Top Arts Groups Reap a Budget Windfall
In a last minute addition to a wish-list of city expenditures, the Laguna Beach City Council preliminarily agreed Tuesday, Jan. 12, to issue $1 million matching grants to both Laguna Playhouse and the Laguna Art Museum over four years.
Mission Hospital CEO to Leave Post in February
Kenneth McFarland, chief executive officer of Mission Hospital, will leave his post effective Feb. 5. McFarland has been with Mission Hospital for 18 years and served as chief executive since 2011.
Coyote Trapping Contract Wins Approval
Since baited snare traps were set in Laguna Beach last month, six coyotes have been captured and killed and sightings have dropped markedly, the...
Top Art Institutions Benefit from City Budget Windfall
In a surprise addition to a mid-year review of the city’s budget, the Laguna Beach city Council agreed Tuesday, Jan. 12, to issue matching...
Laguna Still Misses Water Target
Water conservation by the 19,121 customers in the Laguna Beach County Water District remains short of a state-mandated 24 percent cutback, according to statistics released Tuesday, Jan. 5.
Ditching Corporate Stress for Backyard Farming
Broming assesses the amount of moisture and microbes in the soil for a soon-to-be vegetable patch
Local Philanthropist on Fire for Girl Power
Laguna local Kylie Schuyler will introduce Global G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World), a non-profit in Santa Ana she founded five years ago
Storms Lead Churches to Open Their Doors to the Homeless
As rain swept across Southern California this week, a determined group of volunteers secured temporary overnight shelter for homeless people turned away from the...
Innovators Remix Art Sales
When the going gets tough, the tough get creative. Four enterprising local gallery owners are navigating changes in the art market by devising new...
Vandals Tarnish High School on New Year’s Eve
Rooftop vandals broke into three science classrooms at Laguna Beach High School at 11:56 p.m. New Year’s Eve, covering every surface and laboratory equipment...
Mass Set This Week for Dolores Treviño
Dolores Marie DuPont Treviño passed away peacefully with her family by her side at her home in Laguna Beach on Dec. 30, 2015. Born...
Q&A With Rohrabacher
Congressman Shares his Views on Gun control, San Onofre and a Favorite Break
Persimmon Granted
How Volunteering Might Save My Holiday Cooking
I love holiday cooking. More accurately, I love when someone else does this kind of cooking and serves...
Since the Coyotes Came Down
Editor’s Note: This edition features submissions from a writers’ workshop led by local resident Christine Fugate. All are fiction, except as noted.
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Rescuers Aid Fall Victim
A 25-year-old Laguna Niguel man who had fallen from an ocean bluff was airlifted by helicopter from a south Laguna Beach around 2 p.m.,...