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The Wild Blue Yonder Off we go with all three major stock averages at or near record high levels. On some days, they form a trifecta with all three setting records. Their content differs. The popular Dow Industrial Average reflects changes in thirty selected blue chips, the...

Sometimes the Answer is ‘No’ Last week, the Planning Commission made “No” very clear to the Coast Inn applicants who sought a roof deck and other large additions in the context of a historic restoration to the 1930s hotel. This project sells itself as a historical restoration of...

By Sharael Kolberg, Special to the Independent   Brother-sister scouts from Laguna Beach teamed up to start a sewing program for a youth shelter as part of their Eagle Scout and Girl Scout Silver Award service projects this past summer. Joseph and Ani Hovanesian received...

Local Laguna sculptor Jon Seeman and his wife, author Lorraine Passero, will be guest speakers at the Laguna Beach Business Club on Thursday, Oct. 19. Club meetings begin with a buffet breakfast and networking at the Hotel Laguna, 425 S. Coast Highway. Their topic will ...

Laguna Beach residents Suzanne and James Mellor are to be celebrated as outstanding philanthropists on Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ National Philanthropy Day luncheon. “Not only do they donate financially, but they volunteer their time and...

Dale the Whale I learned a lot of stuff from the Indy’s “High Seas Adventure Awakens Ocean Awareness.” I did not know that the ocean is responsible for my every other breath. It explains why I always feel light headed. And to think I fell hook, line and sinker on my doctor’s...

Read the Personals PRINCESS needed – Be my beautiful date/dancer for the Harvest Moon Ball.  You are petite, pretty and dance well. Must be under 80, dressy, able to hold your booze. Hair, teeth a must. #PrinceCharm   EX-HUSBAND yard sale – Everything MUST go. Collection of...

A welcome swell with waves of as much as 10 feet provided the engine for the 54th running of the annual Brooks Street Surfing Classic, which took place Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8. Travis Booth, 16, won the pro/am division, the youngest participant to take the contest’s top...

Breaking Records Another day, another record. Led by the broad S&P 500 Stock Index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite Average are scoring record highs. These broad concurrent moves are without precedent and demonstrate buying strength throughout...

There’s Gold in that Green At this very moment, while you are reading this, scores of people all over California are sitting in living rooms, plotting ways to get rich on the next gold rush. Weed. The new dot com. It will rival alcohol in size and scope, because Californians,...

Four-time skim boarding world champion and Laguna Beach local Sam Stinnett will again host The SeaDog Skim Challenge at Aliso Beach at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7. All entry fees for the one-day contest benefit the Pacific Marine Mammal Center. The contest is open to amateur and...

Playhouse’s New Leader is Familiar With the Job Laguna Playhouse board members elected Paul Singarella to chair the 97-year-old organization, succeeding Joe Hanauer, who has filled the post for six years. Singarella has been vice-chair for two years and co-chair for the past two,...

Deadringers, a new Halloween escape experience designed by the creators of The Escape Bus, comes to Laguna Beach through Tuesday, Oct. 31. The game offers lighting effects, Dolby 7.1 surround sound, mechanical puzzles and magnetic compartments. Deadringers was inspired by the...

1931- 2017 Carlene Joanne Clark Challis was born July 26, 1931, in Los Angeles, to Ruth Marguerite Switzer Clark and Harold Douglas Clark, a cabinet maker and carpenter originally from Canada. The family lived on Peck Road in El Monte during the Great Depression. Her elder...

May 9, 1928-Sept. 19, 2017 Beverly Ann Duke Tyler died in her Laguna Beach home Sept. 19. She spent the final weeks of her life in the company of friends and family, and her passing was peaceful and mercifully brief. She was born Beverly Ann Bustetter on May 9, 1928, in Los...