Bureau Staffer Receives Leadership Award Ashley Johnson, marketing director of the Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Bureau, has been selected as “one of the 30 emerging leaders under 30 years of age” by the California Travel Association. Johnson was nominated based on her past accomplishments and future professional potential within the industry. She and [...]
When Gen. George Lee and Dorene Butler decided to move from their beloved Omaha, Neb., and retire to sunny Southern California, they searched from San Diego to Santa Barbara until a local Laguna Beach news article caught their eye and consequently ended their pursuit. The burning issue of the week in 1998 was whether or [...]
Long-time Laguna Beach resident, Lesley Domiano has been battling Myelodysplastic Syndrome for four years and now needs a bone marrow transplant to live. To help her find a compatible match, Mozambique is hosting an event on March 7 from 5 to 9 p.m. where the public is encouraged to help save a life simply by [...]
For the second year, Crankbrothers in Laguna Beach has melded innovative bike design with philanthropy, forging their dreambikes program. Crankbrothers builds dreambikes as a way to display their range of products by exhibiting them at trade shows throughout the world, including Eurobike Expo in Germany and Interbike International Expo in Las Vegas. “We take [...]
K’ya Bistro Bar, located in the La Casa del Camino hotel, will host New Year’s Eve festivities from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m. Guests will enjoy live entertainment featuring Andrew Corradinia in the lobby and receive complimentary appetizers and dessert. At midnight, enjoy complimentary champagne, hats, horns and confetti to ring in 2012. For more [...]
As New Year’s Eve weekend approaches and the merriment that follows the holiday ensues, a warning about its consequences rings a sobering note as well. Among last year’s revelers countywide, 132 started the year with a DUI arrest, according to the state Office of Traffic Safety, and the statistics behind underage consumption at Mission [...]
UMC Sings Praise of Christmas United Methodist Church, 21632 Wesley Drive, invites the community to an assembly of Christmas Eve services: at 5 p.m., a 45-minute family worship service especially offered for children and their families; and 7 p.m., a musical worship service featuring chancel choir, hand bells, organ and piano music will be held. [...]
Punked-out, self-taught chef Tyeson Jack Collester had just signed a television contract for a cooking show, “The Hungry Punker,” on the day he died as a result of an accidental drug overdose of morphine on Jan. 19, 2006 in Laguna Beach. Through her strife over losing a loved child, Collester’s mother Judy Bostwick Kelly [...]
The high school’s performing arts department presents a variety of dance, choral, and instrumental music concerts in the next two weeks at the Artists’ Theatre, 625 Park Ave. Dancers kick off the shows with “Perceptions” featuring professional and student choreographers on stage Dec. 8-10 at 7:30 p.m. On Dec. 12 at 7 p.m., [...]
Members of Laguna Beach’s Hare Krishna Temple marked the beginning and end of a cycle of the Hindu calendar with twinkling lights marking the ancient festival Diwali last week. Diwali, falling on the night of a new moon between mid-October and mid-November, signals one of the year’s most important holidays throughout much of Asia. Durba [...]
On October 10, 1911, the women of California went to sleep thinking that they had lost the vote just as they had in the 1896 election. But upon waking the next morning they discovered that their campaigning had paid off as California legislators passed women’s suffrage. To honor the plotting done at kitchen tables 100 [...]
Rewinding to an era before automatic windows and GPS, the eighth annual classic Rotary Club car show will roll into the Festival of Arts’ grounds on Sunday, Oct. 16, bringing a glimpse of history only perceivable through this collection of local vintage cars and their enthusiastic owners. A roundup of 250 classic automobiles, ranging from [...]
“We are providing him with a bike, lights for the nighttime ride and loaning him a Garmen GPS unit so every time he comes into the feeding station, we will download the GPS unit into a computer, upload the session and put it back on his bike,” said Fetzer, whose online updates at www.lagunacycleryshop.blogspot.com will include Vitolo’s pace, elevation climbed, [...]
Ten years ago Michael and Deborah Jagels were married on Main Beach and held their wedding reception at Las Brisas restaurant, overlooking Pacific Ocean waves crashing below. Every year since they have participating in the California Coastal Cleanup Day, fulfilling a civic duty if not an unspoken wedding vow to clean the beaches that have [...]
Crowding the beaches with camera equipment and A-list actors, film maker Oliver Stone brought the set of his new film “Savages” to Laguna Beach this week. The crime drama is based on the bestselling book by Don Winslow that focuses on the relationship between best friends and Laguna Beach pot growers Ben (Aaron Johnson) and [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
