The Merced Multicultural Arts Center will host a participatory art project focusing on immigration stories, according to organizers. The event is called the People’s State of the Union and has … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced LGBT Center to close, staff says, citing funding and staffing issues
The Merced LGBT Community Center will close, according to its staff, who cited difficulty in funding the center and keeping it staffed. The announcement was made Monday on a blog … Click to Continue »
Read More »Valley Crisis Center shines light on human trafficking cases in Merced
Debra Woods was 18 when she was abducted by a sex trafficker in Fresno and taken to Los Angeles. Woods said the man who took her told her she would … Click to Continue »
Read More »Google rebrands self-driving car, a project at Castle Commerce Center
The self-driving-car project that Google started seven years ago has grown into a company called Waymo, signaling its confidence that it will be able to bring robot-controlled vehicles, which have … Click to Continue »
Read More »Los Banos man dies in Friday crash near Romero Visitors Center
A 29-year-old Los Banos man died when he was “partially ejected” from a vehicle after a collision with a passing pickup truck, police said. The man was a passenger in … Click to Continue »
Read More »Castle Family Health Center staff make “winter wonderland’ a reality
Christopher Jimenez’s eyes lit up as he watched the lights on the Christmas trees blink in the north wing hallway at Castle Family Health Center in Atwater. When the 4-year-old … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced Mysteries & Minutiae: Central Valley Regional Center is building a big, shiny space
About a month ago this column was essentially a giant list of retail and development projects coming to Merced. That prompted a few additional questions from readers that I’ll answer … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced Multicultural Art Center celebrates Dia de los Muertos
Merced Multicultural Arts Center celebrates Dia de los Muertos in Merced, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC gains approval for health center, new engineering doctoral degree
UC Merced announced two accreditations this week, one for its mechanical engineering graduate school and the other for its campus health center. UC Merced’s H. Rajender Reddy Health Center and … Click to Continue »
Read More »Merced City School District breaks ground on STEAM center
Merced City School District officials broke ground Wednesday at Ada Givens Elementary for a new STEAM Center, a cutting-edge facility that will provide space for studies in science, technology, engineering, … Click to Continue »
Read More »Los Banos school board terminates contract at the center of criminal probe
The Los Banos Unified School Board voted 5-0 Wednesday to terminate a hotly disputed construction contract that was revealed this week to be at the center of a criminal probe … Click to Continue »
Read More »Community center in south Merced has doors open to the community for a year
More than 100 people packed Stephen Leonard Park on Sunday for games and food as part of a celebration of the one-year anniversary of the opening of the park’s community … Click to Continue »
Read More »Islamic Center of Merced hosts feast, prayer for Eid al-Fitr
First Eid marks the end of Ramadan Muslims celebrate with feast, special prayer Merced Muslims saddened by terrorism during Ramadan, say it doesn’t represent Islam … Click to Continue »
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