Borrowing from Seattle’s Traffic Tool Kit
Editor,
Here is more out-of-the-box thinking to solve the parking and traffic problem in Laguna Beach. Call your wheels with your Smartphone app. Brought to...
One Flight Too Many
Editor,
This is your pilot speaking. If you look out to your left, you can see we are now passing over the beautiful city of...
Bravo, LBHS Drama Students
Editor,
I want to say thank you for an excellent show in the play “Hello Dolly.”
The music, dancing, acting, costumes, sets were comparable to a...
The Plant Man: A Parent’s Lament
“And go 'round and 'round and 'round in the circle game.” –Joni Mitchell
Change and transition are part of life. Family and friends become ill,...
Taking Stock
Stocks are alternating up and down days, creating a chart pattern that looks like an electrocardiogram. The market’s uptrend remains intact but under some...
Green Light: Partnering for Preservation
Preserving the California coast and its historic cottages is a big job. Often it requires the partnering of citizen activists and their groups, the...
Kindling Community in Dark Corners
By Robin Pierson, Special to the Independent
After spending more than 20 hours in the air, a group of local travellers dropped down in central...
Eye on Nature: Lights Out, Stars (and Moon) On
By Ellen Girardeau Kempler
If you’re a stargazer, you already know the darkest places are best for viewing the night sky. In Laguna, this usually...
Community Datebook 4/5/13
Ringing Up Receipts for Schools
Whole Foods Market at 283 Broadway St. on Thursday, April 11 will donate five percent of all sales to SchoolPower...
Green Thumb Alerts
Crimes Against Horticulture
Landscape architect, writer and speaker Billy Goodnick will speak at the upcoming meeting of the Laguna Beach Garden Club, 9:30 a.m., Friday,...
Benefits 4/5/13
Kudos for Employing the Disabled
Laguna Beach’s Montage resort was honored with a “Spotlight Award by the Regional Center of Orange County, which coordinates services...
Wisdom Workout – APB: Norman is Still Missing
Norman, the mascot for the Penguin Café, was abducted. There is a $500 reward posted for his return. No questions asked.
Norman has been standing...
Dave Gibbs
July 14, 1938 – March 27, 2013
David Rodney Gibbs lost his battle with cancer on March 27.
Gibbs was an old- school “Lagunan” who left...