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Opinion: Two Legs

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As I was walking into Vons’s supermarket in north Laguna, a woman named Christine Kelton stopped me and asked my name. When I told...

Opinion: The Post Office and the Street Gang 

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By Annlia Hill  Walter E. Parke followed Baird Coffin as Laguna Postmaster in 1953. Under his leadership, the post office moved from Broadway to 570...

Opinion: Finding Meaning 

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An Impulsive Side Trip  It started with a roof leak in an easy-to-ignore overhanging edge. Years passed, a tribute to my procrastination skill, and then...

Opinion: Dear Susi Q asks the question

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What’s the best advice you could give an advice columnist?  Lynette Brasfield answers: Take a hike! A few weeks ago, I hiked 2,300 feet up to Tahquitz...

Opinion: Random Guy Noticing Stuff

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By Gary Stewart Imagine being on a 61-foot-long vessel in the midst of the seemingly endless Pacific Ocean with no engine, no compass, no sextant,...

Opinion: Village Matters

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Let (_?__) Do It! We all have regrets in life, but I have a lingering one related to my service on the city council in...

Opinion: Green Light

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By George, Laguna Needs an Environmental Leader as Mayor Bob Gentry, Lida Lenney, Toni Iseman: all three were local officials and environmental activists. In my...

Opinion: The Significance of The Walk in The Canyon

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Together We Saved Laguna Canyon – Nov. 11, 1989 By Gene Felder Each of us who were there on that eventful day November 11, 1989 will...

Opinion: Finding Meaning 

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The Meaning of One Life  Want your life to make a difference for good in the world? Google the question, and you’ll get a plethora...

Opinion: Wisdom Workout 

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Open and Soften Your Vision  I think at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most...

Opinion: Finding Meaning

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A COVID-19 Silver Lining One of our sons, whose career actually started as a lawyer, invested with a partner in buying a pizza restaurant in...

Opinion: The Autumn of Our Years 

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It’s so hard to reconcile living in such a beautiful, bountiful place - with so many privileges and delights - with the human misery...

Letter to the Community: Remembering the ’93 Fire

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Dear Laguna Beach Community, Oct. 27, 2023, marks the 30th anniversary of the devastating 1993 wildfire that destroyed more than 400 homes in Laguna Beach....

Opinion: Wisdom Workout

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The Gifts of Silence Time has become a speed freak. It’s Monday, and then I blink, and it’s Friday. This has been going on for...

Opinion: Finding Meaning 

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“The best is yet to be...”  The Beautiful Wife and I are back in picturesque Midway, Utah, nestled in the ancestral home. It’s autumn. The...