About Us

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

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

Mid Valley Publications was founded by John Derby, who retired in 2004 as the Publisher, but continues to provide a guiding hand in the daily operations of the company.