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The talented members of the Gateway Quilters Guild’s “Cirque du Fabrique” group gathered at the Hoffmeister Center recently for an extra special quilt show paired with a surprise history lesson. Cirque du Fabrique, a subgroup of the longstanding Gateway Quilters Guild of Merced, was organized with the goal of having all its members to push…

BOOK REVIEW By GWEN HAGAMAN Special to the Times No other building in Merced carries the same monumental feeling as its Italian Renaissance…

The second of two parts By SARAH LIM Special to the Times In my last column, I wrote about the stories behind each picture…

By GABRIELLE ANDRADE  The Merced County Courthouse Museum hosted its 41st Annual Christmas Open House on the first Sunday of December — with community Christmas trees, live music, cookies, and the famous Courthouse eggnog.  About 800 people came together inside the 150-year-old building to celebrate the Christmas spirit. The…

Imagine being sent to a town, far away from home, for a nine-month job that has you climbing up 60 feet of scaffolding to restore a historic…

By SARAH LIM Special to the Times Did you know that our Old Courthouse had eight built-in vaults? Do you have any idea of the whereabouts of the $10,000…