Home is Here When I climbed the steps to the Congregational Church on Thanksgiving day, I didn’t know what to expect. In all the years I have lived in Laguna, I’ve never gone to the community potluck. Hesitating at the upper landing while carefully balancing my recently cooked pumpkin casserole, I started to see [...]
Ganka Brown’s letter “Keeping Score,” in the Oct. 28 edition misquoted the end of Ann Christoph’s Village Matters column of Oct. 21. Christoph signed off saying, “Love it. Live it. Be Laguna,” rather than Brown’s summation “Love it or leave it.”
Perhaps one day we will look back on this period since 2008 wistfully, as the time we gained a new and better perspective. Discredited were the institutions we relied on to keep our country stable. The economy that depended on growth and building more outrageously expensive houses stopped making any sense. Personal tragedies abounded. Sad and frightening tales, losses of homes and jobs, were the result of an economic “adjustment.”
Reversing a city board’s approval to preserve a long-abandoned cottage in South Laguna, the City Council sided with the property owner, South Coast Water District, to raze what was described as a ruin. The city’s Design Review Board earlier agreed that the 1928 cottage, sitting empty for nearly 40 years on Fourth Street near S. [...]
Planter mix mud play is completely okay with members Johanna Borella and Brian Andrews, who along with hose minders Jack and Alani, helped with the expansion of more raised boxes to the lower level of the South Laguna Garden this weekend. Photo by Ann Christoph.
Editor, Your liberal, whining biased Democratic paper goes right in the trash or used for sending packages. Ann Christoph is on another planet. No wonder the city is so screwed up. Ever try responsible government by the people? Ben Jones, Laguna Beach
Large blue San Onofre Breccia boulders were installed last week in South Laguna’s community garden, giving added permanence to the plot-filled corner and creating an informal memorial to longtime resident Frank Keneley. His widow, Hilde, donated some of the indigenous slabs her husband kept for five decades, said Ann Christoph, one of the garden’s founders. [...]
Changing the baby with the bathwater Remember the days when city hall’s offices would close for lunch? So did Laguna Lumber. I hear that Laguna Lumber would also close for two weeks in the summer to allow its employees to have a summer vacation. And of course, until Ganahl bought it, it was never open [...]
Cottage Sequel It just happened that the beginning of my planned trip to Italy with my nieces coincided with the council’s decision on the “final solution” for the cottages at Big Bend. I had done all I could think of, to no avail. I was sorry to hear by email that the council had voted [...]
Cuervo Trusting, a crow perched on our patio steps. Just standing there, looking up. He’d spread his too-short wings and jump-fly from one step to another, then look around bewildered as if to say, “How did I get here? And now what? I don’t see mom and dad anywhere.” Fortunately our cats were on their [...]
All in the Point of View For nine years I lived and worked in a house on the oceanfront. Dramatic views and crashing waves were constant embellishments to my life. It was lovely but lonely. Our house was one in a row of houses, every one facing out to the ocean view. There was the [...]
Formulas Don’t Fit Laguna “It will ruin the views of the hills from the parking lot,” my friend said when he saw the stakes outlining the new roofs and walls at the Aliso Creek shopping center (CVS and Albertson’s.) A management company in Baltimore has decided that what our shopping center really needs is some [...]
Rejoice; people want to be involved! A woman came up to the microphone in an almost empty council chambers. It was near midnight. Council members were tired, but this was time for public communication. I was a council member in the 1990s and at that time we scheduled public communication at the end of the [...]
A Laguna Love Story Does no one want to tell his or her love story? In my last column—thinking ahead for our upcoming Valentine’s fest—I told my dear friend’s love story. Then I asked if anyone else had a story to share, and promised to publish them this week. Nary a one appeared in my [...]
Does no one want to tell his or her love story? In my last column—thinking ahead for our upcoming Valentine’s fest—I told my dear friend’s love story. Then I asked if anyone else had a story to share, and promised to publish them this week. Nary a one appeared in my inbox. Next time I [...]
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 [...]
