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Start of the season
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Alexis Valpey, 4, gets her face painted at a booth on Main Street. - photo by MAEGAN MARTENS / The Journal
Updated: Nov 27, 2010, 1:23 AM
Published: Nov 27, 2010, 1:25 AM

The holiday season officially began Friday with the Festival of Lights. Hundreds gathered in downtown Turlock to watch the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree in Central Park, while enjoying free activities such as pictures with Santa Claus and horse-drawn carriage rides.

Local Rite Aid stores prepare to close
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The shelves are slowly emptying at the Rite Aid on Monte Vista Avenue as the national drugstore chain prepares to close all its locations (KRISTINA HACKER/The Journal).
Kristina Hacker
Turlock Journal
Published: May 24, 2025, 6:15 AM
The shelves at Turlock’s Rite Aid drugstore on Monte Vista Avenue are slowly being emptied and signs posted on the store’s popular Thrifty counter state “No More Ice-Cream” with a cartoon cone sporting a frowny face. An employee of the local drugstore on Thursday confirmed to curious customers that the store will be closing its doors, but he didn’t know exactly when.
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