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By the Light of the Moon  Vice is always in the active, virtue often in the passive.  ~ Frances Willard, 1876 When creating on my computer, I keep...

“Fare thee well, fare thee well  I love you more than words can tell  Listen to the river sing sweet songs  To rock my soul.       ...

  By Annlia Hill In the 1920s, Coast Highway was only a two-lane oiled road. It didn’t go north past Emerald Bay. To get to Newport...

Laguna Ambassadors A retired Los Angeles police officer was parked in Laguna’s prettiest parking lot—it’s a nook surrounded with flowers, vines, an oak and a...

Saint Marina Dateline: Amaliapolis, Greece.  Amaliapolis is a village within the Pagasetic Gulf on the east coast of Greece. The Gulf is giant, roughly round and...

By Mayor Bob Whalen Next week, we are introducing a game-changing program for our community called Be Well OC, which will provide mobile mental health...

‘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...

AYSO Soccer in Laguna Beach  The history of our town is like a patchwork quilt, each stitched piece a story. As new pieces are added,...

The Three Sisters By Carly Sciacca It might be surprising to learn that summer is actually one of the most challenging growing seasons in coastal Southern...

Rehabbing Pinnipeds at Laguna’s Pacific Marine Mammal Center   “The staff’s devotion to caring for the seals, sea lions and elephant seals was extraordinary,” exclaimed our...

A Taste of the English Cotswolds at Virginia Park Drive By Hunter Fuentes and Jon Stordahl Laguna Beach is filled with a remarkable variety of housing styles. On...

Midway Memories The Beautiful Wife and I are in bucolic Midway, Utah, just over the hill from the ski mecca of Park City, where everything...

By Annlia Hill Late night and early morning low clouds and fog along the coast, aka May Gray and June Gloom. It has been this...

It’s summertime, and everyone’s here. Even a little cat named Baby, who made the trip not once but twice, from inland OC to the...

Real Planning or Just Opinions? Our Laguna Beach Planning Commission is not the leader in city planning it is meant to be. The presentations and...