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Blake T. Franklin was born September 28, 1942, in San Mateo, Calif., to parents Harvey James and Marie Agnes Franklin. He attended Menlo-Atherton High School. Blake...

The local Home Instead Senior Care office is encouraging family caregivers to dig into the family recipe box to find a favorite recipe to...

Editor, About the upcoming city council elections… the candidate who comes up with a solution for the overgrown trees, will have my vote. Tall trees have...

Garden Park Spring Fling and Potluck Next Saturday South Laguna Community Garden Park will host its 15th Annual Spring Fling Concert and Potluck on Saturday,...

Laguna. Another perfect day in Paradise, but then there is the “December to Remember Sales Event” commercial jingle. Oh, no! Unless you’re clinically dead or Ted Williams, there is no way you could avoid seeing these Lexus TV commercials. In case you are Ted Williams and you don’t get around much, let me describe them. Cut to a homey Christmas living room where the wife opens a beautiful music box that plays the Lexus jingle. Several bars into the music, she thinks what a crappy gift and I should have left him in June. Suddenly it dawns on her that the tune signals there’s a brand new Lexus in the driveway.

With the goal of “uniting the Laguna beach community and inspire hope, optimism and action toward a flourishing future,” Laguna Beach’s first ever Tedx...

Editor, We of the Saddleback Master Chorale would sincerely like to thank Ruth Yunker, who attended our concert at St. Catherine’s school chapel last August,...

Editor, My wife and I have lived in Laguna Beach for over 50 years and hope to live here longer. One of the advantages of...

Instead of flowers and chocolates that soon wither or are consumed, why not give a Valentine’s gift that keeps on giving? This Valentine’s Day,...

Laguna Hills’ Saddleback Memorial Medical Center was selected by Sunnyvale-based Intuitive Surgical, a maker of robotic surgical systems, as the first robotic training center...

Editor, (The letter was also sent to Shelter Bay Retail Management) I am writing to you to express concerns regarding the proposed lease to Chase Bank...

Editor, Thank you so much for publishing Susan Velasquez’s column “Opportunity Knocks” on the School’s page of the LB Independent, Nov. 16. It was the perfect...

There was a lively discussion that was in full swing by the time I got my coffee and sat down with some friends. The...

Editor,   It is interesting that the Laguna Beach Patriots Day Parade Association has taken note that many of our troops are beginning to return from...

Crime statistics: As any good detective (or readers/writers of who-done-it literature) can tell you, there are no coincidences. So, "coincidentally" with the publication of Michele Monda's latest column, voila! The annual...