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By Tammy Keces, Special to the Independent Top of the World’s fourth- and fifth-grade Gate students dressed in ethnic clothing, learned salutations in a foreign tongue...

Firebrand Media, a local media company most notably known for Laguna Beach Magazine, agreed in principle to acquire the Laguna Beach Independent at a...

By WILLIAM HAGLE |LB Indy  Sixty-seven year old Jim Keegan, a gentle six-plus footer schooled in New York’s Catholic parochial schools, can be found Monday...

Edited by Andy Hedden, with contributions from Patricia Truman. The next time you’re on the 200 block of Ocean Avenue, stand across the street from...

By Masha Goncharova, Special to the Independent  Laguna Beach High School’s new dance director, Lisa Jay, aims for a single goal this year: get the...

It takes passion to launch a non-profit organization and resources to sustain it. Wossene Bowler, a Laguna Beach resident since 1996 who is the...

Part 2 As early as the 1920s there was a summer camp for girls in Aliso Canyon. It was operated by Madame Marian Gordon as...

By Suzie Harrison Ascending a spiral staircase to the North Laguna Beach set, a cheering crowd goes wild for “The Duke Fightmaster Show,” a weekly...

Part 1 Pennsylvania mining heiresses Blanche and Florence Dolph chose the coastal foothills of Laguna and south Orange County as the focus of their property...

By Andrea Adelson Two years ago, Pat Forster was served up an unknown chapter of his storied family history while having lunch at Molly’s Café...

By Dale Ghere, Special to the Independent The first metal towers  Around 1958, Chief Lifeguard Art Fizette decided lifeguards needed to be up off the beach...

BY SUZANNE DUNN Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stopped briefly last month. So did one of her Democratic rivals, New Mexico’s governor, Bill Richardson. Four years ago, so...

St. Clair Family Norman St. Clair, Laguna's First Artist  Part 1 By Ann Christoph Artist and architect Norman St. Clair and his descendents played a powerful role...

By Jean Stern, Special to the Independent Joseph Kleitsch was born in 1882 in Nemet Szent Mihaly, a part of Hungary that is now part...

                      By Mark Chamberlain, Special to the Indy In the Spring of 1989, my partner Jerry Burchfield and I, with the help of scores of dedicated...