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Life Coach-Lesson 11 By Mark Crantz The two largest purchases recorded during the pandemic are guns and toilet paper. So as your life coach, be careful...

Three Twenty-Something Angels at the Community Garden Park “Can we help?” asked one of the three young adults walking by the Community Garden Park in...

By Mark D. Crantz Laguna Beach.  Another perfect day in Paradise, but there’s drug smuggling.  Oh no!  Recently, 1,200 lbs. of marijuana was seized in...

Summer As it Should Be Howdy, weather fans, hope you have enjoyed the first third of summer 2011. This time around there’s been plenty to...

Remember When You Took Time To... ...use your imagination to see images formed by the puffy clouds that floated by on a lazy summer's day? How...

Electric Bikes Rule(s) “Low rider knows every street, yeah Low rider is the one to meet, yeah Low rider don't use no gas now Low rider don't drive...

Tree Removal, Replanting Done for Public Safety The City takes great pride in maintaining its urban forest and appreciates the benefits of trees (there are...

Iowa? New Hampshire? Why Not Laguna Beach? Every four years, we in this part of the country are gripped by a sense of powerlessness and...

Pass the Mayo I nearly gagged while reading the letter to the editor’s “Back to School Food.” This letter said, “There are 31 million school...

The Senior Scam I never realized the extent and ease with which people prey on the elderly until a recent trip to celebrate my dad’s...

A Curmudgeon Looks at Thanksgiving I have not let my iconoclastic, cranky side out for a walk for some time. The holiday season seems like...

Art and Conversation: Can We Talk? By Jean Hastings Ardell The comment “The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,”...

  Greek philosopher Plato said of his Athens community: “This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.”  If true, what...

It’s that time of year again, when we look back and wonder, “What happened?” On my radio show last week, a guest surprised me...

Taking Stock Since we are currently invited daily to swim in a cesspool of political negativity, let's make a decision to take a deep breath...