A new collaboration between Laguna Beach Live! and Laguna Beach’s Boys and Girls Club is striking the right chord, and promoters are hoping to see the alliance evolve even more with the public’s support at a fundraising concert next month. It began last September as a monthly presentation by the musicians performing in the Live! [...]
By Justin Swanson | LB Indy “Thank you for sharing your life with me,” was the resounding chorus line at sixth grade luncheons held in the gymnasium at Thurston Middle School. Students, family members and friends gathered to witness the oral reports given as the culmination of a month-long project March 25-27. The project [...]
Thurston Middle School students Claire Black, Katie Hayden and Vanessa Lortal, who entered Chapman University’s annual Holocaust art and writing contest, attended a special ceremony March 8 to bring together survivors and contestants. “It is powerful to watch middle school students make real connections with Holocaust survivors. We are so proud of our students!” said [...]
To encourage not only eating better food but eating in general, the new Wave Rider Café next to Thurston Middle School’s lunch lines will offer students grab-and-go selections for quick access to healthier foods. The school board unanimously approved spending $113,130 Tuesday to install the café next to the school’s kitchen and outside lunch windows [...]
After a half-year of playing a string instrument in third grade, novices are left in the lurch with no bow to turn to until high school. That will change next fall with the addition of a strings section to the elementary and middle schools’ regular music curriculum, a step towards the district’s goal of developing [...]
Fair Features Multicultural Fare Newport Coast’s Sage Hill School will open its campus to the community for a day of food and festivity at the 12th Annual Multicultural Fair on Saturday, March 23, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 20402 Newport Coast Dr. The fair will include two dozen authentic international food booths, lively [...]
Editor, The new town “richies” who apparently now run Laguna hardly need a year-round city transit system. Many of them have never set foot on a public bus and never will. Former City Manager Ken Frank would have loved to get rid of the blue and white buses, subsidized by hundreds of thousands from Orange County [...]
A pilot elective course known as STEAM-1, for Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics, was approved by the school board for Thurston Middle School students next fall, according to a statement from the school district. The elective course is an opportunity for seventh and eighth grade students to participate in a year-long class designed to [...]
Museum Displays Imagination of Young Artists The Laguna Art Museum hosts a free reception for young artists of the Boys and Girls Club from 2 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, in its Young Artists Society Gallery. The show “In Our Imagination”, will display artwork by club members students inspired by artist Allison Schulnik, [...]
Editor, As the month of February has come and gone and we have celebrated Valentine’s Day, Black History Month, and Presidents Day, did anybody take notice that it was Teen Dating Violence Awareness month also? Findings report that about one in five female high school students experience physical and/or sexual abuse by an intimate partner. [...]
“It appears there is a progression of introversion [among the Laguna Beach School Board.] The families and students come first. They are your clients. The union is not your client. You should be transparent, but have shown to be insular.” –Rick Putnam to the Laguna Beach Unified School District board members. There has been [...]
Staff from Laguna’s Boys & Girls Club is helping foster social skills in students during lunchtime at the district’s elementary and middle schools, according to a district statement. These efforts aim to help students develop connections with their peers and adults on campus by involving them in small group activities such as board games and [...]
In 2010, the entry-age for kindergarten and first grade changed. The new law requires that kindergarten students turn 5 years of age by Sept. 1 in order to enroll. The requirements were designed to be phased-in, beginning with the current school year, said a district statement. For those “young 5s,” children turning 5 between Sept. [...]
Fighting Cancer a Cup at a Time Make a pit stop for lemonade during lunchtime on Friday, March 8, at El Morro Elementary, and help perpetuate the mission of a 4-year-old Connecticut girl who died from cancer. The stand is a product of El Morro’s Lemonade Business Club, led by English-language teacher Jenny Carlson, whose [...]
Editor, If the school board is apologizing to parents then it is only fair that they correct their mistake. Put the calendar back and leave it alone until you’ve allowed a proper public debate. When a student does something wrong in class he is required to correct it and/or fix it until he gets it [...]
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 [...]
