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By Jennifer Erickson | LB Indy Andy Siegenfeld's goal at the Laguna Food Pantry is twofold: provide free food to those in need and remove...

  In assessing last year’s standout moments and what looms ahead in 2014, Laguna Beach’s elected officials differed little in their analysis about high and...

  By Rita Robinson The 13th year of the 21st Century brought good luck as well as bad, victories and resignations, beginnings and abrupt endings.  Here’s...

By Donna Furey, Special to the Independent The ideal community service projects undertaken by bar and bat mitzvah candidates help transform the 13-year-olds into young...

By Donna Furey, Special to the Independent Choices abound for New Year’s celebrations in and around Laguna Beach this year, including two different Gatsby-themed costume...

The sign said, Crystal Cove State Park Campground. This was Laguna Beach, Calif., Dec. 24, 2013. I saw Dawn open one eye. “Hey, go back...

Stroll along the glorious bluffs of Heisler Park in North Laguna around seven in the morning and you’ll eventually find a small pack of...

  Three crows swoop overhead and I follow them in the old kayak towards what used to be Laguna Beach. Skeletons of buildings covered in...

Two little pale faces peer at me. “What, sure, what time is it?” asks Jacob. “In California or Texas? Grandpa made coffee.” They climb over...

It’s a beautiful December evening. The sun is doing its usual slow motion decent into the icy waters of the Pacific as people stroll...

  We just moved into a smaller home and I can’t figure out where to put the Christmas tree.  I asked my husband, Gary, what...

    “The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.” -John Muir   By Victoria Jertz Laguna Beach Municipal Code: 6.24.030...

After deliberating less than six hours, a jury last week found Matthew Thomas Dragna guilty of the 2009 bludgeoning-murder of Damon Nicholson in his...

By Donna Furey, Special to the Independent Local churches mark the coming holiday with Christmas experiences from traditional to trendy and everything in between. In...