Columns

By Billy Fried   Admit it. Virus notwithstanding, Laguna has never looked so good. Our classic summer weather of sun mixed with cool marine layer has...

By Paul Freeman Editor's Note: Freeman released a somewhat lengthier version of what runs below this past Monday. On Wednesday, the city announced it was...

Knockout punch, or a great comeback? By Jeffrey Redeker Quarantine, work-from-home, shelter-in-place, lockdown and so many other phrases we hear daily are encapsulated by the closing...

Shutting Down Residents’ Voices There are many ways to fight opposition to your point of view. At the July 23 City Council meeting, we saw...

Despite the many horrors confronting us on the regu­lar, Laguna continues to inoculate us from despair with her bounty of delights. November once again...

Life Coach-Lesson 10 By Mark Crantz You’ve been cooped up for weeks on end. You find yourself waiting at the mailbox for your ancestry.com DNA test...

Dear Susi Q, I'm 53, currently an English teacher, and likely to retire in the next couple of years. It's always been a dream of...

By Billy Fried By the time you read this, there may be as many as 1,000 comments on a “Laguna Locals” Facebook group post by...

By Mia Davidson and Jan Sattler Numerous sea shells, naturally deposited by the tides, can be found along the shore of Laguna Beach. Shells are...

“We are at the extremities now. At the end of this tunnel of darkness, however, there is invariably a light, which we already divine,...

By Johanna Felder Michael Ray’s column last week is another attack on Village Laguna. As president of our nearly 50-year-old organization I must respond. These attacks...

By Billy Fried One of the people who has marked our place in history has left us. He’s up there in the pantheon of legendary...

A Dana Point Future for Laguna? I wonder if only Dana Point had more citizen involvement would we be seeing those new huge structures in...

For the past two months, we started to experience daytime negative tides, a seasonal phenomenon where the tide becomes low enough to allow tidepool...

By Paul Freeman Editor’s Note: Freeman is a former paid consultant for companies managed by Mohammad Honarkar. He has no pending claims against his former...