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Third Street Writers Nurture the Written Word When people think of Laguna Beach and creative expression, images of the Festival of the Arts, Pageant of the Masters or the Sawdust Festival come to mind. Some years ago, a small group of Laguna residents felt th...

A Laguna Beach school board member has been excluded from a new subcommittee created to hear personnel and litigation matters after the school district's lawyer said she'd been leaking confidential information.

Karol A. Kunysz Karol A. Kunysz passed away on Wednesday May 29, 2019 at the age of 91. Karol was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on March 26, 1928, the son of Helen and Paul Kunysz. Karol earned a Masters in Education, majoring in chemistry and physics. Before beginning his...

Short Story Short-term lodging (STL) was front and center at a recent City Council meeting. One resident cried, “You can’t make me, as a property owner, rent to only short people.” Another citizen piled on. “It’s discriminatory. I’m tall. Are you telling me that I couldn’t rent...

By LBHS Surf Coaches Scott Finn and Alisa Cairns The Laguna Beach High School surf team had a very successful weekend surfing in the NSSA National Championships for the third year in a row. Laguna’s tremendous showing took them all the way to third overall out of 17 teams...

  Lance Neal, Laguna Beach High School’s Athletic Director, recently released the 13th Annual All-Sport Award winners. The high school has had an annual award for many of the 85 seasons of athletic competition, with the current program starting in 2007....

The Grand Puppet Play was masterfully performed by the Grand Puppeteer, the City Manager, on Tuesday at City Council. Once upon a time, a tale of feats was told that any hard-working city manager would ordinarily perform. But in Lagunaland, ordinary feats were magically...

I fail to understand the city sponsoring the destruction of trees because some disgruntled person feels they obstruct the view. Trees are part of the view and are good for the environment. There should be an ordinance protecting them. On our street, at least three trees have been...

At the School Board meeting of June 11, Dee Perry compellingly justified her response to an email from the school superintendent’s lawyer, offering unsolicited direction to stop speaking out on public policy matters to avoid personal legal and financial ruin. Board member Vickers...

The recent actions of our School Board majority make me question if they are acting out of ignorance, retaliation or blind trust of our superintendent. Have they violated Dee Perry’s constitutional rights and those of the voting community? The district counsel, Mark Bresee,...

Tuesday evening (6/11) I attended my first LB School Board meeting since perhaps the closing of Aliso School. It’s been awhile. But I’ve been quite concerned with the stories in the local papers and online about the targeting of Dee Perry for various “infringements” of Board...

Last week, I attended the Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation Honors Convocation, at which $400,000 was given directly to 132 students. In addition, we learned that one student gained United States Naval Academy admission, and another achieved ROTC Army conditional...

The New Anti-Semitism “Anti-Semitism is hostility towards or prejudice against the Jewish people.” We are fortunate to live in a community which is populated by tolerant people who are overwhelming not anti-Semitic, or for that matter, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT or any other group or...

Off the Menu By Christopher Trela | NB Indy Summer is fast approaching, which means it’s nearly time to celebrate the arts in Laguna Beach. The popular Sawdust Art & Craft Festival and the nearby Art-A-Fair both open their doors at the end of June, while Festival of Arts and...

Omaya Hassan Charaf Johnson Omaya Hassan Charaf Johnson was born in Damascus Syria, on April 23, 1923, to a Lebanese mother and a Syrian father, Hassan Mahmoud Charaf M.D. He was a physician to (and rode with) Prince Faisal of Arabia and T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) during the Arab...