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Residents Explore Changing Downtown

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"Do you think this preliminary idea for Cliff Drive merits further exploration?" reads a poster taped to a wall. Hand-written yesses filled the relevant...

School Hiring Sets a Record, Yields Complaints

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Hiring a record 10 new teachers was approved by the Laguna Beach Unified School District board in a special meeting and has prompted a...

Festival’s Interior Makeover Moves Ahead

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If all goes according to plan, patrons entering the Festival of Arts grounds next season will find the experience more user-friendly, with better situated...

Questions Arise Over Missing Board Member

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Carol Normandin, elected to the Laguna Beach Unified School District board last November, has been absent from meetings since April due to a family...

Stand Up Paddle Rules Under Scrutiny

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A year-old ordinance regulating commercial stand-up paddleboard operators has yielded frustrations for city enforcement officials and SUP operators alike. The former complain of overtaxed...

Pool Builders Call Ban All Wet

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Like Laguna Beach, at least 30 other cities and water districts in the state have turned off the tap and prohibited the filling of...

Special Olympics Torch Lights Up the Town

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A 41-person relay team bearing a torch lit 6,900 miles away in Athens, Greece, made its way across a mile of Laguna Beach on...

‘Orange Sunshine’ Explores an Often Forgotten Era

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By Richard Chang, Special to the Independent Books lead to movies all the time, but it’s rare when a book inspires an art exhibition. That appears...

Art, Surf Lovers Suffer Storm Losses

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Tropical moisture from Hurricane Delores that drenched Laguna Beach over the weekend rained out the Sunday production of the Pageant of the Masters, only...

Special Olympics Torch Lights Up the Town

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A relay team of more than 40 people bearing a torch lit in Athens made its way through a mile of Laguna Beach on...

Biking at 10,000 Feet

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Laguna local Hans Rey and Austrian champion trail biker Tom Oehler explored the rough and remote Guatemalan Highlands riding trails at an elevation of...

Retrospective Revels in Local Lore of a Certain Era

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Bill Ogden has often been labeled a “surf artist,” but judging by a current exhibition of his works at the Laguna College of Art...

Festival of Arts Opens Despite Wild Fire

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The Festival of Arts opened despite a brush fire breaking out less than a mile away in Laguna Canyon last Friday, July 3. The quick...

Skateboard Park Still a Pipedream

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The idea of an in-town skateboard park has gone from a promise made 25 years ago to what supporters today say may be a...

Appeal Halts Cutting of Fire Breaks

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A plan to thin brush on land deemed “extremely dangerous” in Nyes and Oro Canyons was stymied last week by an appeal to the...