Our Central Valley By STEVE NEWVINE A 50th anniversary was marked last week in Chowchilla. It was not a festive occasion but ...

By FLIP HASSETT & JIM CUNNINGHAM Applegate Zoo is reopening after being closed since the start of the year.  Zoo officials ...

By SARAH LIM Special to the Times The 7-Up sign by Marie’s Mexican Kitchen at 259 W. Main Street is a prominent landmark in ...

By JILL CUNNINGHAM  Before there was a campus, before there were graduates, before there were traditions, there were people ...

June 8, 2026 Shirley Kirby peacefully turned toward the heavens and was called home on the evening of Monday, June 8, 2026, surrounded by her loving family. Shirley was born on May 15, 1922.

A large crowd of passionate locals and distinguished guests last Saturday, July 11, for the official groundbreaking ceremony ...

After a long, vibrant and fulfilling life, Nancy Barton Holmes (born Nancy Keith Barton) passed peacefully on her 83rd birthday, surrounded by family. Her life story is as fabulous as she was. Nancy ...

One of the Central Valley’s favorite Independence Day traditions returns as fireworks light up the skies over Lake McClure on Saturday, July 4. Tickets to Lights on the Lake should be purchased in ...

Almost exactly three years from the day a massive fire gutted their wood and tin building on Atwater Boulevard, completely destroying one of the city’s most beloved local businesses, the Fragulia ...

Yader Zeledon — a Merced barber who started his own business on Main Street and then extended his talents to the local real estate market — kicked off his campaign for the District 6 seat on the ...

It is America’s big birthday, and we are celebrating it Merced County style. On June 25, the “America 250 – Merced County” exhibit will open at the Courthouse Museum at 5 p.m. This exhibit ...

There are many ways to be entertained these days and one of the best of them has to be the rodeo. There just aren’t enough rodeos in this neck of the woods. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association ...