Healthy Girl Fest Features Sundance Film Documentary
“Miss Representation,” the film that exposes how mainstream media contributes to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence in America, will...
Personnel File 4/12/13
Semifinalists Include Laguna’s Montage Founder
Alan Fuerstman, founder and chief executive of Montage Hotels and Resorts, is one of 27 semifinalists in the Ernst &...
Street Beat 4/12/13
Monday, April 1
Vandalism. 400 block of Pinecrest Dr. 4:19 p.m. Several teens are suspected of spraying graffiti on Dartmoor.
Fraud report. 200 block of S....
Services Set for Victims of Canyon Collision
Services will be held this week for the victims of last week’s double fatality car collision in Laguna Beach even as accident investigators re-inspect...
Let’s Hear it for Laguna’s Art Stars
Laguna Concert Band Director Ed Peterson won a $5,000 Inspiration grant for his proposal to produce an original score for an animated student film...
Debating Ways to Keep the Wheels Rolling
Laguna Beach’s City Council will consider options at Tuesday’s meeting on how to close a growing deficit from running transit services, whose costs have...
Investigators to Revisit Scene of Double Fatality
Accident investigators expect to return to the scene of a double fatality in Laguna Beach and will temporarily close Laguna Canyon Road between El...
Downtown, Cops Walk a New Beat
Whole Foods manager Richard Dinan was still talking to Laguna Beach police dispatchers, describing a shoplifter that had exited the store with more than...
Era Ends for Eclectic Auto Shop
By Justin Swanson | LB Indy
“Jerry was in a bad wreck when he was 18,” Jennifer Piper reveals about her late husband, the former...
Emergency Status Unlocks Sea-Lion Aid
With the federal government declaring the extraordinary number of starving sea lion pups along the Southern California coastline an “unusual mortality event,” the door...
Kindling Community in Dark Corners
By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent
After spending more than 20 hours in the air, a group of local travellers dropped down in central...
Community Datebook 4/5/13
Ringing Up Receipts for Schools
Whole Foods Market at 283 Broadway St. on Thursday, April 11 will donate five percent of all sales to SchoolPower...
Green Thumb Alerts
Crimes Against Horticulture
Landscape architect, writer and speaker Billy Goodnick will speak at the upcoming meeting of the Laguna Beach Garden Club, 9:30 a.m., Friday,...
Benefits 4/5/13
Kudos for Employing the Disabled
Laguna Beach’s Montage resort was honored with a “Spotlight Award by the Regional Center of Orange County, which coordinates services...
Dave Gibbs
July 14, 1938 – March 27, 2013
David Rodney Gibbs lost his battle with cancer on March 27.
Gibbs was an old- school “Lagunan” who left...