Merchant Pressured for Cash in Phone Scam
After one local business owner reported an aggressive fund-soliciting push by telemarketers that represented themselves as Laguna Beach police affiliates, the real authorities last...
Grads Focus on the Horizon
By Justin Swanson, Special to the Independent
Laguna Beach High School’s graduating class of 2012 reveled in their commencement, where some 239 students met the...
Long Hot Summer of Debate Over San Onofre
As a result of findings from a radiation leak inspection at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, regulatory officials now plan a series of...
Poll Tests Opinions on Council Election
A recent opinion poll of Laguna Beach residents appears to be gauging support for two local residents who are not declared candidates for the...
Gift Adds to Pageant History
Four images by Modernist photographer Paul Outerbridge related to the Festival of Arts’ early years add another sliver of history to the Festival’s permanent...
Local Bicyclists Get Boost in City Budget
The City Council approved the 2012-13 $47 million city budget with a balance of $71,000 Tuesday, in compliance with a July 1 requirement of...
A Recipe for Changing Lives
Laguna Beach resident Lucy Mercer began her professional culinary journey years ago in Warsaw, Ind., when a friend opened a restaurant and asked her...
Academy Trains To Guard Lives
Photo by Mitch Ridder
Lifeguard Lt. Kai Bond and other staff of Laguna Beach’s lifeguard academy train cadets through simulated rescues in the "Giggle Crack"...
Tops in Academics, Students Impress on Other Levels Too
By Justin Swanson, Special to the Independent
Of the graduating seniors in the 2012 Laguna Beach High School class, the students who earned the two...
Scouts Newly Fledged
Jeff White, then a fifth-grade transplant from Boston, met Tim Peterson at a meeting to recruit new scouts. Seven years later and after a...
Scouts Close Out Year with Flag Retirement Ceremony
Pack 35 closed out another successful scouting year with a family bonfire celebration and annual flag retirement ceremony at Aliso Beach on Wednesday, June...
Pet Rescuer in Need of Rescue Herself
Supporters of Gina Kantzabedian, founder of Animal Crackers Pet Rescue in Laguna Beach, have organized a from 6 to 9 p.m. fundraiser Wednesday, June...
Emergency Communications Tested
Laguna Beach’s amateur ham radio operators, Hams, will be holding a demonstration this weekend in celebration of Field Day, an event sponsored by the...
Get the Lowdown on Social Media
Author Mikal Belicove shares his experience and expertise on social media for small business with the Laguna Beach Business Club at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, June...
Green Chamber of Commerce Mixes it Up
OC Green Chamber holds a 7 p.m. mixer and membership meeting open to the public on Thursday, June 28, at BC Space Gallery, 235...