Editor, Last Saturday morning. My sons Little League game was 10 a.m. Riddle Field. I was dead tired from a long week, so my plan was to arrive at the field right about 10 a.m. But at 8:30 a.m. my wife rousted us. We were needed at Riddle Field to help prep the field due [...]
The “Cathexis” sculpture by the late Laguna Beach artist Steve Harmon is almost entirely refurbished and now his mother, who headed and engineered the rejuvenation process, is asking for the public’s help in funding the work by way of donation. Deemed by city officials to be unsafe due to years of deterioration, the sculpture was [...]
Zane Cornwell of Boy Scout Troop 35 in Laguna Beach earned scouting’s highest rank of Eagle Scout on June 10. He is the son of Kelly and Shelley Arends Cornwell. While in scouting, Zane participated in many camping adventures, capping them off with a week-long backpacking trip at the National Boy Scout Reservation in Philmont, [...]
By Coby Naess, Special to the Independent After winning the AAA regular season championships with a 12-3-1 record, Laguna Beach’s Crescent Bay Advisors came back through the losers bracket of the end of season tournament to win four games in a row and beat a tough UPS team 8-0 in the final game on [...]
Sculptor Steven Harmon’s abstract “Cathexis” of intertwining metallic scrolls once enjoyed great popularity, recalled the late artist’s mother, Irvine’s Alice Harmon. Children in Riddle Field liked to climb it. Some likened it to a Christmas ornament, becoming a favorite backdrop for holiday photographs. Over time, the elements took their toll. The gift by the emerging [...]
Arts Commission nixes benches, further study for Riddle Field sculpture A new mural based on the word “Wonder” was unanimously approved by the Arts Commission on Monday to replace one eradicated last February by Marlowe Huber, co-proprietor of the Laguna Canyon Winery. Laguna College of Art instructor Mia Tavonatti and her class of 10 [...]
Amy and Jack Norworth, who started Laguna’s Little League, hand out Cracker Jacks to players. Once upon a time in 1964, a little boy of 7 yearned to play Little League in his hometown, Laguna Beach. He was a too young and far too short to make the team, but his big brother got him [...]
After much discussion and input by 15 speakers, Laguna Beach’s Arts Commission on Monday could not determine the fate of “Cathexis,” a weather-eroded sculpture donated by the late Steven Harmon that had been removed from Riddle Field as a potential safety hazard. A year ago, the commission voted to de-accession the piece from the city’s [...]
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 [...]
