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Laguna Beach Independent Letters Section

Tree Plans Draw Critics, Defenders

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...