Telling Their Stories in Dance
Laguna’s Artists’ Theatre will come alive next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, April 26-28, with the spring dance show honoring this year’s senior class.
“Twelve” will...
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Rotary Distributes the Write Book
In support of literacy month, Laguna Beach’s Rotary Club distributed 221 Webster’s Dictionary for Students to third grade students at...
Local Boy Grow Into a Fulbright Scholar
Everett Alexander Heiney, son of Dr. and Mrs. Terry Heiney of Laguna Beach, will receive a Fulbright teaching assistantship to the republic of Georgia,...
Broadway Star Mentors Local Students
Broadway composer John Bucchino conducted a master class with promising student vocalists at Laguna Beach High School earlier this month.
LBHS singers each prepared two...
Sharing Their Talents for Student Players
Classical guitarist Eric Henderson performs with Laguna's own Blues Offenders on Saturday, April 21, in Laguna Vibrations, a benefit concert for the instrumental music...
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Thurston’s Students Present the Past
The annual tradition of Thurston’s oral history presentations brought the past to life with funny stories, interesting bits of advice...
Local Student Takes a Gap Year to Brazil
Sam Wellsfry, who will graduate from Laguna Beach High School in June, has been accepted to AFS Brazil and will spend next year returning...
Getting Dirty Over Kidney Research
Members of Love Your Kidneys, a newly established Laguna Beach High School club, ran through four miles of obstacles and sodden terrain during its...
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Local Student Honored
The Rotary Club of Laguna Beach honored E.J. Kramer as the high school's
student of the month for March.
E.J. was accompanied by performing...
Carving Out Time for Best Instruction
To keep students engaged and learning, Thurston Middle School’s principal encourages her staff to share instruction ideas with each other during SMARTbytes, a portion...
El Morro Students Visit Ocean Institute
Forty-two fifth graders from Laguna Beach’s El Morro Elementary enjoyed a marine mammal cruise from Dana Point’s Ocean Institute dock last week.
Two additional groups...
Coffee Break
Arming Kids to Resist Pressure to Drink
By Kate Rogers, Special to the Independent
Brenda Conlan acted as a lightning rod for community angst around “social...
Teen’s Volunteerism Rewarded
Laguna Beach High School junior Alia Manetta received the Violet Richardson Award from the Soroptimist International of the Newport Harbor Area earlier this month.
The...
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Authors to Visit El Morro
Neil Klayman and Barry Chung, author and illustrator of “Boris Ate a Thesaurus”, will visit El Morro School on April...
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Thurston Students Win PTA Competition
Thurston Middle School students, eighth-graders Austin Fickman and Molly McMillen, recently received awards in the PTA Reflections contest in the...