Educator talks about communication
      This is in response to Gretchen Larson's Dec. 14 letter, whereby she expressed "dismay" at what she thought was Pleasant Valley School District's teachers' intentional ceasing of communication with parents. Unfortunately, there has been a misunderstanding.
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Teachers need support
      I realize that it is difficult to get support for public schools in an area where so many people send their children to private schools, but please, let us not scrimp on the place where it counts most- our teachers.
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Slow-growth advocate
      How disappointing to read that our Camarillo City Council is looking forward to the addition of a conference center, a hotel, a large bookstore, restaurants and a "big box" store to our once small town. Don't I remember voting for some of these same council members in past decades who, at tha...
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