Taps: It was a sad day for...

Taps: It was a sad day for the Navy. Sailors in Ventura County joined comrades all over the country Tuesday in remembering Adm. Jeremy Boorda, the Navy chief of operations who killed himself last week. . . . At Point Mugu, a crowd of 70 turned out to hear from Capt. Steven Beal and to sing and pray. . . . About 120 attended a memorial service at Port Hueneme, where Capt. William Rudich spoke about Boorda’s commitment to the average sailor.

School Money: Educators can’t wait to get their hands on the $50,000 the governor wants to give each school in the state (A1), and few will get more impact from the money than Santa Clara School near Santa Paula. . . . The one-room schoolhouse only cost $2,634 to build a century ago this year. The state grant would let officials add a mobile classroom . . . doubling the school’s size.

Fire Flights: The huge C-130s fly as low as a 10-story building, barely fast enough to stay aloft. . . . Only a few Air National Guard units in the country handle airborne firefighting, and they’re at the Channel Islands base for national training exercises (B1). . . . Lt. Col. Ronn Boll says the pilots love the daring duty. “It’s the most hazardous mission next to combat duty.”

VCTV: The fall TV lineup is heavy with Ventura County influences. . . . Ojai just about owns CBS, with residents Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as a divorced couple running a newspaper in “Ink,” Peter Strauss as a police psychologist on “Moloney” and Scott Bakula as part of a sleuthing team in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” . . . Plus, Moorpark producer Dave Alan Johnson saw his suburban crime drama, “High Incident,” picked up by ABC.