Photos and story by Mitch Ridder A total of 64 men and women who want a job as a Laguna Beach lifeguard tried out last Saturday at Main Beach in choppy seas of 52 degrees. The tryout consists of three physical events; a 1,000-meter swim in under 20 minutes; two run-swim-run sequences of 400 yards [...]
Oil And Troubles The revolutions breaking out throughout much of the Middle East may well be the most significant events of 2011. Their impact remains unsettled and will probably remain so for quite some time. I am reminded of the comment by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, when asked about the impact of the French Revolution [...]
Charles “Chuck” Meredith Boothe, 85, a longtime Laguna Beach resident, passed away at his home in Mission Viejo on Feb. 16, 2011. He was born on Oct. 6, 1925, in Elwood, Utah to Clyde and Lestie Boothe. The Boothe family moved to Hollywood in 1927 and to Laguna Beach in 1928. Chuck graduated from Laguna [...]
By Rita Robinson | LB Indy Councilman Kelly Boyd is on a mission to find the perfect hill for Laguna Beach’s high-speed skateboarders, aka speedboarders, so they won’t need to pack up their decks and get outta Dodge. “It’s a plan, if we can pull it together,” said Boyd about his attempt to assuage residents [...]
By Jennifer Erickson | LB Indy The volume of home sales in Laguna Beach rose by 18 percent in 2010, the second consecutive year of rising sales, but the median home price of $1.15 million was unchanged over 2009, according to figures compiled by local real estate brokers. The number of distressed properties selling also [...]
Prosecutors filed charges this week in a 1978 cold-case stabbing of a Laguna Beach architect.
Monday, Feb. 14 Traffic stop. 1:40 a.m. S. Coast Highway. A 55-year-old Long Beach man was arrested for DUI and held for $2,500 bail. Threats. 11:33 a.m. TOW School. A student’s report that her father had threatened the life of er mother is under investigation. Fraud. 1:42 p.m. 400 block of Los Robles Avenue. More [...]
The suspense over which artist team would be chosen to create a sculpture series for Heisler Park ended with a unanimous vote by the Arts Commission to award the $100,000 project to local artists Naomi and Scott Schoenherr last week. To the couple, however, the suspense won’t truly end until the City Council sanctions their [...]
Winter’s Homestretch! McWeather is starting his seventh year with the Indy and it’s been an honor to be a team member. Rain totals continue to pile up. Last weekend’s downpour put us well above 18 inches for the 2010-11 season, just about double the season normal as of Feb. 22. Lots of drama with this [...]
Conservancy Hosts Canyon Foundation’s Borella The newly named executive director of the Laguna Canyon Foundation, Max Borella, is the featured speaker at the Laguna Canyon Conservancy dinner meeting, Monday, March 7, at Tivoli Terrace. Most recently, Borella designed field-based research programs for undergraduates at Stanford University’s School of Earth Science. Previously, he was a Peace [...]
The Laguna Art Museum fills its galleries with three diverse shows on Saturday, Feb. 26, two of which are filled with works taken from the museum’s permanent collection. Even so, this is not a mere “shopping from the closet” undertaking but an attempt to exhibit works seldom or never seen before. Museum director Bolton Colburn [...]
Local Chef-Owner’s Chop Delivers a Knockout Sunday Night Chef Fights was a bout to remember for our local hometown hero Chef Lindsay Smith-Rosales of Nirvana Grille. Congratulations to Chef Lindsay for taking home the coveted championship on Sunday Night Chef’s Fight in Huntington Beach’s Standard of Excellence showroom and culinary arena. For the uninitiated, Sunday [...]
The categories and the nominees are: best new arts program, Artist Open Studios, Marine Mammal Studios, Musical Theatre University; arts patron of the year, Robert Hayden III, The James Irvine Foundation, and Wells Fargo Bank; outstanding arts collaboration, Festival of Arts and Orange County school’s Junior Art Exhibit, Laguna College of Art & Design and [...]
Tuesday, March 1 City Council, 6 p.m., Council Chambers Wednesday, March 2 Housing and Human Services Committee, Community Center. Thursday, March 3 HIV Committee, Community Center.
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
