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Pfizer-BioNTech Coronavirus vaccine sufficient for 975 doses was scheduled to arrive in Merced County on December 17 or 18, and its roll-out will soon be well underway. Salvador Sandoval, M.D., MPH, Merced County Health Officer, told the Times, “Over 21,000 deaths in the State from March 2020 to now meant drastic measures needed to be…

'It’s almost impossible to not know someone who has been COVID positive at this point because it’s so widespread.' - Dr. Kristynn Sullivan, Merced County’s…

Since its slide back to purple tier on Nov. 16, Merced County has continued to show a spike in COVID-19 cases, and the Merced County Public Health…

“We have done everything he has asked and nothing is working. … The silent pandemic  is worse than the pandemic we are dealing with. … We have to take the hand away from the dictatorship of what he is trying to impose on us. He doesn’t know Merced County. I think he has been here one time. I think he flew through and shook a lot of hands.”…

“I was in complete shock. ... I thought, Oh Lord, how big could this thing really be?’ Kory Billings was a thousand miles away from home, fishing on a…

(MUHSD press release) After consultation with Merced County Department of Public Health (MDPH), Merced Union High School District (MUHSD)…

We’re seeing an explosion in the amount of cases. Dr. Rebecca Nanyonjo-Kemp, Merced County Public Health Director With the “explosion” of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Merced County in recent days, a great number of local business owners and church-goers must feel like they are riding on a spinning yo-yo with the State of California…

Picture this:  It’s time for school, and little Luis and Sofia are off to catch the school bus, but their mother calls out for them…

Editor's Note: The following letter to the community is from Julio Valadez, the chairman of the Livingston 4th of July Committee ...  Our community…

Jean Kirby, the owner of the popular local restaurant Granny’s Pantry at 1221 Broadway Avenue in Atwater, could hardly believe the enormous surge of generous donations from local people as well as from people across the nation that she experienced after she made a random comment which was overheard by a customer. Her comment, that it was a…