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  Sawdust Art Festival’s Winter Fantasy continues this weekend, featuring a special event with Santa and the Laguna Beach Fire Department. On Saturday, Dec. 8, at 8:30 a.m., enjoy a pancake breakfast cooked up by local firefighters while spending time with Santa. Starbucks...

Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) raised over $300,000 at its 29th Annual Collector’s Choice Juried Art Auction and Fundraiser held on Friday, Nov. 16, at Montage Laguna Beach. The college also announced a $1 million gift from The Moulton Company to benefit the student...

LBHS Musicians to Perform at Carnegie Hall                         Laguna Beach High School’s instrumental music groups have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in April 2019. Under the direction of Jeremy Chung,...

A former Laguna Beach couple who lived on Starlit Drive in Bluebird Canyon for more than 50 years is recuperating from the loss of their new home in Paradise after it burned in the Camp Fire three weeks after they moved in.

Last week, Thurston Middle School eighth graders had the opportunity to become familiar with the issue of immigration on a personal level. While honing their language skills with a long-distance pen pal, the middle schoolers discovered that they were talking to a Central American...

  The next Laguna Canyon Conservancy (LCC) dinner meeting will be held Monday, Dec. 3, at Seven7Seven (formerly Tivoli Too!) at the Art-A-Fair at 777 Laguna Canyon Road. The program will provide an update on Laguna Canyon Road Caltrans projects by Laguna Canyon Foundation...

The City of Laguna Beach and the Chamber of Commerce will again jointly sponsor Laguna’s beloved Hospitality Night from 5-10 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7. Sing carols, mingle with neighbors and watch Santa light the tree in Peppertree parking lot 2, where festivities will take place....

Ticketed passengers passing through John Wayne Airport can view a new exhibit featuring Hobart “Hobie” Alter, a Southern California native known for inventing the “Hobie Cat” catamaran and changing the way people use the water for surfing and sailing The Vi Smith Concourse...

The Art & Nature exhibit presented by the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association at the Forest & Ocean Gallery from Oct. 29 – Nov. 12 featured 45 original paintings created by 33 LPAPA member artists. A total of 118 original works were showcased in the expanded online...

LBUSD Seeks Input with LCAP Survey On Nov. 26, the Laguna Beach Unified School District began administration of the 2018-19 Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) survey to gather feedback on the implementation of the district goals and state priorities, in partnership with...

Sage Hill School in Newport Coast recently announced that two of their alumni, who both hail from Laguna Beach, Carolyn Witte (2008 graduate) and Luke Droulez (2007 graduate), have been named to Forbes Magazine’s annual ‘30 under 30’ list. Witte and Droulez are the fifth and...

Schools continue to improve menus, but student interest is lacking By Amy Orr | LB Indy “We use seasonal produce that is local and organic. Our beef is grass-fed, with no hormones and no nitrates.” This sounds like an advertisement for a farm-to-table restaurant, but it is...

The Pacific Marine Mammal Center received approval from the Laguna Beach City Council on Nov. 13 to broaden the scope of its expansion, including the addition of a 2,150-square-foot, two-story building it plans to share with the Laguna Beach Animal Shelter.

Sponsors of the Liberate Laguna political action committee that invested heavily in the 2018 City Council election filed a complaint Nov. 15 against their ideological rival, Village Laguna, claiming that the nonprofit improperly took money from a former City Council candidate’s...