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Erika I. Ritchie

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Erika I. Ritchie

    Agate Street stairs in Laguna Beach closed off after rockslide (opens the original)

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    The beach stairs at Agate Street in Laguna Beach are closed to the public following a rockslide Tuesday, Sept. 29, just below the viewing area. Fire and Marine Safety crews responded and closed the area, said Lauren Ezzel, the city’s spokesperson. No injuries were reported, and the stairs were undamaged. But a city geologist inspected the structure on Wednesday to make sure it was stable and uncompromised, she said. There was no word Wednesday afternoon on when the stairs might reopen. The stair

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Erika I. Ritchie

    Laguna Beach gets emergency repair permit to fill in chunked out Aliso Beach (opens the original)

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    Sand washed into the Aliso Beach parking lot during recent high surf and surging tide conditions will be used to fill an area to the south where waves chomped away at the shore. If all goes as planned, officials said the parking lot at the popular, family-friendly South Laguna beach should be cleared and ready to reopen in about two weeks. In late August, just before Labor Day, the city’s Park Rangers had to cordon off the entrance to the ocean-side lot and close a left-turn lane on Coast Highwa

  3. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Erika I. Ritchie

    Laguna Bluebelt, San Juan Capistrano Equestrian Center honored at OC Coastkeeper’s ‘Toast of the Coast’ (opens the original)

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    Orange County Coastkeeper honored a Laguna Beach nonprofit and a San Juan Capistrano business at its recent Toast of the Coast for their work helping to keep the local shoreline a special place. At Thursday’s fundraising gala, Michael Beanan and Jinger Wallace of the Laguna Bluebelt Coalition received Coastkeeper’s Outstanding Activist Award — for nearly 20 years, the two have built support and traveled the coast to advocate for Marine Protected Areas, which, within their first decade in Califor

  4. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Erika I. Ritchie

    San Clemente to get $1 million in state funding to help with sand at North Beach (opens the original)

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    San Clemente Mayor Rick Loeffler said he was thrilled Thursday that recent state legislation is helping the beach town secure an extra $1 million for sand replenishment at North Beach. The council told City Manager Andy Hall last week to use $1 million in city funds to find the most sand at the lowest cost; now Hall will have some extra money to use. “Instead of putting $1 million on the beach, we’re going to be looking at scooping up $2 million of sand and put it up at North Beach,” Loeffler sa

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Erika I. Ritchie

    As Promenade on Forest is completed, businesses in the Laguna Beach downtown celebrate (opens the original)

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    In 1946, a young pharmacist who had just graduated from USC envisioned growing a family business; now, 80 years later, that business, Bushard’s Pharmacy, still serves the community in the same building Joseph Bushard built along Laguna Beach’s Forest Avenue. The business has watched the city’s downtown and the popularity of Forest Avenue grow. And in recent years, as Bushard’s and its neighbors hung on through the pandemic and thrived in the years since, it was the evolution of the avenue into t

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