Rescuers Extract Injured Bike Rider
A 32-year-old bike rider, injured when losing control on a steep trail above Laguna Canyon Road about 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, March 24, was...
Linking Strings to Future HS Orchestra
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...
Summoning Beach Girl Vibe
By Andrea Primer, Special to the Independent
Laguna Beach fosters many sorts of entrepreneurs, allowing for creative and eclectic ideas to prosper into full-blown businesses....
Grant May Extend Trolley Service
To take advantage of a potential $3.7 million windfall in county transportation funding, Laguna Beach’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to apply for a...
Reviving Plans for a Village Entrance
The village entrance project to beautify the area between Forest Avenue and the festivals and put in a parking structure has been on and...
Safety Rules on the Way for Stand Up Paddlers
Testimony about potential hazards due to the surge of companies offering stand-up paddling lessons on local beaches prompted the City Council on Tuesday to...
Wells a Splashing Success
Money raised by Laguna Beach’s Soroptimist International and its partner, Newport Beach’s Woman of the Wells, have built four wells in India.
The first of...
Community Datebook 3/22/13
Eco-Warrior Takes Up the Adopt-a-Beach Torch
The California Coastal Commission has partnered with the recently established Eco-Warrior Foundation to organize Laguna Beach’s Adopt-A-Beach Program, the...
Spring Events Both Sacred and Secular
Religious Services
The following are local services for Palm Sunday, March 24 and Easter, March 31:
United Universalist Fellowship – 10:30 a.m. Palm Sunday; 10:30 a.m....
Irvine School Honors Supporters
Irvine’s Tarbut V’Torah Day School honored top volunteers, Newport Beach’s Sam Wyman and Laguna Beach’s Lou Weiss, during its annual fundraising event.
Weiss, a long-time...
Philip Herbert
Philip C. Herbert, 73, a long time resident of Orange County passed away on March 12, 2013, in Prescott, Ariz., with his loving wife...
Meet Comes of Age, Starts a New Chapter
Laguna Beach High’s Eric Hulst Track and Geyer Field came alive last Saturday, as thousands of spectators, coaches and athletes ushered in a new...
Dine and Dash Suspect Named
The Chamber of Commerce this week circulated a police “crime bulletin” describing a woman suspected in numerous “dine and dash” incidents in Laguna Beach...
Will Laguna Stand Up to Regulate Paddlers?
Laguna Beach’s City Council on Tuesday will consider potential regulation of stand-up paddling instruction due to complaints stemming from the surge of companies offering...
Taking View Equity for a Test Drive
Just six weeks after its formation, the newly established View Equity Committee seems determined to deliver on putting teeth in a new city ordinance.
But...