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Orange County’s top philanthropists were called out at the 32nd Annual National Philanthropy Day Orange County Awards Luncheon recently. Among the honorees were Laguna Beach...

April 4, 1954 – Dec. 15, 2017 Steven Paul Duncan passed away Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, at the age of 63, surrounded by his entire...

Schemeboat It was Wednesday 10 a.m. And once again, we were meeting in the boiler room of the Susi Q Center. Our existence has been...

Read the Personals     NEW YEAR’S EVE BUS – For $25 per person let our buses drive you door-to-door to five dive bars where there’s no...

The city’s emergency operations coordinator, Jordan Villwock, was elected by his peers to chair the Orange County Emergency Management Organization in 2018. The entity of...

It Was A Very Good Year It was a very good year for stocks. With the closing bell coming on Friday, the broad S&P 500...

Editor, For a city with the strictest sign code, we sure do love electronic message boards! These police department signs are meant to warn drivers...

A Year Beyond Our Imagining   “And these are the good days in life Building castles made of sand. Always knowing that the tide gonna come To take them...

Fire Risk Eclipses All City Priorities In the aftermath of what may have been California’s worst fire season, I have decided what I want most...

A Wake-up Call If this year has taught anything, it is that relying on external circumstances to provide safety and security is a fool's journey. Since...

Catalina Raine Kollock was born with tremendous love at home on Nov. 14, 2017. On the morning of Dec. 16, 2017, she passed peacefully...

Jan. 27, 1994 – Dec. 13, 2017 Ben Rogers passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Dec. 13. Ben was the light of all...

Holidays and Mixed Emotions   A couple of things make me uncomfortable about December. First, it gets dark way too early, and second, it is a...

The student-run club Crushing Hunger collected 500 pounds of food for the Laguna Food Pantry this past Saturday by asking Ralph’s shoppers to consider...

Bluff I was on the edge while reading Indy’s, “Planners Consider Changes to Beach Bluff Development.” 99% of beach strollers urged the Pet Peeves columnist...