Taking Stock
Nix to Bricks
Stocks continue to bounce around in response to new quarterly earnings reports and in reaction to their decent advance over the last...
Whale Gives Rescuers the Slip
By Ben Bodart, Special to the Independent
Rescuers, forced by nightfall to quit efforts to cut lines entangling a whale spotted near Laguna Beach on...
Street Beat
Identity Thief Leads the High Life
A 36-year-old man who caromed between 11 resort hotels in Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa over the past four...
Telling Their Stories in Dance
Laguna’s Artists’ Theatre will come alive next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 26-28, with the spring dance show honoring this year’s senior class.
“Twelve” will...
Class Notes
Rotary Distributes the Write Book
In support of literacy month, Laguna Beach’s Rotary Club distributed 221 Webster’s Dictionary for Students to third grade students at...
Local Boy Grow Into a Fulbright Scholar
Everett Alexander Heiney, son of Dr. and Mrs. Terry Heiney of Laguna Beach, will receive a Fulbright teaching assistantship to the republic of Georgia,...
Identity Thief Leads the High Life
A 36-year-old man apparently living the high life, hopscotching for months between Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa resort hotels by using purloined credit card...
Playhouse Previews Its Next Season
Laguna Playhouse leaders lifted the curtain on its 91st year of productions, a six-play series seasoned with contemporary classics, musicals and a premiere as...
Taking Stock
The Bigger The Better
After beginning the year in a steady uptrend, stocks are now bouncing around. This volatility is not necessarily unfavorable as long...
Woman Injured in Hit and Run
A woman was thrown to the ground and suffered minor injuries after being sideswiped by a vehicle whose driver left the scene last Thursday,...
Broadway Star Mentors Local Students
Broadway composer John Bucchino conducted a master class with promising student vocalists at Laguna Beach High School earlier this month.
LBHS singers each prepared two...
Sharing Their Talents for Student Players
Classical guitarist Eric Henderson performs with Laguna's own Blues Offenders on Saturday, April 21, in Laguna Vibrations, a benefit concert for the instrumental music...
Class Notes
Thurston’s Students Present the Past
The annual tradition of Thurston’s oral history presentations brought the past to life with funny stories, interesting bits of advice...
Local Student Takes a Gap Year to Brazil
Sam Wellsfry, who will graduate from Laguna Beach High School in June, has been accepted to AFS Brazil and will spend next year returning...
Suspected Thief Hides Out in Robin Hood’s Lair
Detectives on Tuesday arrested a convicted felon staying in Anaheim’s Robin Hood Hotel, who police say had secreted $178,000 worth of stolen jewelry in...