Schools

A recent Laguna Beach brush fire provides proof that fire season has arrived. In the event of various emergencies, including natural disasters such as fires...

Last Friday morning, students and teachers at Top of the World Elementary received an inside look at the district’s disaster planning. At least one...

Laguna Beach’s school board agreed earlier this month to seek funding under the state Education Department’s class size reduction program, as it has since...

Candidates for Laguna Beach’s school board will present their views and answer questions at a 7 p.m. forum on Thursday, Oct. 11, at Top...

La Playa Center’s free English-as-a-second-language classes began this week at the Boys and Girls Club of Laguna Beach. They are offered with childcare and a...

Laguna Beach’s Austin Dodge was among more than 900 new students to begin the year at Emerson College.

ASSE International Student Exchange Programs is seeking volunteers to serve as area representatives in Laguna Beach. ASSE provides academic year and semester exchange programs in...

By Kate Rogers, Special to the Independent PTA’s Coffee Break kicked-off the season last week by welcoming leaders and catching up parents on the latest...

American Legion Post 222 honored its junior class delegates to the Boys and Girls State Conventions, held in June. From left, Legionnaire Frank Daniel...

Enrollment climbed this year at Thurston Middle School and Top of the World Elementary by 41 and 28 students respectively, though district-wide enrollment only...

Even as they complete the paperwork to start their own Healing Hands club at Laguna Beach High School, three sophomores, Branner Grimsley, Solveig Erngren...

Betting that two hearts are better than one, Laguna Beach resident and heart disease survivor Holly Morrell, founder of Heartfeltcardiacprojects.org, and local heart transplant...

Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve will host Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lead Engineer Ben Cichy on Saturday, Sept. 22 in special presentations for families at...

A free counseling group for children whose parents are divorced, separated, or currently not living together, ages 6-14, will be held at the Boys...

The Boys & Girls Club’s after-school program includes a variety of educational activities for children in grades K-12. The club’s education and technology department provides...