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By Kedric Francis Latitude 33 Bookshop is closing, and it’s all my fault. The store on Ocean Avenue has been part of my regular Laguna...

‘It’s Not History. It’s Evidence’~ Glenn Frey By Gary Stewart Consider the following list of recipients of the esteemed Trustees Award, from the National Academy...

The Waiting Game The stock market sometimes behaves like a teenager learning to drive, switching between hitting the brakes and the gas pedal. A historic...

As I was walking into Vons’s supermarket in north Laguna, a woman named Christine Kelton stopped me and asked my name. When I told...

Re-opening The Town By Michael Ray The virus has disrupted everything. Laguna Beach is closed. All non-essential stores are closed. The restaurants have take-out only. Locals...

Hope Springs Eternal It’s hard to talk about much else these days but the delicious, life-affirming, all-consuming rains that have enveloped us. It washes away...

Do we need the holidays to understand our world and our life? We usually get a healthy dose of new perspectives. This year I return...

By Billy Fried In the last six months, we’ve experienced a significant upgrade in the cultural fabric of Laguna. Starting, of course, with the magnificent...

Don’t Wreck the Wrack Until the 1960s, thick kelp forests grew along the Southern California coast with the largest kelp bed in Orange County just...

Passing Through “Testing. Testing. Testing. Lower Park Avenue is opened again. The Plaza is gone. Calling all library patrons. This bullhorn announcement is for you....

By George, Weiss was right about Community Choice Energy  The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reports that the Orange County Power Authority (OCPA) has been...

Life Coach-Lesson 7 By Mark Crantz Home is where the heart is. And after weeks of being with your loved ones you feel your heart and...

If it strikes you that I’m being facetious about the dire need for strict unicorn leash laws, then you haven’t been paying attention. You...

 By Marion K. Jacobs, Ph.D., Special to the Independent I was among the lucky ones. The fire was coming over Mystic and straight at us...

By Annlia Hill To keep the neighborhood of the Alley Kids informed of past and future events, Edith Hill and Frankie Price produced a newspaper,...