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Trees Receive Reprieve

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Despite an earlier decision to uproot them, the school board unanimously voted to leave intact 28 newly planted eucalyptus trees on a slope surrounding...

Fire Fears Smother Hopes for Dream Home

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Jae "Randy" Song paid $685,000 for a bucolic 12-acre lot in Canyon Acres at a bank auction in 2010. Assurances from the previous owner...

Schools Budget Grows by 7%

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With a 4 percent across-the-board employee pay raise scheduled, the Laguna Beach Unified School District board approved a $52.9 million budget for the coming...

Pageant Pursues Happiness Across Every Era

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By Torie Hamilton, Special to the Independent “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by...

And the Winners Are….

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The Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation gave away more than $360,000 in the form of 126 scholarships to 115 students from the Class...

Thrilling Final Wows Big Crowd at 60th Open

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  Ideal conditions brought out larger than expected crowds to Main Beach last Sunday, June 7, for the 60th Laguna Men’s Open, to watch number...

Council Cracks Down on Absentees

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To signal its intolerance for skipped meetings by members of city boards, the City Council amended its attendance policy and established that four absences...

Merchants Oppose Closing Forest Avenue to Cars

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Many downtown merchants left their shops this week to protest at City Hall, expressing their dismay with the proposed 13-day trial closure of a...

LBHS Scholarships Hit Record Amount

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Four days before tonight’s scholarship awards convocation at Laguna Beach High School, Lynn Gregory was in crunch-time, “buried” under phone calls, getting out last-minute...

Poisoned Sea Lions Return to the Wild

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With an entourage of onlookers lining the sand, 14 of 17 sea lions injured by chlorine mysteriously dumped into a marine wildlife rehabilitation facility...

Artist’s Death Attributed to Natural Causes

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  Well-regarded Laguna Beach artist Terry Thornsley died of natural causes, supervising Deputy Coroner Mitchell Sigal said Monday. An autopsy was conducted Thursday, May 28, on...

Recycling Gets Serious

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Residents and businesses that routinely toss the wrong kind of garbage into their green waste and recycle bins may now be fined for their...

Summer Trolleys Track Simpler Routes

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Summer trolleys will roll along the same coastal route as the off-season weekend trolleys that began in March, running north to south along Coast...

Fans Return to Applaud Dressler

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After 25 years of building an acclaimed student drama program at Laguna Beach Unified School District, Mark Dressler is expected to experience another outstanding...

Media Owner Gives Employees a Parting Gift

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Ownership of the Laguna Beach Independent newspaper, Laguna Beach Magazine and other publications of Firebrand Media will soon shift to 10 of its employees. Owner...