Coffee Break Expert Discusses Love, Discipline and Achievement
This month’s Coffee Break will feature local psychologist and author Dr. Thomas Habib during a 7-9 p.m. seminar at Aliso Creek Inn on Wednesday,...
Drumming up Support for LBHS Band
Dine at the Lumberyard restaurant on Sunday, Jan. 22, between 5 and 9 p.m. and mention the Laguna Beach High School band. Supporters will...
Thurston Students Take an Epic Challenge
There were skateboard races, basketball dunks, straw races, and even the messy, but sweet game of finding the gummy worm at the bottom of...
Rotary Student of the Month Honored
The Rotary Club of Laguna Beach honored Jackson Tupy as the high school's student of the month for December.
He was accompanied by his foreign...
Children Injured in Drunk Mother’s Pile-up
Two young children were treated for minor injuries and taken to Orangewood Children’s Home after their mother was arrested following a collision last Saturday,...
Author Sprints for Literacy
Laguna Beach resident Dennis Yang, who has written over 110 children stories under the pen name Papa Didos, finished a 3,281-mile cross-country journey last...
‘Streets’ Task Force Takes a Detour
A month after the City Council appropriated $300,000 to make city streets friendlier to foot-powered users, meetings for the task force charged with initiating...
Goats Get Downsized
Most people have grown used to waking up to outside sounds of accidentally triggered car alarms, barking dogs, noisy crows, even police and fire...
Schools’ Leader Exudes Optimism for 2012
Despite dire economic news on the state and national level, Betsy Jenkins begins her 10th year on the Laguna Beach school board and her...
Musings on the Coast
The Concrete Foreman
My father was a construction contractor and I worked on his jobsites from the time I was 8. So from my earliest...
Acrimony Adds to Church’s Turmoil
Parishioners of Laguna Beach’s St. Francis by the Sea Cathedral bundled up Christmas Eve for a candlelight vigil outside the historic chapel, barred from...
Taking Stock
Quick Start for 2012
Stocks came out swinging at the opening bell of 2012. For a brief period, the market was not burdened with bad...
Eavesdrops
Special Delivery
Hi Grampa,
It’s Cindy.
Can you take Mrs. Peterson her dinner tomorrow?
I have a school assignment.
Oh, take some left overs or
A sandwich and some soup...
Wrong Turn for Suspected Car Thieves
Two people who abandoned a stolen vehicle that became jammed in a pedestrian stairwell while trying to evade pursuing police were taken into custody...
Year’s Final Day Yields Gold for Non-Profits
While retailers and individuals by now have wrapped up the annual binge of gift selling and buying, leaders of some nonprofits are still anticipating...