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Emergency Overkill?

Emergency Overkill?

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ramona
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 ... More Post a comment


One-Sided

One-Sided

Neighborhood News from Stringers | Ramona
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 ... More Post a comment


I Just Found Bigfoot

I Just Found Bigfoot

Cover Story | Ramona
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 ... More Comments (22)


Dos Picos Park

Dos Picos Park

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
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 ... More Post a comment


Ramona Will Have Its Green Jellÿ

Ramona Will Have Its Green Jellÿ

Blurt Music News | Ramona
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 ... More Comments (26)


Black Canyon Bike Ride

Black Canyon Bike Ride

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
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 ... More Post a comment


Barnett Ranch & Luelf Pond

Barnett Ranch & Luelf Pond

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
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 ... More Post a comment


Mountain View Community Church

Mountain View Community Church

Ramona | Sheep and Goats
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 ... More Post a comment


Black Canyon to Pamo Valley

Black Canyon to Pamo Valley

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
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 ... More Post a comment


First Congregational Church of Ramona

First Congregational Church of Ramona

Ramona | Sheep and Goats
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 ... More Post a comment


Feeding the Monster

Feeding the Monster

Blurt Music News | Ramona
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 ... More Comment (1)


Way Too Many People Live Out Here

Way Too Many People Live Out Here

Cover Story | Ramona
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 ... More Comments (8)


There's Been an Accident. Jadean Didn't Make It.

There's Been an Accident. Jadean Didn't Make It.

Cover Story | Ramona
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 ... More Comments (75)


Black Canyon

Black Canyon

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
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 ... More Post a comment


Man Brings Lover Roses Then Shoots Her

Man Brings Lover Roses Then Shoots Her

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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 ... More Comment (1)

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