Next week, South Coast Water District workers will remove a small 1928 house and detached garage on property at Fourth Avenue and Coast Highway in preparation for a five-year, $50 million sewer replacement project. No one has lived in the dilapidated house since 1974, according to a report by the water district, which acquired the [...]
In the interest of full disclosure, I do not drink coffee. Never got the taste for it, although I love the scent. What I do like is to sit at a comfy café chatting with friends, reading or writing. I enjoy the energy of human connection, the occasional eavesdrop on conversation, and the warmth of [...]
The holidays are associated with that Norman Rockwellian image of our country, where families are warm, loving and together; and where everyone lives in one of those villages with the clustered cottages, quaint stores, and lights in the windows; a community with that small-town feel. A place where you can walk to “town,” where you [...]
Despite that South Laguna residents live within the South Coast Water District, residents have not played a role in electing its governing board since 1999 when Laguna Beach contracted with the district for services, a spokeswoman explained. Nevertheless, a South Laguna citizen’s group submitted written questions to the candidates, all of whom responded, with the [...]
Editor, I am a long-term Laguna resident and love this community for its physical beauty and its character of engagement. Currently I am chair of the board of trustees of the Laguna College of Art and Design. As the former executive dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, I have a longstanding commitment [...]
Editor, (This letter was also addressed to the City Council.) As much as $10 million will be available in state grants for local urban runoff and water reliability projects and Laguna can benefit if we have a talented grant writer assigned to secure some of these funds. Laguna cannot be green wasting expensive, imported potable [...]
Editor, (This was also addressed to the City Council) It is with great joy that I write this letter. A year ago, my husband and I married, and moved into a little cottage on Virginia Way. My heart jumped when I saw that only feet away, right across the street, a beautiful little community garden [...]
Sometimes things are meant to be and they fall into place just right. Sometimes they are meant to be and they need a serious nudging. A lot of what we are involved in seems to be in the latter category, but after the nudging is over and everything falls into place it still seems like [...]
It could seem puzzling that at the low price end of the culinary spectrum we can go to a buffet and have unlimited plates of whatever items we choose, but at the higher price point we may be served only a small exquisitely arranged exhibit of tiny bits. Is it a match between quantity and [...]
It’s complicated, but South Laguna has lost its power to vote on the running of the water district that the community established in the 1930s. Way back in 1910 when the Egan family homesteaded 40 acres where West Street and Paso del Sur is now, they managed to get water from a spring back up [...]
Laguna Beach is accepting applications for three people on the South Laguna Water & Sewer Advisory Committee as well as four people interested in serving on the Emergency/Disaster Preparedness Committee. The water and sewer committee is comprised of two board members from South Coast Water District, two councilmembers, the city manager, the district’s general manager [...]
Outdoor Art Classes in South Laguna Laguna Outreach for Community Arts is offering nature-themed art classes at two outdoor locations in south Laguna this week. Watercolors on the Beach will be held at Treasure Island Park on Sunday, May 13, 10-11:30 a.m. A docent from Laguna Ocean Foundation will introduce live anemones, sea stars and [...]
The water district in South Laguna needs five feet of land below ground to repair a sewage tunnel buried in the ocean bluffs, but some ocean-side property owners aren’t showing signs of cooperating. Instead, last week South Coast Water District exercised eminent domain, where government can seize private property, on the first seven of 30 [...]
The Gallery of Wearable Art, a defunct 10-year Laguna Beach shop, returns to its former roots to participate in the OC Philharmonic House of Design boutique, opening this week through May 21 in a hilltop South Laguna home. To tour the design house and meet designers, catch a free shuttle from 34111 Selva Rd., in [...]
The Gallery of Wearable Art, a defunct 10-year Laguna Beach shop, returns to its former roots to participate in the OC Philharmonic House of Design boutique, opening this week through May 21 in a hilltop South Laguna home. To tour the design house and meet designers, catch a free shuttle from 34111 Selva Rd., in [...]
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 [...]
