Mid-Valley Publications

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Established in 1964 by John Derby, Mid-Valley Publications (MVP) is an employee-owned group of five weekly community newspapers in Merced and Stanislaus counties. With the Merced County Times, Atwater-Winton Times, Hilmar Times, Hughson Chronicle & Denair Dispatch, and Waterford News , we are one of the longest-standing publishers of local newspapers within these two counties.


Mid-Valley Publications offers a variety of important services including providing relevant and positive news, community announcements, local and national display advertisement creation and publication, classified advertisements, legal notice publications, obituaries, and other important event announcements.


We’d love to hear from you! Please contact us at 209 358 5311 or contact our staff for more information or to obtain a subscription for our newspapers.


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