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Should Laguna Beach continue to cite businesses that don't comply with the stay-at-home order? Weigh-in for this week's poll. To vote, click the link and find the "Poll" tab in the top right corner of our homepage.

I’ll always remember that evening, Dr. Jorg Rubal said in a statement. The way the shipment was packaged, with a high-tech GPS device, underscored the importance of what we received, giving us goosebumps. We felt a strong sense of relief and joy.

Assistant City Manager Shohreh Dupuis wrote in a brief statement to the Independent on Tuesday that she would feel honored if given the chance to serve the community as the next Laguna Beach City Manager.

The devil weed’ is invading the giant kelp forest along the Laguna beach coastline. Click the link below to learn more from Rita Robinson, a special contributor to the Laguna Beach Independent.

A Laguna Beach restaurant manager recently received two citations for failing to comply with the stay-at-home order, marking the first crackdown by local code enforcement staffers during the current surge in COVID-19 cases.

From COVID challenges to new development, here are some of the top stories from the past year.

The city is a step closer to converting lower Forest Avenue into a permanent pedestrian plaza for outdoor dining and shopping in downtown.

Santa Claus rides shotgun in an antique jeep driven by Marine Safety Capt. Kai Bond during a Christmas caravan on Dec. 20. Santa was joined by Laguna Beach emergency vehicles and a trolley ferrying carolers from No Square Theatre. Click the link below to see more photos by contributing photographer Chloe Anady.

Instructional Assistant Chantale McConnell rose to the challenge of guiding cohorts of up to 20 Kindergarten students through a very unusual year at Top of the World Elementary School. She still sees little smiles underneath her students’ face masks as they sit behind plexiglass mounted on their desks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Inevitably, a student will break down and cry for their mom. McConnell is there to help make them feel happy at school.

An Orange County Superior Court judge held Wednesday that PIMCO founder Bill Gross and his girlfriend harassed their Laguna Beach neighbors earlier this year, playing the Gilligan’s Island theme song on a loop until they agreed to drop a code enforcement complaint.