Town Crier

 Savoring Laguna   My experiences lately have brought home how privileged I feel to be a part of life in Laguna.     It started with an invitation...

Still Number One “Don’t worry, my government will pay for the damage.” The Defense Department always included this essential phrase in its foreign language phrase...

Temporary Shelter: A Home on Wheels    Each time I’ve attempted to own a home, I’ve lost it by a natural disaster or relational tsunami. Cases...

Summer Pageantry I’ll admit it here. I’m a pageant mom. Not the “Toddlers and Tiaras” kind, thankfully, but a Pageant of the Masters pageant mom. ...

  Vacationing in Laguna Beach with her family from Fredericksburg, Va., Catherine Squilliante delighted a surprised crowd as she out maneuvered more experienced riders in...

 History hunters need now and then photo locations   Arcadia Publishing developed a nitch exploiting local history with its “Images of America” paperbacks about local towns,...

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...

Laguna Beach residents will once again converge on the El Morro Elementary School field for the 10th annual Relay for Life fundraiser on Aug....

Mayumi Kawashima and Darius Kharabi   Mayumi Kawashima and Darius Kharabi of Laguna Beach are to be married July 30, 2011, by Pastor Dr. Mark Brewer...

Dog Days of Laguna  By Mark D. Crantz   I love Laguna because Laguna loves dogs. Dogs are special.  Spelled backward its God.  Makes you wonder about...

Mother Knows Best By Randy Kraft   I grew up in New York and spent most of my Saturday afternoons at the Metropolitan Museum or at elegant...

Editor,   How refreshing to read the comments of Chris Keller, president of the City's Chamber of Commerce, in which he welcomed the new high profile...

Editor, News travels fast in this new wired world. By the time the sun rose over the Pacific, the news of the betrayal by Mission...

 Editor, A very high five to Mission Hospital for purchasing the vacant land inland of their campus. Mission Hospital has done this (south) Lagunan and every citizen...

Editor: Back in the 1950s when a police officer was shot and lay dying, we had no hospital to rush him to. The incident helped...