Hundreds of kids streamed out of El Morro Elementary on Friday afternoon, chattering excitedly around the lunch pavilion. A banner painted with the word "Fairness" flapped in the breeze as the kids quieted for Principal Chris Duddy. More...
This week residents in the Nyes Place area and nearby businesses, along with Coast Highway motorists, saw a measure of normalcy return to their lives with the wrap up on Tuesday of a lengthy sewer project. It was originally estimated for completion by February. More...
Jerry Ledbetter, who retired as publisher and a co-founder of the old Coastline News in 1999, died last August in Boulder City, Nevada, where he had lived for the past seven years. He was 88. One of his best known and well-respected writers, David Wilson, informed this paper of Ledbetter's passin... More...
The non-golfing public will have a chance to tour the proposed 325-acre Aliso Creek redevelopment project on Saturday, May 10, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m, hosted by developer Athens Group. About 15 people showed up to speak about the project at City Council on Tuesday. More...
The Laguna "L" got a facelift on a recent Saturday, thanks to the initiative of 26-year-old Derek Ostensen. Ostensen was called to action when he learned that the L that had once gleamed bright white from its prominent hillside had suffered more than the occasional senior pranks. More...
A downtown corner once crowded with restaurant patrons is emptier these days. A note posted on the door of closed Cabana says it will reopen by the summer tourist season as Nick's Laguna. Defunct Jamba Juice is to be replaced by Medici Bistro, specializing in Mediterranean take-out dishes. More...
A competitive mountain biker possibly practicing a downhill speed run on a popular canyon trail was injured after a fall Monday evening. Fire Dept. Division Chief Jeff LaTendresse said the biker apparently lost control and fell 30 feet, but 200 feet from the canyon floor. The victim's companion co... More...
Three months from now Laguna's landscape will change significantlywhen the summer art festival season gets underway. Since January, local artists have been abuzz preparing applications to the Festival of Arts and Art-Fair, Laguna's twojuried art shows. More...
A March 28 article entitled "Rules Conflict With Social Mores of a Party Town," about a panel discussion on student use of alcohol and drugs, misquoted parent Dawn Lincoln, who did not attribute her son's behavioral problems to addiction. The writer unintentionally erred in inferring Lincoln's chi... More...
Editor: Thumbs up for last week's letter "The sum of a writer's 20 cents worth." [Kurt Mahoney]. It was right on with all issues that also resonate with me: residential parking, having fiveStarbucks (two within a block of each other downtown), greed, vacant storefronts, lack of resident serving ... More...
Collette Kaplan of Laguna Beach won $25,000 in Orange County Coastkeeper's 2008 raffle drawing held recently in Costa Mesa. Approximately 754 tickets were bought for the raffle,originally sold at $100 each for a chance to win a grand prize of a Lexus hybrid vehicle. More...
Laguna Beach Books will host David Rensin, author of "All for a Few Perfect Waves: The Audacious Life and Legend of Rebel Surfer Miki Dora," for a reading and book signing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. Rensin's book about the renowned and enigmatic surfer is scheduled for release by Harper Ent... More...
Above, Sophomore Casey Chen spreads his wings in the varsity 100 meter butterfly race Tuesday, April 1, as Breakers swam against Calvary and Godinez. More...
When my wife was stricken with breast cancer a second time, I called the hospital where Rosalie was initially treated some 14 years earlier to get the laboratory pathology slides of the original tumor. We needed the original slides to determine whether this latest episode was a new cancer or the r... More...