Updated: Adventurous Artist Cheryl Ekstrom Dies
One of Laguna Beach’s most original creative forces, artist Cheryl Ekstrom, died Saturday, June 13, at UC Irvine Medical Center due to complications from...
His Giant Canvases Flap From Street Corners
He paints in oil, watercolor and acrylic paints, makes photographs and works in metal. Sometimes he goes multi-media, creating abstracts based on his fertile...
Sculptor Cheryl Ekstrom Dies
Longtime Laguna Beach artist and sculptor Cheryl Ekstrom died
unexpectedly last weekend.
Friends say she was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year. In April, Ekstrom...
Trees Receive Reprieve
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
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%
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
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….
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Residents and businesses that routinely toss the wrong kind of garbage into their green waste and recycle bins may now be fined for their...