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Editor, Re: “They are among the residents in 108 homes on 14 mostly dead-end streets that splay off of Alta Vista Way confronting a potential street-parking ban as a way to improve access for emergency vehicles. The pilot plan would last a year,” according to an Indy article in...

Editor, The Laguna Playhouse candidate forum was all but about art. The Alliance for the Arts even refused to hand out its original questions to anyone. This demonstrates powerlessness, especially when done in the name of the arts. Next to ignoring the increasingly flourishing...

Editor, Multi-use paths serve an alternative to the automobile roadway for connecting Laguna’s outlying communities with downtown. South Laguna, Canyon Acres, Sun Valley, and North Laguna neighborhoods would benefit from multi-use paths for pedestrians and recreational...

Editor, The Laguna Beach Keystone Kops – pardon, the City Council – are once more dashing about, raising much dust but covering little ground while chasing the decades-old village entrance eidolon, throwing to the winds a quarter-million here and a half-million there,...

Editor, I am voting for Verna Rollinger and Judie Mancuso for Laguna Beach City Council because we desperately need enlightened leaders. Mayor Steve Dicterow’s latest scheme to have OCTA buses  transport visitors from the freeway to our bus terminal was a bust and I believe...

Mirror Mirror   Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most enterprising school candidate of all? “Who’s asking?” It’s me, Crantz. I write the Pet Peeves column. “Oh, such dreck. But that’s a good thing because you never crack me up.” So, you’ll help me? The mirror hesitates....

Alright to be a Sister Now?               Once upon a time a very long time ago, or long enough ago, I was born. This was before birth control, women’s sportswear, or anyone used fitness in the same sentence as women. My mother that year was given a bonus. I guess the...

By Charlie Warner, Special to the Independent The Laguna Beach Classic Car Show pulls into town Sunday, Oct. 2, a 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. affair that features interesting cars and often interesting car owners alongside their vintage autos. The event will take place in the parking lot...

May 2, 1938 – Aug. 13, 2016 Born and raised in Spokane, Wash., Joe Cyr is the son of Joe and Monnie Cyr. Cyr is survived by his daughter Cindy Cavignac, of San Diego, and sons, Jeff, of Newport Beach, and Chad, of Louisville, Ky.; brother Jim Cyr, of Seattle, Wash.; and eight...

Dawn Mariko Spurlock, born and raised in Laguna Beach, died peacefully at the age of 56 on Sept. 8, 2016, after a four-month battle against cancer. She is survived by her partner of many years, Asia Salet, her mother Marcia French, her brothers Jeff and Mark Spurlock, and...

Olympic water polo gold medalists Aria and Makenzie Fischer graciously greeted fans at a community award ceremony and small-scale carnival on the newly renovated high school field Sunday, Sept. 11.

Editor, The Laguna Alliance for the Arts’ candidate forum exposed what is wrong with the arts today in a city that relies on its past and the hearsay of elders that Laguna Beach is still artistically relevant. This forum was about the relationship between the city and art...

By Christine Fugate, Special to the Independent This year, 15,000 kids will be diagnosed with some form of childhood cancer. One Laguna Beach family knows how devastating this diagnosis can be. In 2009, Susan and Steve Giusto’s daughter, Cathryn, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma,...

Mr. Clean The recent Indy article, “Unexpected Surplus of Volunteers for Beach Clean-up,” had a profound impact on me. At first I did my usual thing. I clipped out Pet Peeves for the time capsule. But right after, I didn’t throw the newspaper on the floor for my wife to...

Editor: In last week’s story concerning the proposed hike in the hotel bed tax, I was quoted as saying I do not think this measure will pass. What I was trying to say is that if the measure does pass, what I understand to be the twin objectives will not be satisfied. (1) A...