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. More...
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 the... More...
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 agai... More...
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 ons... More...
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 ... More...
State Sen. Tom Harman has asked Caltrans to postpone selling for 90 days the site of Laguna Beach's day labor center. Harman, a Huntington Beach Republican, represents the 35th District encompassing coastal cities that include Laguna Beach. His website lists top priorities as lower taxes, elimina... More...
Residents of the hillside Ceanothus neighborhood in South Laguna are challenging owner Brian Mashian's proposed request for a road extension in order to build a house, scheduled for consideration Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. by the city's Planning Commission. More...
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. More...
The Soroptimist International of Laguna Beach has made a $20,000 capital campaign pledge to help build the new Susi Q Senior Center and the lower plaza entry to the center will be dedicated in their honor. More...
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 immort... More...
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. More...
For the first time in a long time, last Tuesday I attended the City Council meeting from start to finish. It is a frustrating and discouraging experience. I did get a laugh from them at the very end at my own expense when I inadvertently misspoke regarding inserting drink containers into the new "... More...
Architect Frederick Monroe Briggs, 83, who was instrumental in the early planning and design of the master plans for Laguna Beach, passed away Jan. 28 in San Juan Capistrano after a long illness. A memorial service was scheduled Friday, Feb. 22, at 11:30 a.m. at St. Edwards the Confessor Catholic... More...
T here was a time in the 60's and 70's when gas stations in Laguna were as thick as bugs on a Buick crossing the Mojave. There were four filling stations on the corner of Broadway and Coast Highway alone. The most notable was Atlantic Richfield. More...