Sarah Ross
Sarah Ross, Art-A-Fair's vice president of marketing, recently passed away unexpectedly as she and her husband and a fellow photographer were returning from a...
Testing Offers Peace of Mind
The Laguna Beach Community Clinic is participating in National HIV Testing Day by offering free anonymous HIV tests to all Saturday, June 30, 8:30...
Keeping Time
With Heisler Park’s amphitheater as their setting, Scott and Naomi Schoenherr last week assembled their public art installation, “Time Connected.” Taking as its theme...
Registration Opens for Bowling Tourney
The Pacific Marina Mammal Center’s “Fish Bowl” Bowling Tournament at Irvine Lanes takes place Sunday, July 22 from 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Team costs...
Candidate Raises Funds
Mayor pro tem Verna Rollinger raised over $9,000 at a fundraiser at the home of Debbie Lewis to support her reelection to the Laguna...
Business Moves: Local Firm Celebrates Longevity
JKR and Co. Inc., a full service financial brokerage firm, celebrates its 30th year of doing business in Laguna Beach.
JKR has been in the...
Who’s Kidding Who?
Editor,
The Laguna Beach City Council is generations out of touch with much of new Laguna. Bruce Hopping may be in his early 90s but...
Gratitude for Dedication of City Workers
Editor,
Last week the City of Laguna had to replace a water main on Pala Way in Laguna. The work took about three weeks and...
Questioning Public Employees’ Benefits
Editor,
Go Mike Rybah! His letter (“A Critic of Profligate Spending at City Hall,” Letters, June 22) regarding our city using pension workers is accurate.
Everyone...
Village Matter: On the Edge
“I’m on the edge, the edge, the edge…of glory,” Bronwyn shouted as we rumbled through southern California looking for the best landscaping and maintenance...
Honing in on the Horizon
By Justin Swanson, Special to the Independent
Laguna Beach High School’s graduating class of 2012 reveled in their commencement where some 239 students met the...
Mothering Heights: Parental Unplugging
The last few weeks of school are like the final days of pregnancy. You’re so busy getting ready for it that by the time...
Taking Stock
On The Bargain Counter
The stock market managed to work itself back into an uptrend with volume rising on consecutive up days. No sooner had...
Zane Cornwell earns Boy Scouts’ Highest Rank
Zane Cornwell of Boy Scout Troop 35 in Laguna Beach earned scouting’s highest rank of Eagle Scout on June 10. He is the son...
Scouts Newly Fledged
Jeff White, then a fifth-grade transplant from Boston, met Tim Peterson at a meeting to recruit new scouts. Seven years later and after a...