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• Bees Work for a Good Harvest

  -Hives are in place in many orchards throughout Merced County Bee hives can be seen near dozens of orchards in Merced and other counties throughout the Central Valley.…

• MARINES: Central California Veterans

  MARINES: Central California Veterans R.R.Villegas, Jr., CEO/Founder Post Office Box 3944 Merced, California 95344 For more information call: (209) 726-5308 See our website at: - - - - Facebook Page: Mccv SemperFi MARINES…

• Faded Images, Clearer Memories

  Digital Film Transfer Offers Family Insight My Grandma Vera Newvine shot dozens of reels of Super 8 home movies.  This is a frame from one of those reels.…

• Revitalizing a Park while Reinforcing Legacies

  Del Hale and Emory O’Banion.   O’Banion Park in Dos Palos was named after former Merced County Supervisor Emory O’Banion in 1966.…

• COVID Concerts-

  Coping with streaming concerts in the lockdown era The Merced Symphony Association posted a holiday concert to YouTube in late December.…

• Rotary Club of Atwater

  Rotary Club of Atwater P. O.…

• Dave’s Record Collection-

  Father-in-law’s love for jazz lives on Some of the music in my father-in-law’s collection.  Photo: Newvine Family Collection Three years ago, my father-in-law, Dave passed shortly before turning ninety-one.…

• A Look Back on 2020-

  Why review a year many want to forget The year 2020 will be forever marked as the year of COVID-19.…

• A Little Voice Urging a Final Round-

  Playing a Sentimental Golf Favorite One Last Time The curved pine on hole nine at Modesto Muni Golf Course.…

• A Brief Visit to California -

  What the State May Have Looked Like for a Returning Vietnam Vet My latest book: Can-Do Californians, will be available at Lulu.com in December As the end of preparations for my upcoming book Can-Do Californians is now…

• Veterans- Now Never Forgotten

  How Merced and other Areas are Honoring those who Served Mark Bolte, the son of Air Force Colonel Wayne Bolte holds the sign that honors his dad along M Street (Veterans Boulevard) in Merced.…

• Election Day and the Right to Vote-

  Recalling memorable election contests over the years California is all in on mail-in ballots in 2020.…

• Rotary Club of Mariposa Yosemite

  Rotary Club of Mariposa Yosemite Elaine Seymour event chairman Street Address - - - -    3683 Apperson Mine road City - - -    Mariposa For more information call:    (209) 966-3115 The Rotary Club of Mariposa Yosemite is…

• The Palm and the Pine from the Air-

  Sacramento TV Crew Show Unique Perspective of Local Icon The view of the palm and the pine on Highway 99 south of Madera as seen through the drone video camera of KCRA-TV in Sacramento.…

• A New Californian Making an Impact-

  Thirteen mountain hikes including Yosemite’s Half Dome for charity Brennen Thompson is one quarter of his way through climbing twelve peaks in California. He’s shown here on top of Sandstone Peak in Malibu.…

• Pearl Family Dentistry

  Jasvinder Badwalz, DMD 676 Loughborough Drive, Merced CA, 95340 For more information call:(209) 383-6133 See our website at: - - - -www.drbadwalz.com Merced Dentist  Pearl Family Dentistry, Dr.…

• A Courthouse Cupola View of Merced-

  On Top of the Iconic Courthouse Museum On the left - The view looking down N Street from on top of the Courthouse Museum. Right: The exterior of the iconic Merced building.…

• Politics and Sleep Deprivation

  * Memories from 1988 * The political parties are staging their conventions in August 2020. 2020 and COVID-19 We’ll be hearing a lot about the political conventions taking place in the final two weeks of August 2020.…

• First Tee Central Valley

  First Tee Central Valley John Griston, Executive Director 812 14th Street Modesto For more information call:    (209) 544-1780 See our website at: - - - -    www.firstteecentralvalley.org The First Tee is an…

• Swinging through Summer with Youth Golf-

  First Tee Programs Help Kids Learn the Game & Build Character Area youth are learning the basics of golf through the First Tee of the Central Valley Program at St. Stanislaus Golf Course in Modesto.…

• Watching the Watermelon Harvest-

  Harvesters toss watermelons along a human chain until it reaches large cardboard storage bins on a flatbed truck. Photo: Steve Newvine Another Big Year for a Favorite Crop It’s an impressive sight.…

• A Special July-

  A month marking a milestone anniversary My friend Andy, who taught me the game of chess, was among the first to congratulate my fiancéeVaune. Photo: Newvine Personal Collection.…

• Libertarian Party of Merced County

  Libertarian Party of Merced County Mike Noguera, Chair See our website at: - - - -    https://www.facebook.com/LPMerced/ Our slogan is that we are “The Party of Principle”, because we stand firmly on our principles.…

• A Museum with a Sense of Humor-

  My return visit to the Merced County Courthouse Museum One of the displays at the Merced County Courthouse Museum “Beyond Appearance: Portraits of Merced County Women” exhibit shows two mannequins dressed in period…