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Festival of Arts Renovation Moves Ahead

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After a one year postponement due to predicted heavy rain fall last winter, demolition is now underway behind the façade of the Festival of Arts.

Vickers Keeps Up the Pace

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School board incumbent Jan Vickers says she has missed only two board meetings in the 26 years she’s served in elected office, helping govern the four-campus Laguna Beach school district.

Forum Reveals Where Council Candidates Differ

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Voters could discern clear differences between the local candidates at a recent forum, beginning with starting question to outline their top priorities if elected.

Rallies Tackle Topics Most Prefer to Avoid

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Sunny Laguna Beach provided a temporary home for two worthy causes this past Saturday.

Sea Lion Pups Make a Comeback

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While the increase in the pup population is slight – 9 percent – it’s positive data after a severe downturn of births by nearly 50 percent in four of the last five years, according to National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency experts.

Mayor Fends Off Personal Attacks

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By Andrea Adelson and Jean Ardell | LB Indy  Candidate Judie Mancuso and four others accused Mayor Steve Dicterow of a lack of transparency over...

Overnight Camping Will Continue at The Ranch

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All of the tents and sleeping bags are stowed away for the duration of the year, but the historic Scout Camp will reopen when nights warm up in 2017 to nonprofit organizations serving underprivileged children. Once used by the Girl Scouts and the YMCA, the decades-old site nestled in a eucalyptus grove beyond the golf course at The Ranch at Laguna Beach is bonding kids and nature once again.

Vintage Lifeguard Unit Hits the Streets

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It made its debut at the recent Rotary Club annual Classic Car Show. The completely restored 1974 Jeep CJ5 goes on public display again at the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at El Morro Elementary on Saturday, Oct. 15. And next week, former Laguna Beach lifeguards plan to donate their labor of love as a gift to the city.

Water District Tackles Park’s Sewer Gas

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Water district workers this week installed odor-trapping backflow devices at the connections of its sewer main with Laguna Terrace Park, the Laguna Beach mobile home park where a growing group of residents say sewer odors and hydrogen sulfide gases infiltrate their mobile homes and make some sick.

Finding a Home for Art in Churches

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Artists and churches in Laguna Beach both strive to find an audience. Some have been collaborating to their mutual benefit. Others are hoping to.

Marijuana Measure in a Dead Heat

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Laguna Beach voters are evenly divided about a measure that would repeal a local ban on medicinal marijuana dispensaries on the November ballot, according to a voter poll obtained by the Indy.

School Candidates Field Queries from A to Z

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With less than a month before the November election, three candidates vying for two spots on the Laguna Beach Unified School District board answered questions posed by members of the audience last Thursday

Pairing of ‘Billy & Ray’ Proves a Hit

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The Laguna Playhouse takes theater goers behind the scenes during the making of the film classic "Double Indemnity" in a play about its writers, Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.

Marijuana Dispensary Measure Attracts Big Donors

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A committee in support of medical marijuana dispensary Measure KK on the Nov. 8 ballot in Laguna Beach received a $10,000 contribution from San Fernando Valley mortgage broker Ron Fattal, financial disclosure filings and state records show.

School Chief Disavows Political Ad

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Barely four months into his new job, Laguna Beach school district Superintendent Jason Viloria found himself unintentionally embroiled in a political controversy over complaints about a political advertisement that some say implied he endorsed school board candidate Howard Hills.