Neighborhoods - Ramona
Ramona Events
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Bang Tango
Thursday, March 18, 2010
7:00 p.m., Ramona Mainstage Nightclub
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The Dreaming
Friday, March 19, 2010
Ramona Mainstage Nightclub
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Safety Orange
Friday, March 19, 2010
9:00 p.m., Molly Malone's
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Suidakra
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Ramona Mainstage Nightclub
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Cactus Twang & Whyte
Saturday, March 20, 2010
2:00 p.m., Dos Picos County Park
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89 Vision
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:00 p.m., Molly Malone's
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Pentagram
Sunday, March 21, 2010
7:00 p.m., Ramona Mainstage Nightclub
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Rose Funeral
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Ramona Mainstage Nightclub
Ramona Blogs
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Bam-Ba-Lam
By watorchid - February 27, 2010
Like any small town, the rumor mill here can sometimes seem like the thing to make or break a ...
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Frosty and the Icebird
By quillpena - November 14, 2009
There were many toy commercials on TV that made me perpetually yearn for the products that were advertised. Some of ...
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Oobie
By quillpena - November 8, 2009
Growing up in Ramona, I spent a great deal of my time thinking about things I could never have. Television ...
Ramona Stories
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Emergency Overkill?
By Dixie Pettit, March 10, 2010
At approximately 1:15 p.m. on March 7, two cars were involved in a head-on collision near Ramona. An unidentified 19-year-old female lost control of her vehicle and veered into the opposing lane. The driver and three ...
One-Sided
By Dixie Pettit, Feb. 10, 2010
Alisa McVay and husband Tim Lehr left home in a hurry last week after SDG&E arborist Michael Daleo informed the couple that they were "in imminent danger" and needed to leave immediately. SDG&E, according to area ...
I Just Found Bigfoot
By James A. Snyder, Jan. 13, 2010
On an overcast January day in 2002, I plunged into the backcountry of East County, carrying a half-full pack and weathered walking stick. Hiking into the serene green of silence and solitude was my escape, and ...
Dos Picos Park
By Jerry Schad, Nov. 11, 2009
Serene Dos Picos County Park, outside Ramona, nestles into East County’s sweet-smelling chaparral hillsides like a dewdrop caught in the hollow of a leaf. The name refers to two prominent mountain peaks nearby, though which ones ...
Ramona Will Have Its Green Jellÿ
By Jay Allen Sanford, Oct. 21, 2009
“So far, Deicide is the only show I haven’t been able to move up here,” says Joe Troutman, who last week walked away from his four-year job booking the Jumping Turtle in San Marcos to work ...
Black Canyon Bike Ride
By Jerry Schad, Oct. 21, 2009
Several back roads, some paved and some unpaved, strike off in various directions from Ramona, each offering splendid bicycle touring that doesn’t have to include tangling with snarling traffic on major roads. Black Canyon Road is ...
Barnett Ranch & Luelf Pond
By Jerry Schad, July 8, 2009
In the past couple of years, San Diego County has opened two new flora- and fauna-rich open-space preserves just south of Ramona. Both are key links in the county’s Multiple Species Conservation Program, which aims to ...
Mountain View Community Church
By Matthew Lickona, July 1, 2009
The white church buses parked in the dirt lot outside Mountain View Community Church looked downright old-timey. The huge white church building rising up behind them was anything but. Inside was high and wide and cool ...
Black Canyon to Pamo Valley
By Jerry Schad, Feb. 11, 2009
The easy-going, mostly descending (450 feet of elevation gain/1200 feet of elevation loss), east-to-west, one-way walk or mountain-bike ride on the Santa Ysabel Truck Trail near Ramona is fine for a cool day in February, but ...
First Congregational Church of Ramona
By Matthew Lickona, Dec. 17, 2008
Ramona held its annual Christmas-tree lighting on the evening of December 13. At nine the next morning, the bell in the brown wood steeple above the First Congregational Church clanged out a summons to the congregation’s ...
Feeding the Monster
By Ken Leighton, Aug. 13, 2008
Real estate developer Orrin Day, who has owned the Ramona movie theater on Main Street for six years, stopped showing films two years ago because people weren’t coming. So, he put the 6000-square-foot theater (built in ...
Way Too Many People Live Out Here
By Geoff Bouvier, July 23, 2008
A lawsuit was filed in March of this year by five environmental groups — including the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club — stating that overarching land-management plans prepared by the U.S. Forest Service ...
There's Been an Accident. Jadean Didn't Make It.
June 4, 2008
March 6 started out pretty much like any other day. Work was busy. I got off a little late, went home, got in the shower, and when I got out, my son Marshal told me that ...
Black Canyon
By Jerry Schad, March 19, 2008
In Black Canyon, water amply illustrates its mindless yet artistic ability to sculpt stone. Every once in a great while, a gush of sediment-laden storm runoff tears through the canyon bottom, carving and polishing the bedrock ...
Man Brings Lover Roses Then Shoots Her
By Michael Hemmingson, Aug. 9, 2007
Shocked shoppers see a woman fall to her death from a parking structure at Parkway Plaza in El Cajon. Was she pushed? In Chollas View, a mother loses the second of her two sons to street ...
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