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Editor, Ann Christoph has been our neighbor in South Laguna for 24 years.  During this time, she has always been very friendly to us and we have appreciated that. She is a legend; her past work with the City Council, her community service, and her dedication to preserving the...

Editor: Thank you for the well-balanced article by Gabriella Mix, “Local Beaches Earn High Marks,” regarding Heal the Bay beach ratings for our Laguna Beach shoreline in the Indy, June 22. It was very informative. Sadly, our beaches are not pristine, and we must not sit back and...

Editor, Thanks to the Indy’s reporting last week, we now know Heal the Bay doesn’t go to the beach. Heal the Bay simply compiles reports from Orange County Public Works, which ignores that Aliso Creek is federally listed as an impaired water body for enterococci, Escherichia...

Editor, In a letter published in the June 22 edition (“Caltrans Holds Canyon Road Improvement Plan Hearing”),  the writer seems to ask that the town and city council wait for Caltrans to underground utilities along Laguna Canyon Road, as Caltrans now proposes to do on a short...

Editor, I really enjoyed the letter to the editor by Fareed Farukhi regarding the Urth Caffe’s gesture to Laguna Beach and other communities in response to the court settlement that was recently decided. Urth Caffe opened their doors to everyone who would come in response to that...

Editor, Thank you very much for including the news item about Laguna Beach’s Michael Lewis in the June 8 edition of the Laguna Beach Independent. I really enjoyed reading about fellow PWC competitor Nicolai Elghanayan in the same edition. You and your team always do a great...

The Season of Incivility I went kayaking last Sunday with a group of schoolteachers from Pasadena who were spending a week in Laguna for their annual mindfulness retreat. I thought it was cool that they were practicing mindfulness. Cooler still that they were teaching it. I asked...

Preview parties summoned local residents this week to the Sawdust Art Festival and Art-a-Fair, both of which open their doors on Laguna Canyon Road Friday, June 29, and for the remainder of the two-month long summer season. A similar ritual will be carried out next week on the...