The Rotary Club in May honored two Laguna Beach High School athletes, both bound for the Ivy League. Water polo player Lexi Del Toro, offensive player of the year, is a four-year scholar athlete on the Superintendent’s Honor Roll. She will attend Harvard University in the fall. Robert Clemons, a four-year varsity football starter and scholar [...]
Artwork by several Top of the World Elementary students was selected for display at the Festival of Arts’ Junior Art Exhibit this summer. This year’s TOW students receiving the honor: Sol Mcdermott, Arthur Proctor, Nicole Leuschen, Owen Blum, Estella McIntee, Hannah Williams, Chase Williams, Julie van der Baan and Katherine Storke. In total, about 300 [...]
Laguna Beach’s Schoolpower Student Directory achieved a record in advertising support, which propelled the popular publication past its $70,000 fundraising goal at a business appreciation party last month. Directory Chair Melissa Cavanaugh gave recognition to the town’s generous parents and supportive business community. The group that supports local schools is still accepting advertising for “the [...]
Started in 1955 by the Laguna Beach Recreation Department and billed as the world’s longest running surfing contest, the Brooks Street Surfing Classic finally turned 50 last weekend after a two-year break due to poor surf conditions. “We had a great swell all weekend,” said Brandy Faber, who took over as lead organizer of the [...]
Teams from Laguna Beach Little League’s majors and AAA divisions won the city’s first ever Tournament of Champions titles last Sunday. In the majors division at Chapparosa Park in Laguna Niguel, Laguna VFW cruised through their side of the bracket to reach the finals, where they edged Laguna Niguel 4-3 in extra innings for the [...]
All-Sports Awards Drake Martinez and Haley Putnam were selected as athletes of the year at the seventh annual LBHS Athletic Booster’s Awards held last week. Martinez set 20 different play, game, season and career marks in football as the most prolific runner and scorer in the sport’s 78 year history at the school. Martinez was [...]
Emerald Bay resident Harold Noriega won a gold medal for the second-year in a row at the USA Open Indoor Volleyball Championships held last month in Louisville, Ky. Team USA-RBC Life will go on to represent the U.S. in the World Master’s Games in Torino, Italy, starting Aug. 7.
Crescent Bay Advisors made a historic run through the Tournament of Champions, winning four games and claiming the 2013 minor division championship by beating the Rancho Niguel Tigers 7-0 on Sunday, June 9. The VFW majors team also won, the first two TOC championships in Laguna Beach Little League history. For CBA, Booker Frith pitched [...]
After eight years as architect of Laguna Beach schools’ technology infrastructure, Victor Guthrie is off to a far-away land for something not so different. With hotter climes, a metropolitan culture and an attractive contract to lure him, Guthrie, 37, said he accepted a position as technology director for a private international school in Abu Dhabi, [...]
Laguna Beach High School alum Breanna Hite (’09) received her commission as an ensign in the U.S. Coast Guard on May 22 after graduating with honors from the New London, Conn., academy with a bachelor of science degree in marine and environmental sciences. Vice President Joe Biden addressed the 227 cadets, which included a record [...]
Schoolpower’s Endowment Board delivered checks totaling $170,174 to Laguna Beach’s school board last week, including $70,174 for teacher grants next fall, and $50,000 each for a 10-year foreign language grant and the first installment of a three-year pledge for a strings program. Endowment President Bill Moore called this year’s payout “spectacular.” A whopping “We are [...]
All students who participated in Laguna Beach High School’s instrumental music program benefited from the Festival of Arts Foundation’s $5,000 grant. This year’s donation provided instruments to the students who needed them, purchased sheet music and underwrote recording the jazz band’s 2013 CD. Support insures the continued improvement of music instruction and student opportunities for [...]
Laguna Canyon Foundation presents a summer youth camp for kids age 6-13, and tot camp (with parents) age three to five. The older group will engage in science fun, nature exploration and survival skills. The younger group will explore nature and learn about the wonders of the natural environment through all five senses. They too will [...]
Laguna Beach Little League held its end-of-season awards, awarding the regular season league winning championship to team VFW, recipient of this year’s Jack Norworth Trophy. The Rhoads Martin Trophy winner, awarded annually to the league’s outstanding volunteers, went to Steve and Jennifer Sweet. The award is named after a former league president. The winners of [...]
Boys Golf Awards Coached Scott Finn recently released the awards earned by Laguna’s boys golf squad, which finished third this season in Orange Coast League play. Three players earned second team all-OCL honors: Tyler Metez, Spencer Donavan, and Mitchell Wills. The team awards were as follows: Varsity Golf: Team captain, Mitchell Wills; most valuable golfer, [...]
Ill Prepared Hiker Rescued from Hillside
A sheriff’s helicopter was used to extract a hiker who suffered an anxiety attack and was unable to move from a steep trail in Laguna Beach’s open space about 6 p.m. Sunday, June 9, police said. Lifeguards in an all-terrain vehicle coordinated the extraction from thick brush and a steep slope between Alta Laguna Park [...]
