About Merced County Times Established in 1964, Mid-Valley Publications ( MVP ) is an employee-owned group of six weekly community newspapers in Merced and Stanislaus counties. With Merced County Times, Atwater-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...