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About 400 South County residents packed Laguna Niguel City Hall on Monday, May 15, for a town hall forum on the changes of flight paths to and from John Wayne Airport.

Nonprofits Benefit as Taste for Charity Guests Indulge Join the Laguna Board of Realtors and the Charitable Assistance Fund at the 22nd annual Taste for Charity gala at Tivoli Too!, Wednesday, May 24. The fundraising soiree includes live entertainment and libations, dishes from...

  The first annual Hobie Alter Memorial 3-Club Barefoot Golf Tournament will take place at 1 p.m. Monday, May 22, at The Ranch at Laguna Beach. Proceeds will benefit The Hobie Memorial planned for Dana Point. A sculpture depicting Alter leaning from a Hobie cat sailboat is...

Art College Raises Scholarship Funds Guests of a Laguna College of Art and Design scholarship fundraiser contributed $40,000 during an event last month at the new LCAD Administration Building, 2265 Laguna Canyon Road. Attendees enjoyed tours and student demonstrations in the...

The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, presents “85 Years of Art,” a summer exhibit allied with the Pageant of the Masters and Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach. Guests are invited to view this recently opened display at the resort through Sept. 5. The exhibit includes work from the...

Michelle Temple’s interactive multimedia event celebrating artistic inspiration begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Dr. Created by Pacific Symphony musician Michelle Temple, the multimedia event discusses the drive of the artist with a...

Laguna local Rossandra White will introduce her new book, “Monkey’s Wedding” at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 21, at Laguna Beach Books, 1200 S. Coast Highway. The protagonists, adolescents Elizabeth and Tururu share an uneasy friendship on a remote sisal plantation in 1953’s Zimbabwe when...

Like its Crops, TOW’s Garden Keeps Growing   A school garden project at Top of the World Elementary School has been awarded a $10,000 grant from Seeds of Change for its work in the community, the organization announced last week. Nearly 600 applications were considered by the...

Seventy-two barefoot golfers hit the links and were tasked with teeing off wrong-handed, wearing oven mitts and other various handicaps for the 3 Clubs Barefoot Canyon Classic earlier this month. The event hosted by The Ranch raised over $48,000 for SchoolPower, which fundraises...

John H. Cox, the Republican candidate for governor of California, speaks to Laguna Beach Republicans at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, at the Woman’s club, 286 St. Anne’s Dr. In addition to running for governor, Cox is sponsoring an initiative modeled after the legislative process of...

Keep It Wild Volunteer Day takes place Saturday, May 20, at Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. Join OC Parks and Laguna Canyon Foundation from 8-11 a.m. for habitat restoration work such as removal of non-native plants, seed collection and planting native plants. No experience is...

The public is welcome to join a 5-8 p.m. reception for the artists of “Waterworks,” Saturday, May 13, at the Forest & Ocean Gallery, 480 Ocean Ave., shared with the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association. The juried exhibition includes 40 original works in watercolors created...

Musicians Matt Venuti, Pam Wicks and Doug Miller perform live Saturday, May 20, in “A Concert to Celebrate What Unites Us,” at 6:30 p.m. at the Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann’s Dr. The evening will include unusual instruments, special songwriting, piano,...

The friendship of designers Tony Duquette and Elsie de Wolfe is portrayed in a duo of books, “The Walk to Elsie’s” and “The Walk From Elsie’s” written by Hutton Wilkinson and Manfred Kuhnert who will be hosted by the Laguna Playhouse Women in a lecture and book signing from 4:30-...