Conserving a Chapter of County History
Construction workers scurried this week to beat the rain and Saturday's long-anticipated dedication of the newest and possibly most unusual branch in the county's library system. Full Story
City OKs Cell Tower Plan
Publicly owned land including parks can serve as potential sites for 10 additional cell phone towers in town, the City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday. The Council gave its consent following a deep discussion about possible pitfalls and benefits of allowing a proliferation of towers, though they avoided discussing the probable improvement in customer service. Full Story
Inspired by Mother's Day, Childless Couple Chart a New Direction
Cynthia McKinzie emigrated from the Philippines to the United States when she was 15. She never looked back and had no desire to live there again. To any soul with the audacity to suggest it, particularly her husband or brother, she would recite her mantra: "I'm never going back. Don't ask me again." After all, her whole family had fledtheir homeland's poverty. Full Story
Council Spurns Private Talks With Athens
The length of City Council agenda bills can be deceiving. A 200-page monster can whimper away, dismissed by a 30-second unanimous vote. Or a meeklooking half-pager, like item No. 18 on Tuesday night's agenda, on who to appoint to a subcommittee to keep tabs on a developer, ends up eliciting an onslaught of points, cross-points, politics and historical references. Full Story
Churches Enlist for Easter Mission: Filling Baskets With School Supplies
Laguna Presbyterian Church is raising funds this Sunday and the following to fillEaster baskets for Marines' children. This year, San Clemente Military Family Outreach has requested that the church stock baskets with much needed supplies for the children of enlisted Marines attending San Onofre's base school. Full Story
Adding trees at ends of beachfront streets would be a bad idea
Editor: This letter was sent to Al Trevino and the Chamber of Commerce's BeautificationCommittee. It is in response to your article [Feb 15] about beautifying the ends of some of our streets. It is good that you are trying to improve the beauty of Laguna Beach. Thank you for this effort. Full Story
West Nile Virus has been found in birds in Laguna Beach
Editor: I am writing as a concerned citizen about the serious problem we have in Laguna Beach about feeding wild birds in Laguna Beach. I am calling for an amendment to Municipal Code 6.22.070 (Prohibiting of feeding certain wildlife) to include the prohibition of feeding wild birds. Full Story
A plea to have the city not make the same mistake again
Ed. Note: This letter was sent to members of the Laguna Beach Planning Commission About two years ago my husband and I joined our neighbors in a protracted battle to stop the massive development at the corner of Alta Loma and Ceanothus that came to be known as the Ceanothus Development. Full Story
Mind-boggled at New York Times ignorance
Editor: The New York Times is apparently not aware that Dwight Eisenhower carried southern states including four former Confederate states. Full Story
A lesson unlearned?
Editor: There's an important difference between the Mexican illegals who pour into the USA, crowd our prisons, ER rooms and generally wreak havoc and the Vietnamese who have fledhere for fear of their very lives. Any "deal" made between our State Dept. Full Story
Romp Clipped From Ike Era Headlines
Playhouse review
A laugh riot about the '50s? Ike and Dick, nuclear arms race, and that ever-popular senator, Joseph McCarthy? And his daughter? A barrel of laughs? For playwright Michael Holliger it all seems to make sense, with a spunky cast led by a pair of snappy, sexy, sassy cops snarling their way to immortality. Full Story
A Fourth Generation Finds Art Still Golden
Trailblazing the way, creating a local legacy of art and adventure, Clara Mason, arrived by stagecoach in the 1890s to paint Laguna's landscapes. Her vision of artistry remains alive and well in the life and works of Jon Seeman, a fourth-generation Laguna Beach artist of her lineage. Full Story
Vivid Characters Infuse 'Earnest'
Theater review
The beauty of this production of Oscar Wilde's masterful comedy is the individuality and well thought out characterizations that not only do not stand in the way of the brash aphorisms but actually support their comic effect. Wilde, thank goodness, managed to finish this work barely before the beginning of his disastrous fall from grace. Full Story
Global Warnings,' Tells a Cautionary Tale
Endangered Planet gallery is exhibiting sculptures based on global issues, featuring artist Norman Deesing's "Global Warnings." Deesing's sculptures are created to visualize and memorialize important world events. They are based on a human figure, used as a universal symbol. Full Story
Tributes to a Constellation of Local Artists
The Laguna Beach Alliance for the Arts will honor Tony Award-winning dancer and choreographer Donald McKayle at the second annual Art Star Awards on March 19 at Seven- Degrees. Full Story
Trio of CIF Hopefuls All Ousted
LBHS CIF Update
Girls Water Polo Breakers Let Dos Pueblos Escape in Semi-Finals For most of the match on a cold Wednesday night in Irvine, Laguna looked like the dominant team getting set for a return trip to the CIF Southern Section Division II finals. Full Story
Laguna Students Singled Out as Leaders
Laurielle Hofer and Jason House of Laguna Beach High School are among 32 Orange County high school students who will compete for $220,000 in scholarship funds from the The Irvine Company. Full Story
Art Students Win Plotkin Awards
On Feb. 10, the Peter and Masha Plotkin Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of fivescholarships to Laguna College of Art & Design students. Recipients of the $500 scholarships were juniors Shane Daley, Jason Kowalski and Erin Metzdorf, along with sophomores Hannah Harris and Jared Linge. Full Story
Society's Pressure Cooking Kids
An epidemic of depression among young people was the focus of a parent-education talk last week by Madeline Levine, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist from the Bay Area and author of "The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. Full Story
Breakers Bury Alumni
About 10 alumni players, ranging from Chuck Harrell '65 to Noah Brewster '05, returned to the LBHS diamond to take on the current LBHS varsity baseball team in the annual alumni game. Here, Chris Stansbury, LBHS '03, hits a series with brother Gabe, LBHS '09, catching. The final score was 7 to 1. Full Story
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