The Young Patriots Challenge (YPC), a local contest with a patriotic theme, will be held in Atwater between Sept. 13 and 17. Because our citizens’ Constitutional protections and rights were fundamental to our nation’s founding, a local group of Merced County volunteers organized to assist public school and home school teachers in meeting the…

If you’re a Merced resident, you might want to keep an eye out for a survey that should be arriving inside mailboxes in the coming days. This particular…

Recruitment ads and a four-page, color brochure describing the top position of “County Executive Officer” have started to appear recently on behalf of…

Merced Superior Court Judge Shelly Seymour is pleased to announce that a new panel of jurors has been selected to serve on the 2021-2022 Civil Grand Jury. The Civil Grand Jury investigates complaints regarding government agencies, including County and City government, special districts and school districts. They are responsible for issuing…

Anyone who eats at Merced’s Pizza Villa can tell you what makes the pies special. For some, it’s the fresh-made sauce; for others, the dough that puffs up…

Last year at this time, you could have sliced the tension inside the Merced County Board of Supervisors chamber with a hunting knife. Much of the anxiety was…

There appeared to be a sense of last-minute urgency among those in the standing-room-only crowd at Monday night’s marathon of a City Council meeting. But it wasn’t too late for the overwhelming majority of people who were not in support of a sweeping rental housing inspection program intended to protect tenants from slumlords and substandard…

It was a pretty quick about-face for Atwater Mayor Paul Creighton. About a month after he shook the local political scene by announcing he…

There are upcoming elections in Merced County, the Registrar of Voters reminded local residents on Tuesday at the Merced County Board of Supervisors…

Merced City Council members and residents agreed on at least one thing Monday night: $27,427,882 is a lot of money. Especially when it’s considered federal funding that has started flowing into town this year by way of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) as a response to the pandemic. The big question is how to spend it all. Leaders…