City Hall Calendar
Monday, July 18
Heritage Committee, 6 p.m., Council Chambers
Thursday, July 21
City Council, 6 p.m., Council Chambers
Exposing the Human Form
Posing stark naked for 120 long seconds in front of thousands of strangers can be a tribulation. Since 1936, when Margo Goddard posed as...
New Top Executive at Hotel Laguna
Nearly a year after the death of Claes Andersen, the chef-proprietor and wine aficionado who restored the historic Hotel Laguna, Heinz U. Hofmann was...
Only the Truth Is Funny
Lola Gillebaard, the amusing muse
Lola Gillebaard came into this world weighing only a pound and a half.
Now, at 81, she weighs in as one...
New Hotspots Burnish Laguna’s Dining Reputation
When it comes to dining, the odds are improving that your preferences in food or ambiance can be found on a Laguna Beach street...
Green Light
Putting in a Plug for Laguna Beach
By Tom Osborne
I attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the completion of our city’s first two electric car plug-in...
AAUW Awards Nine Science Grants
Rotary Club is top donor in 2010
For the past four years, the American Association of University Women Laguna Beach Branch has appealed to the...
Get Out of the House
Sum, sum, summertime!It seems that Mother Nature is going to allow Laguna to have a summer this year. After last year’s disappointingly gloomy non-summer,...
School Board Approves Final Budget
First-year Supt. Sherine Smith’s four-year contract was extended 12 months by the school board last week, which also adopted a $40.9 million budget and...
Parents Pride Shines At Graduation Day
More than 20 local families celebrated as their children finished the first year of Even Start Club Preschool last month at the Boys &...
Trio Wins Volleyball Championship
Three local girls competed at the annual volleyball festival in Phoenix recently and their team finished undefeated at 11-0. The event was attended by...
Street Beat
Pedestrian Struck Near Aliso Beach
A 23-year-old Coast Highway pedestrian suffered severe injuries as a result of a 7: 35 p.m. July 4 collision with...
Body Found on Laguna’s Main Beach
Police on a routine patrol discovered the body of a homeless man who appeared to have died a few hours earlier on Main Beach...
Marine Protections to Take Effect Oct. 1
The state Fish and Game Commission voted 4-1 this week to set Oct. 1 the effective date for increased marine protections in Southern California,...
Elegant Design Selected for Sept. 11 Memorial
Laguna Beach artist Jorg Dubin’s concept for a Sept. 11 memorial sculpture was unanimously endorsed Monday by the city’s Arts Commission for installation in...