Tree Plans Draw Critics, Defenders
Editor,
On June 29 I attended an open meeting to review the landscaping plan recently developed by city staff covering Broadway, Forest, etc.
About 99 percent...
Aggressive Tactics Needed Against Smokers
Editor,
I’m alarmed and angered every time I walk up to the Carolyn Wood Knoll. More unsettling than the ever-present scourge of trash and graffiti...
Rolling Pot Onto the Political Agenda
Editor,
Laguna Beach has at least eighty retail outlets for alcohol, the deadly liquid which causes intoxication and alcoholism, a disease that kills millions of...
Columnist Errs in Straying into Politics
Editor,
Nice article by James Utt.
He is really growing as a writer.
However, I do not see the necessity of making his article about a fire...
A Two-Faced Town
Editor,
At 10 a.m., the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Sawdust Festival took place last Friday with Laguna Beach City Council member Steve Dicterow, a...
SoLag Subsidizes City Budget
Editor,
Thanks to JJ Gasparotti for his June 22 column in the Indy about South Laguna being considered a place apart and with a history...
A Love Affair with Land, Sea and Canoe
Editor,
As a Hawaii transplant and former canoe paddler I was very excited to read of the upcoming film, “Year on the Water,” a documentary...
Christoph Receives an Early Endorsement
Editor,
Ann Christoph has been our neighbor in South Laguna for 24 years. During this time, she has always been very friendly to us and...
County Ocean-Sampling Misses Pollutants
Editor:
Thank you for the well-balanced article by Gabriella Mix, “Local Beaches Earn High Marks,” regarding Heal the Bay beach ratings for our Laguna Beach...
We Are All in the Plume
Editor,
Thanks to the Indy’s reporting last week, we now know Heal the Bay doesn’t go to the beach. Heal the Bay simply compiles reports...
Caltrans Addresses Just a Section of Utility Poles in Laguna Canyon
Editor,
In a letter published in the June 22 edition (“Caltrans Holds Canyon Road Improvement Plan Hearing”), the writer seems to ask that the town and...
Unintended Racism Sprouts an Olive Branch
Editor,
I really enjoyed the letter to the editor by Fareed Farukhi regarding the Urth Caffe’s gesture to Laguna Beach and other communities in response...
Thumbs Up for Coverage of Auto Racers
Editor,
Thank you very much for including the news item about Laguna Beach's Michael Lewis in the June 8 edition of the Laguna Beach Independent.
I...
Gesture Builds Understanding
Editor,
My family and I drove to Urth Caffe in Laguna Beach not because they were offering free coffee and desserts as part of a...
More Than Expected in Signs Story
Editor,
I’ve been meaning to write to you ever since I saw the street sign article in last Friday’s Indy “Signs Point the Way to...