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Laguna Beach Eye Surgeon Receives Eagle Scout Award Local eye surgeon John Hovanesian of Harvard Eye Associates has received the nationally recognized Distinguished Eagle...

Local nonprofit Tony’s Treehouseis conducting a food drive to benefit the Laguna Food Pantry in support of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness month. The group...

Let Down The midterms are over. I feel let down. The donkeys won the House. The elephants won the Senate. The game ended in a...

Donald Ingwerson, a nationally noted education reformer who headed several big-city school districts including the 1.5-million-student Los Angeles County schools, died Nov. 4 at...

TheSawdust Festival Winter Fantasyfeatures 175 artists and makers, three stages of live music and entertainment, thousands of lights and decorations, glassblowing and art demos,...

Neighborhood Church in Laguna Beach invites the public to create a hands-on, mosaic wall mural. Activity dates are Nov. 16-18 and 24, 11 a.m....

In view of the devastating loss of homes most recently, perhaps we should take a look at building homes other than the “stick” houses—that...

I want to thank the Laguna Beach Fire Department, and especially Ray Lardie—he has removed an incredible amount of dry vegetation not only in...

The Woolsey Fire has displaced a reported 250,000 Southern Californians in the last few days. I wonder where these people will be on Thanksgiving? Clearly,...

In the aftermath of 2018’s general election, two transcendent local political realities remain. Toni Iseman, targeted for political elimination, was re-elected by a larger majority...

The recent devastating fires in LA/Ventura and Northern California should be a less-than-gentle reminder that residents of disaster-prone areas (like Laguna Beach and many...

Read the Personals HEY, GOOD-LOOKING—Branahougan’s Hilltop is having an all-day potluck meal to celebrate Thanksgiving. So bring your lumpy mashed taters, thin runny gravy and onion...

How Measure P Went Down in Flames Now that the elections are over, we can breathe a collective sigh of relief, trash those offensive signs,...

30 Years Was More Than Enough Judging from letters to the editor and the fiery exchanges between supporters of Liberate Laguna and Laguna Village, certain...