City of Merced

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. The City of Merced on Monday night presented a certificate to Lauren Figg, chapter member and advocate for the California Insulin4All Chapter for National Diabetes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate 37.3 million adults and children in the United States are diagnosed with diabetes, a…

Merced Mayor Matthew Serratto, this week, proclaimed Saturday, Nov. 26, as Small Business Saturday in the City of Merced. He presented the certificate to…

The City of Merced and Merced County Department of Workforce Investment have partnered to create Merced Youth Jobs, a program designed to connect young people…

Housing has been a robust topic of conversation at Merced City Council meetings. During the past 18 months, Council has heard from community members about the critical need for affordable housing and the need for creating amenity-rich sustainable neighborhoods throughout the City of Merced. As State policy makers continue to change…

High Speed Rail progress in California has had its share of exorbitant costs, troubled construction, and criticism from naysayers; however, planners and…

The Branford Point project — concerning some 50 acres of mixed-use housing and commercial development in the city’s future annexation zone near UC Merced —…

“The Isaiah Project” just celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the Calvary Assembly of God, located at 1021 R St in Merced. The after-school program hosts a back-to-school drive for their kids every year, and this year was no different as the youth in the program and at the church all received brand new shoes — just in time for…

Minutes before the start of Monday night’s meeting of the Merced City Council, one regular, middle-aged member of the public glanced over the night’s agenda,…

The age-old idea that what we Americans need is better local government remains alive and well today at City Hall. One way to improve on things, local…

Once again, the Merced City Council has given a green light to another piece of potential residential paradise outside of the current city limits and into the farthest northern reaches of the city’s so-called “sphere of influence,” and even beyond. Council members on Monday night unanimously voiced their support for a pre-annexation application…