Editor, Emerald Bay’s leadership has railroaded their community, Caltrans and now Laguna Beach’s City Council into accepting a traffic light and a grandiose entrance to Emerald Bay. They have already spent over $1 million to buy this traffic light that they will pay for because Caltrans does not believe it is necessary. Here we have [...]
Despite the Emerald Bay Community Association’s financial support for a $2.7 million Coast Highway traffic signal near the gated main entry, Laguna Beach’s City Council on Tuesday delayed its installation and instead called for an independent traffic study. The homeowners’ association, which sought required city approval for the project to proceed, performed two studies of [...]
Organizers of this year’s Aquathon, an Emerald Bay to Ritz Carlton coastline race on Sunday, Sept. 11, are forecasting calm weather. The next swell isn’t expected to arrive until Monday, Sept. 12, said “aqua-guy” organizer Gary Cogorno. “We expect a calm ocean, two foot, with the customary late afternoon wind push to help us around [...]
Despite the lack of support from Laguna Beach’s City Council, an Emerald Bay homeowners’ group will continue to pursue installing a traffic signal at the main entrance to the neighboring but unincorporated north Laguna gated community. And, it will do so despite a lack of support from some Emerald Bay residents. Proponents of the signal [...]
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two illegal aliens last Thursday in Laguna Beach, among possibly nine passengers aboard a small, panga-style boat that disgorged its human cargo along Emerald Bay’s crescent oceanfront, some of the county’s priciest real estate. Nine life jackets and 13 gas cans containing 80 gallons of fuel were found on the [...]
The City Council is currently accepting applications for seven terms on an Emergency Disaster Preparedness Committee, established earlier this month. As this is a newly appointed committee, to stagger its terms four appointments will be for two years, and three for one year. Residents of Laguna Beach and Emerald Bay are welcomed. The committee will [...]
Editor, I read with interest in the local papers that the Laguna Beach City Council adopted a new fire ordinance, despite the fact that none of the devices now planned for extinction have ever been known to cause a fire in Laguna Beach. Talk about a “nanny state!” Are we next going to outlaw [...]
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 [...]
