Locals Collaborate on Award-Winning Beach Trail
Laguna resident Bob Borthwick, a principal of Borthwick Guy Bettenhausen landscape architects of Irvine, recently received the award of merit from the American Society...
Serial Fast Food Robber Nabbed
By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy
Police arrested a 48-year-old man suspected of 30 mostly failed hold-ups of fast-food restaurants after allegedly using a...
Victims Unleash a River of Grief
By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy
Distraught flood victims poured out their fears, grievances, pleas and suggestions last Friday to city officials, who agreed to...
Tallying Storm Losses Could Speed Flood Relief
Residents and businesses that have sustained any damage from the Dec. 22 storm should report the extent of those damages for at least two...
Disaster Spawns Flood Watch Advocates
By Jennifer Erickson | LB Indy
In the wake of Laguna Beach’s most recent disaster, some residents see costly lessons in how to minimize danger...
Relief Efforts Take Shape
Wanted: Strong Bodies, Trucks and a Storage Shed
By Rita Robinson | LB Indy
Skilled volunteers as well as specific items are needed to help flood...
A Flood of Relief Requests
Compiled by Indy staff
Laguna Beach flood victims who are trying to "dig out" mud from inside their houses and off their properties are in...
Matt Engen and Stan Price
Matt Engen
Matthew Engen, known as Matt or Matteo, died unexpectedly Dec. 15, 2010.
The husband of Glynnis Engen, and son of Rolf and Carol Engen...
Preparing for the Next Onslaught
Even as flood-wary residents monitor weather forecasts and hope to avoid a repeat of last week’s destruction, city officials are tallying damage to 30...
Preparing for the Next Onslaught
Even as flood-wary residents monitor weather forecasts and hope to avoid a repeat of last week’s destruction, city officials are tallying damage to 30...
Streat Beat
Arrest Made in Mail Thefts
Laguna police arrested a Santa Ana woman for suspicion of mail theft after they found correspondence from several people in...
Volunteers Vital to Flood Cleanup
By Ted Reckas | LB Indy
Liesa Schimmelpfennig, daughter of Anneliese Schools founder Anneliese Schimmelpfennig, snuck into the Laguna Canyon campus with a few friends...
Canyon Surrenders to Storm’s Force
Nurseryman Kevin Naughton says the devastation that wrecked his Laguna Gardens Nursery “was unlike other storms” that have come through the canyon. It had all the characteristics of a flash flood, a wall of water that “blew out everything in its path,” he said, including 100-pound statues and a cinder block wall that toppled intact.
Indeed, Naughton’s property, once filled with garden accessories, ceramic pots and healthy greenery at the corner of Laguna Canyon and Raquel roads, this week looked like it had been in the path of a steamroller and a tornado.
Special-Needs Rocker Back in the Spotlight
Scott Siegel, the autistic songwriter and vocalist who leads the Arrest My Sister alternative rock band, is among 11 honorees at the first Genius...
Of Service To More Than Veterans
By Lee Winocur Field and Marion K. Jacobs
Chartered and incorporated by Congress in 1919, the American Legion is devoted to advocating on behalf of...