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It's hard to imagine: Edward Umada Jr. of Merced never missed a day of school, from elementary school through high school. That's 2,340 days! When his surprise award was announced at Merced High School's graduation Wednesday night, Umada received a thunderous ovation from the crowd. It's not surprising that his younger sister, Serena, who graduated from Hoover Middle School this week, also has perfect attendance for 1,620 days of school.

Livingston's City Council will meet tonight in an emergency session to discuss one of the city's three department heads with the possibility of firing the manager.

Because it falls into a personnel issue, the city won't divulge who will be talked about. Of course, if a city job becomes vacant, it'll be clear.

The closed-door discussions will relate to either disciplining, dismissing or releasing an employee, according to the agenda.