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For others such as Noah Blanton, of Laguna Beach, playing professionally means seeing the world. Basketball has taken this 22-year-old 8,000 miles away from home, to Hong Kong.

Sound Off I wasn’t there, but can imagine that attendees heard a pin drop at last week’s city council meeting.  A city councilperson said she had enough.  She declared no more noise after she experienced the racket of 75 motorcycles cruising down Coast Highway several Sundays...

Mini Me, My Familiar Although more than a week has passed I realized that I’m still angling the kitchen chairs to make it easy to jump from floor to table. I obsessively close the toilet lid for safety’s sake. I shut the front and sliding doors even when I’m merely reaching out...

Read the Personals LOST MY HEART.  Handsome, shirtless guitar guy at Forest Avenue with a pit bull.  You were singing to the crowd gathered near the gelato shop. Hoped to talk to you, but my Uber arrived. I’ll be back next week. #CanWeTalk HUGE OVAL TRAMPOLINE for sale – $300. ...

I wonder how many of us living in Laguna Beach today are aware of the debt of gratitude we owe two artists who have now left us? In their three decades-long Laguna Canyon Project, Jerry Burchfield, who died in 2009, and Mark Chamberlain, who passed away only recently,

Editor, Elections matter and whom we choose to elect as our representatives say a lot about who we are. Over the last year I have had the pleasure of getting to know each of the candidates for the 48th Congressional District, which is why I endorsed Dr. Hans Keirstead...

Editor: The city is deliberately misleading the public with the false concept of a one-cent tax. The city of Laguna Beach is asking for a 1% sales tax increase (from 7.75% to 8.75%) Saying one cent is at a minimum deceptive and can be misleading to a large majority of the...

Editor, So far, the debate avoids the primary issue of ultimate responsibility. We read about evacuation and fire hazards and then jump to the question of how much tax should we citizens agree to. But let’s look at a fundamental question. Who owns these wires and poles? If these...

Editor, The City Council voted for a ballot measure to fund undergrounding Edison utility lines without first addressing concerns expressed by a majority of residents. The newly formed resident advocacy group STOP made a factual presentation in opposition. Many speakers raised...

Editor, As we are all aware single use plastic straws are the one of our biggest environmental offenders. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found them to be consistently in the top five discarded items found on our shores. More than 500 million are used and...

Editor, What the city could not accomplish in 50 years, to enliven the village entrance, two businesses achieved within two months. This is the first time I feel that the city shows some art relevance with her newest public art. Meaning, Laguna falls in the realm where visitors...

In the burst of construction, an electrician moved his family here in the early ‘30s. David and Sylvia Barbour, with children Weston, Margie, and Jean, settled into a home on Vista Drive, near the town’s two-room schoolhouse (now the American Legion Hall, relocated to Legion...

At a performance for her aunt’s memorial, Whitney studied and adopted the jazz and blues stylings of Eva Cassidy. Another Cassidy fan, one of Whitney’s elementary school teachers, sent a video of her studentto Wendy Milette, of the My Hero Film Festival in Laguna Beach.

Message in a Bottle The Laguna Bluebelt Coalition is an advocate of marine conservation.  A recent Indy article, “On the Hunt for Water Wasters” explains the coalition is expanding its mission inland.  Holy Neptune. Adjust your sexton readers. The Bluebelt organization is making...

Can’t Cut the Mustard The best part of a drive to San Diego is the portion of the journey through Camp Pendelton. The Marines have done a wonderful job of preserving the base as nature made it. It’s a vista of native California that underscores how much we change the places we...