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  • This photo was taken just as the sun was setting in Ramona at the Highland Valley Studios Music and Arts Festival 2009. This pet-friendly festival ...

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  • This photo was taken just as the sun was setting in Ramona at the Highland Valley Studios Music and Arts Festival 2009. This pet-friendly festival ...

    yvonnemariea: This photo was taken just as the sun was setting in Ramona at the Highland Valley Studios Music and Arts Festival 2009. This pet-friendly festival ...

  • The old windmill at Mt. Woodson Castle

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  • View from the 1st tee at Mt Woodson Golf Course

    janeb: View from the 1st tee at Mt Woodson Golf Course

  • Schwaesdall Winery

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Dos Picos Park

Dos Picos Park

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
Published 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 ...

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Black Canyon Bike Ride

Black Canyon Bike Ride

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
Published 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 ...

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Ramona Will Have Its Green Jellÿ

Ramona Will Have Its Green Jellÿ

Blurt Music News | Ramona
Published 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 ...

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Barnett Ranch & Luelf Pond

Barnett Ranch & Luelf Pond

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
Published 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 ...

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Mountain View Community Church

Mountain View Community Church

Ramona | Sheep and Goats
Published 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 ...

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Black Canyon to Pamo Valley

Black Canyon to Pamo Valley

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
Published 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 ...

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First Congregational Church of Ramona

First Congregational Church of Ramona

Ramona | Sheep and Goats
Published 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 ...

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Feeding the Monster

Feeding the Monster

Blurt Music News | Ramona
Published 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 ...

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Way Too Many People Live Out Here

Way Too Many People Live Out Here

Cover Story | Ramona
Published 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 ...

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

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

Cover Story | Ramona
Published 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 ...

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Black Canyon

Black Canyon

Ramona | Roam-O-Rama
Published 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 ...

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Man Brings Lover Roses Then Shoots Her

Man Brings Lover Roses Then Shoots Her

Chollas View | Chula Vista | Cover Story | El Cajon | Encanto | Escondido | Jacumba | Jamacha-Lomita | La Jolla | Lemon Grove | Linda Vista | Mission Valley | Mountain View | Mount Hope | National City | Ocean Beach | Ramona | Spring Valley | Vista
Published 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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Backyard Bounty

Crush | Ramona | Wine
Published Aug. 9, 2007

I'm standing in William Holzhauer's hilltop backyard in Ramona, looking out over his soon-to-be-finished winery and surveying the surrounding scene. He points to a nearby lot. "See that big gray rock? The owners are going to ...

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Passion vs. Permits

Crush | Ramona
Published Aug. 2, 2007

It's one of the oldest saws in the business, but it still cuts: if you want to make a small fortune in wine, start with a large one. Up in Napa, it works because the land ...

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Spanish Horses, Spanish Wine

Crush | Ramona
Published July 26, 2007

'I found that there was money in growing grapes," says William Holzhauer, recalling his first investigations into the production end of the wine business. "But there's a lot of money in a winery — because the ...

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