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What is Really Going on Here? By Rita Conn This is a phrase I commonly used during my 30 years as a marriage and family counselor. Couples would come to me with a presenting problem, but rarely was it that simple. The presenting problem was always a symptom of an underlying...

Recapturing the Vision By Michele Hall The idea for a village entrance was first hatched way back in 1995 when the then City Council saw a need to beautify the village entrance and began a series of forums and discussions to analyze and explore their options. In 2000, over 1,000...

Editor, What we learned in Carlsbad on Sept. 26 at the first NRC meeting on decommissioning San Onofre is that the NRC is giving SCE two years to come up with a plan for decommissioning SONGS that doesn’t need NRC approval or anyone’s approval. We can as...

Editor, If Laguna Beach removed all parking space lines which are now painted with extra space between the parking space lines, added parking kiosks dispensing receipts for dashboards, and let as many cars park more tightly on the streets (car sizes differ dramatically-many...

Editor, Maybe no one else in North Laguna, Mystic Hills, Temple Hills and Top of the World has noticed or cares, but the jet traffic over our neighborhoods is steadily increasing along with the noise and air pollution in the form of fine particles of unburned carbon (soot) that...

Laguna Beach High School student trumpeter Aaron Alcouloumre sounded the national anthem on Friday, Oct. 4, before the football game while a police color guard paraded to honor fallen Laguna Beach police officer Jon Coutchie, who was a member of the detail. Photo by Doug Landrum  

As the 20th anniversary of the 1993 Laguna Beach fire approaches, it serves as a reminder that fire season is here, although student safety remains a top priority throughout the year, the school district announced in a statement. “The safety of children is our first priority,”...

Laguna Beach High School’s PTA is looking for artists and craftspeople to participate in this year’s annual Holiday Boutique to be held on Dec. 7 in the Laguna Beach High School’s Dugger Gym. Vendors will enjoy five hours of foot traffic drawn not only by the free-admission...

This month’s Coffee Break features Emily Diehl, who will discuss the educational implications of mindset and provide practical ways in which parents and educators can encourage an expansive mindset at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course. Diehl...

The Council on International Educational Exchange is looking for host families for high-school aged students for the 2013/2014 school year. Students have the appropriate visa, medical insurance and pay for all of their own personal expenses. The only requirement from the host...

Timberwolves rout Laguna, 35-19 Laguna had only themselves to blame by delivering five consecutive turnovers on their first five possessions last Friday, Oct. 4, at Guyer Field, losing their final non-league contest of the season to what had been a winless Northwood squad....

Girls Volleyball (11-9, 2-0) Breakers Sweeping Through League Laguna opened their conference play with a pair of sweeps taking Saddleback 25-8, 25-15, 25-14 last Thursday and stopping Estancia 25-16, 25-19, 25-19 on Tuesday, Oct. 8. In the Thursday, Oct. 3, match, Kelsey Paul led...

Led by junior Brenna Merchant’s new school record of 13:01, Laguna finished third at the Palos Verdes Invitational at Palos Verdes High on Saturday, Oct. 5.  Merchant’s time easily beat the 13:14 Natasha Strickland (’12) ran two years ago as a senior on the two-mile course....

By Joe Kelleher, Special to the Independent Laguna Beach’s Emily Moore, who attended St. Margaret’s Episcopal School and graduated in 2012, is making headlines as a star sophomore on the New York University women’s volleyball team. Moore, who is the starting setter...

Southern California Edison’s “routine” replacement of two utility poles in Bluebird Canyon was anything but routine for the residents of 50 nearby homes. They received mandatory evacuation orders prior to Wednesday’s extraction by helicopter of two utility poles...