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Los Banos’ Garlic Festival is on this weekend
LOS BANOS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The California Garlic Festival started on Friday in Los Banos. It’s the first year the event is being held in Merced County. The event is a celebration of everything garlic and features a variety of garlic dishes, from garlic wings to garlic ice cream. The Garlic Festival also features live […]
Health officials warning community about Valley Fever
It was on New Year's Day when Rob Purdie started feeling the symptoms of Valley Fever, which started out as a really bad headache."I went to a local urgent care and they said you have a sinus infection, take these antibiotics," he said. "Took the antibiotics, finished the antibiotics, didn't feel any better."Purdie says he then went to several different urgent care facilities and within a month, he began to develop vision problems.He then went to a hospital in Bakersfield, where a doctor did some tests."That's how they determined that I had Valley Fever that had become meningitis, which is...
Merced among nation’s most unaffordable small metro housing areas, says USA Today report
There’s a saying that two seemingly opposite things can be true at the same time. Case in point, the idea Merced is more affordable than other California cities, yet considerably less affordable than many U.S. cities of its size. That’s one of the takeaways from USA Today Homefront’s 2024...
California Garlic Festival leaves Stockton after 2-year stint
STOCKTON — After announcing the California Garlic Festival would move from Stockton to Los Banos earlier this year, the weekend has arrived.Organizers say they had to make the move because people in San Joaquin County just aren't into garlic like other commodities.The San Joaquin County Fairgrounds are empty this Labor Day weekend."That's a bummer because Los Banos isn't closer to me either," Cara Petties said.Petties, who lives near Stockton, loves her garlic."We love garlic. Garlic is used in everything. I love it. I use it in everything," she said.Seeing the Garlic Festival move down south after just two years in...
Merced was stop for early Yosemite photographer Carleton Watkins
What do Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams have in common?. They are both well-known Yosemite photographers, and each photographed Merced at least once. While Adams’ portrait of a drifter in front of the Palace Rooms on 16th Street provides a glimpse of optimism amid the Great Depression, Watkins’ image of El Capitan Hotel and Passenger Depot by the Central Pacific Railroad offers a look at an up-and-coming new town.
CA Budget & Policy Center hosts launch event for 2024 CA Women’s Well-Being Index Sept. 4th
SACRAMENTO, CA — On Wednesday, September 4, the California Budget & Policy Center (Budget Center) and the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls will host a launch event for the latest iteration of the California Women’s Well-Being Index (WWBI) at the Secretary of State Auditorium in Sacramento.
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