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The Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts (LBaa) is now accepting applications for the $5,000 Seven-Degrees of inspiration grant, open to individual, Laguna Beach-based artists. The deadline for application is Jan. 21. The grant is funded by Mark Orgill’s Seven-Degrees event venue...

Just as national trends show an uptick in holiday spending, that trend was also reflected at an annual holiday boutique put on by fifth-graders at Top of the World elementary school last week. In fact, Scrooge himself would have had trouble suppressing a smile at the makeshift...

“Being able to write or direct any movie is a thrill, but when you get to do both on the same project, it’s the brass ring,” said Laguna native Rob Hedden about his most recent film project. His romantic comedy “You May Not Kiss The Bride” is scheduled for release next year and...

The Rotary Club’s members handed out 26 holiday care packages to low-income families that take part in the Boys & Girls Club’s TLC preschool program last Wednesday. The longtime supporter of both the club and its preschool program partnered with Rotary’s district...

Aboard the Pineapple Express By Dennis McTighe Winter officially began this past Tuesday at 3:38 p.m. The Earth tilts away from the Sun at it’s most severe angle here in the Northern Hemisphere at 23.5 degrees, with the least amount of sun time at 9 hours and 54 minutes and a...

Students Warm Up to Caring El Morro Elementary School’s second annual One Warm Coat Drive collected over 700 coats for the Laguna Relief and Resource Center.   The month-long coat drive was part of the El Morro’s Character Counts program that focuses on teaching students...

Kitty Smith      Oct. 29, 1955 to Dec. 1, 2010 After more than a decade of combating immune suppressive health problems, Kathryn Harrod Smith (Kitty) succumbed to cancer on Dec. 1, 2010. Smith was a generous, loving, giving mother, sister, friend and wife. An accomplished...

By Ruth Yunker Christmas Eve has come to Laguna Beach yet once again.  I’m remembering a Christmas Eve in 1983. I’d just moved with my children back here from Baltimore. It was my daughter’s first California Christmas. She was three and a half and she was...