on Saturday, May 18, at 7 p.m., the final concert of the Turlock Concert Association…

Small groups of fortunate, sophisticated and fun-loving residents last weekend enjoyed the joy of friendship with the warmest and most intimate of celebrations — a tea party at the Merced County Courthouse Museum. The 24th annual Tea Party in the Courtroom featured lots of lovely ladies wearing fancy hats, darling young girls who…

One of the benefits of the cable television service I receive is the tuner, where I can mute the sound from those detestable commercials. I routinely…

This spring, treat yourself to an exclusive and exciting glimpse behind the hedges, fences and doors of four distinctive Turlock residences.…

Over the weekend, audiences at Playhouse Merced were treated to its Young Artists Conservatory’s extraordinary production of “James and the Giant Peach Jr.” The musical is based on author Roald Dahl’s classical whimsical story of a young boy, James (played by Nate Alvarez), whose parents have been tragically killed in an accident with a…