Downtown Merced

Hundreds of excited locals, as well as honored guests from afar, gathered in downtown Merced for the fifth annual Lao New Year last weekend. A section of Main Street near Martin Luther King Jr. Way and the parking lot of the popular Bangkok Thai Restaurant were cleared of normal traffic and filled with a variety of festive events,…

Wendy Spencer, a development specialist for the Merced Theatre in downtown Merced, is out and about in the local community, going to clubs and…

Merced’s top boutique and destination hotel — a renovated jewel for the downtown area — will be under new management starting in June, according to a…

Playhouse Merced and its many talented conservatory students have brought the Disney classic “Newsies Jr.” to town. Over the last few months, the kids of the Music Dance Theater class of the Playhouse Merced Conservatory, under the direction of LuanaLei Turetzky, have been hard at work crafting their production, and were able to…

Catholic Charities is a community benefit organization that is often a first responder in helping struggling residents with food, basic…

After delays in March due to extreme weather, the Merced County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s Mercado Night Market will be back in downtown Merced in order to…

Cyclists from across the state gathered in the heart of Downtown Merced last weekend to put their athleticism to the test as part of the annual Original Merced Criterium cycling race. Despite the cold February weather, the event filled out well over a half dozen race categories with some contests drawing as many as 60 racers onto…

The good people at Trevino’s Restaurant in downtown Merced continue to host outstanding local Comedy Shows that include top comedians from the Bay…

ASIP is back! One of Downtown Merced’s popular coffee shop hangouts reopened on Dec. 11 in a 5,000 square foot brick building on Main Street between O…

Merced residents lined Main Street last Saturday as they welcomed in the holiday spirit with the city’s annual Downtown Christmas Parade. Despite the gloomy weather and rain, which let up just in time for the start of the parade, hundreds of residents showed up and lined the sidewalks. The theme for the parade was “Rockin’ Around…