On behalf of the committee for the recent photo exhibition at the Ted Falasco Art Center, I would like to thank our community in supporting this exhibit. We had more than 30 exhibitors and 100 prints with a wide variety of subject matter. | Full Story

The annual Los Baños Rotary Crab Feed is coming up soon. Two weeks from today, people who want to have a good time, visit with other happy people, and eat a lot of tasty food can enjoy an evening of conviviality. | Full Story

My cell phone is my calendar and a calculator; so if you see me using it, it is to enter and check dates and check figures. I also have no Internet on my council computer, so when you see me using it in meetings, it is for taking notes. I have extensive notes of public forums by date, along with the agenda and agenda notes. | Full Story

First I would like to comment on the mayor's State of the City Address. I thought all-in-all it was pretty accurate and I liked the family connection! We are going through tough times, but I was a little confused when he said that he takes "responsibility" for everything. My question is, what exactly is he taking responsibility for? Did he ever admit to any wrongdoing when called on it? | Full Story

My name is Keith Snow, I think that the city needs to stop using out-of-towners for our businesses and employers, we hire a lot of outsiders. We should be hiring people that live here in our city to work for our city, we should be using local businesses for all the projects we do and the work for our city. We need to stop using companies from other places. We need to start creating revenue and cut spending. We need to start saving so we can do things for our people, they keep saying we are broke but they keep spending and spending. Like the mayor said on March 3, let's spend this and that. The mayor is out of control and out of touch, spending money on the wrong things, bad choices are being made, period. | Full Story

There is something magical about the number 99. | Full Story

Despite his Irish name, "John McCarthy" was not from the Emerald Isle. He was Chinese, he lived in Los Baños in the early part of the 20th century, and he is an interesting story indeed. | Full Story

Schools in Merced County and the more than 55,000 students who attend them will be hurt again during the next school year by budget proposals designed to further delay long-term solutions to the state budget crisis. | Full Story