A crowd of people enjoyed a chance to celebrate a hometown history in the making — and at the Courthouse Museum, no less.
Adam Gray — a native Mercedian who went from being in the first graduating class of Golden Valley High School to the halls of the State Capitol as a member of the Assembly — took the Oath of Office on Jan. 30 as the new congressman to represent Merced County and the rest of District 13 in the U.S. House of Representatives.