Make your garden grow, wisely
      As the days are getting warmer and we have to use more water to keep our landscape green, it's time to think about ways to save water. One way is to use a ground cover to keep water from evaporating out of the ground. If you live within the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District or t...
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Environmentalist takes the high ground
      This is a response to William O. Felsman's letter to The Acorn of April 10. He called Arielle Gilman and myself "politically innocent and scientifically uneducated" as well as accused us of "serving the augers of the apocalypse.
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Article about drug was a bit fuzzy
      I am writing about a concern I had when reading your column titled "New hallucinogenic finds its way into area neighborhoods." I am a biology professor and have a biochemistry background.
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Support school parcel tax
      The Oak Park Unified School District has done a superb job educating local students. Student achievement is the highest in Ventura County and among the best statewide. All Oak Park schools are in the top 10 percent of the state's Academic Performance Index.
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Measure C a good way to fight school budget cuts
      We have always supported public financing for school even before having our daughter and even when she was going to private school. Our public schools are the cornerstone of our community and as such benefit the entire community.
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Stop the sign before it's too late
      I wonder what the CaprHomeowners Association is thinking. You have a stop sign painteon a street at Tuscany and Rockfielin front of Red Oak ElementarSchool. The painted sign can't bseen by drivers turning right or lefalso, people pull U-turns. I don't think this can wait untnext year before...
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Can't trust this article
      I would like to clarify a statement made in Roger L. Lund's article "Living trust provides measure of security." Mr.
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Bicyclist attacked
      I was one of a group of local cyclists riding north in the bike lane on PCH between Trancas Canyon and Encinal Canyon in Malibu around 2 p.m. Sat., April 12.
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