Two recuperated sea lion pups equipped with expensive satellite tags to monitor their progress were returned to the sea and are faring well and foraging afar, officials at Laguna Beach’s Pacific Marine Mammal Center said this week. The tags, which cost from $1,700 to $3,000 apiece, track how far the sea mammals travel, how long [...]
Ty Segall, John Heussenstamm expected to play at the benefit Gary Shapiro doesn’t shy away from center stage; in fact, he likes to be in every act “cuz it’s my show,” he says, delighted. Shapiro is the namesake, and mostly the main attraction, of the annual, one-night-only “Shap Show” at Laguna Beach High School. [...]
After what seems like thousands of requests in seemingly as many years, the boarded-up and abandoned house at the south end of 1000 Steps Beach in south Laguna is officially heading south. On Monday, workers were preparing the concrete structure, which once bore a “Chateau Relaxo” sign, for demolition with bulldozers and dump trucks readying [...]
By Rita Robinson | LB Indy To exacerbate the deluge of emaciated sea lion pups at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, adult sea lion females with chronic and often-fatal domoic acid poisoning are also being rescued along the local coastline. Last week, 21 starving young sea lions were shuttled by emergency animal services to [...]
Fred Sheldon wasn’t a bad student, just bored, so getting by was the best he did. He didn’t fit the rote routine of school. Sheldon was fading into nowhere, his creativity untapped. Until he learned how to blast off a bottle rocket, and get credit for it. Pegged as an “average” student, Sheldon was fortunate [...]
Despite its imagery of atomic annihilation, the name Hiroshima was selected by the eclectic, five-member band of world-class world musicians for a definite purpose, said the band’s positively explosive artistic force, June Kuramoto. “Many Japanese resent us for naming the group Hiroshima but when they understand that our purpose is to continue the message of [...]
With the federal government declaring the extraordinary number of starving sea lion pups along the Southern California coastline an “unusual mortality event,” the door is opened for possible emergency funding for the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, a center spokesperson said this week. Nearly 150 young sea lions are now receiving emergency care at PMMC, the [...]
Last weekend, three sick sea lion pups came up on the shore and rocks below Laguna Beach’s Heisler Park and a dog that had broken free of its owner’s leash attacked another near the Treasure Island tide pools below the Montage resort. The injured young sea lion later died due to the inflicted wounds, according [...]
Immersed in Nature’s Rain-Dance Symphony Cloudy mists settled heavily into the dark folds of the verdant blanket wrapping around the canyons and hills. Like a Japanese woodblock print, it felt solid yet ethereal. The valley below was dancing in the flashing rays of sunlight cutting through the Pacific mist, like so many filigree-winged fairies. [...]
To encourage not only eating better food but eating in general, the new Wave Rider Café next to Thurston Middle School’s lunch lines will offer students grab-and-go selections for quick access to healthier foods. The school board unanimously approved spending $113,130 Tuesday to install the café next to the school’s kitchen and outside lunch windows [...]
After a half-year of playing a string instrument in third grade, novices are left in the lurch with no bow to turn to until high school. That will change next fall with the addition of a strings section to the elementary and middle schools’ regular music curriculum, a step towards the district’s goal of developing [...]
Coastal animal services officer Dana Friedman slipped a bony and listless 20-pound sea lion pup out of his rescue truck and into a portable dog cage and carried it into the Pacific Marine Mammal Center here early Wednesday afternoon. Forty pounds underweight, the sickly sea lion pup was taken inside and swaddled in warm blankets, [...]
Emphasizing that Hometown America Communities is in the business of “owning and operating” property rather than flipping it for greater profits, its president sees his latest deal to buy Laguna Terrace Mobilehome Park as “a perfect fit.” “We’re long-term operators,” said Stephen Braun, president of the Chicago-based company, which owns 45 communities in 11 states. [...]
After a month of protest over the Laguna Beach school board’s approval of an unprecedented start of school before Labor Day, elected officials conceded to parents’ persistent demands and retracted its decision in a 4-0 vote Tuesday. Schools will now start as they did, on the Tuesday, Sept. 3, after the long holiday weekend. In [...]
Massive 100-year floods, like the one Laguna Beach experienced two years ago that raged through Laguna Canyon neighborhoods and sent overflowing runoff and sediment through downtown shops, will happen every year in less than 40 years, according to an expert in flood-water mapping. While floods of that magnitude have a slight 1 percent probability of [...]
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 [...]
