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Beginning Anew

Members of the Ramona community:

It is time — maybe past time — to put an end to the current school year. With more stress and tension than any local school district ought to be forced to endure, please let me lead the campaign to place the 2012-13 school year behind us. Forever.

Water rate notice lacks essentials

Following is a letter that I recently wrote to the Ramona Municipal Water District manager and board president regarding the notice of proposed increases in water rates for RMWD customers.

I am criticizing RMWD in this matter because water rates are important to everyone. RMWD is as close to local

What’s next, Ramona?

“Applause!” was the response of M. Workman to Maureen Robertson’s online article announcing the Ramona Teachers Association and school board’s tentative agreement, after haggling all day and night at the PERB (Public Employment Relations Board) meeting in Los Angeles.

Ramona teacher places trust in union leadership

Who do you trust? That question occupies our attention, whether it’s a small choice between which brand of pasta sauce is truly best or a larger choice between political parties.

Lately, Ramona residents have been trying to decide whether the school district is right in saying that it must take a sizable chunk of money from its teachers or whether the teachers are correct in saying that the cut doesn’t need to be so large.

One Ramona man’s experience with IRS

In 2010 I applied for a 501(c)(3) status to breed a California endangered species called the Harris’s Hawk. I wished to see that species fly wild again in Southern California just like when I was a kid.

I planned to breed them in captivity, something I was already doing, with eventual release of the progeny back to the wild. This because there was only a single breeding pair left in the state.

Letters to the Editor

The “ vote “ is the mechanism that a free society uses to express an opinion and/or make decisions that impact upon peoples lives.

I do take my vote on the school board very, very seriously.

Letters to the Editor

I read here that my friend Dave Bittner is to be judged in a court of law as to whether he has broken “a sacred trust to preserve our natural heritage for future generations,” as quoted by the U.S prosecuting attorney Laura E. Duffy.

No one and I mean NO ONE has done more to hold that sacred trust more than Dave Bittner. I ought to know, I was

Timeout with Tambo: What if?

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We already know what the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) thinks about our student/athletes at Mountain Valley Academy. We may soon see what the Ramona Unified School District thinks about all of the student/athletes in our district.

There are no sure things when dealing with politicians or administrations. I have been asked to speculate what would happen to the athletes, teams,

Widen San Vicente Road? What are they thinking?

Thank you, Betsy Bargo, school bus driver, Sentinel letter April 18: “Let’s Rethink San Vicente Road Project.”

I, too, must speak up as I have lived in San Diego Country Estates since 1989 and I fear for my community’s safety during proposed plan. You can NOT make roads safe for unsafe drivers.

Come to Monday school board meeting in Ramona High’s Performing Arts Wing

New info: the meeting will be at the PAW (performing arts wing) at RHS at 7 pm Monday. The amount that they want to impose is 7.8%.

Please attend the board meeting at the district office on Monday, April 22, at 7 p.m. The implementation is the only item on the agenda. The teachers have offered to take cuts. Please come speak up for the kids of Ramona.

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