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JANUARY 26, 2024 | Volume XXI, Issue 04
Residents, Local Environmental Groups Band Together to Halt Unauthorized By Clara Beard | LB Indy The rain fell softly outside the SCE Grading Neighborhood Congregational
‘She Taught Us Beauty Is Worth Protecting’: Remembering Barbara Metzger Laguna Beach recently installed temporary skate ramps at the Community & Recreation Center as part of a pilot program. Photo courtesy of the City of Laguna Beach
Church on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 20, as dozens of Barbara Metzger’s family and friends gathered to pay tribute to the longtime Laguna Beach advocate and editor, who died on Dec. 10, 2023 at the age of 90. The service included words from Laguna Wilderness Press Founder Ron Chilcote, former Laguna Beach Mayor Ann Christoph, Metzger’s daughter Claire Stoneman and granddaughter Twyla Mount. “Barbara taught us that what is beautiful is worth protecting,” Mount said at her grandmother’s celebration of life. Metzger’s extensive community involvement included being a member of the Design
As a busy copy editor, Barbara Metzger could be seen traveling back and forth to the former Kinkos in North Laguna. Photo courtesy of the Stoneman family
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Marc Wiener Vacates Post as Community Development Director Public Works Director Named as Temporary Replacement By Clara Beard | LB Indy After four years of public service in Laguna Beach, Marc Wiener left his position as Community Development Director on Wednesday, Jan. 24 according to an announcement released by the city the following day. The release stated that Wiener left “to pursue other professional opportunities.”
Laguna Beach Community Development Director Marc Wiener left his position with the city on Jan. 24. Photo courtesy of the city of Laguna Beach.
“I wish to thank Marc for his contributions these past four years and to wish him well in his future endeavors. Marc is proud of his time in Laguna and of the many friends he made along the way,” Interim City Manager Sean Joyce said. The interim city manager has appointed Laguna Beach Public Works Director Mark McAvoy as the Acting Director of Community Development while the city searches for a permanent replacement. McAvoy will work with Assistant WIENER, PAGE 7
By Clara Beard | LB Indy On Jan. 4, Janine Robinson set out on her daily morning walk in the area around Alta Laguna Park. However, what the Top of the World resident saw carved into the wilderness below was anything but routine. Several dirt paths, approximately 20 feet wide and estimated to be one to two miles long, had been bulldozed into the city-owned open space creating a prominent blemish across the landscape west of Alta Laguna Boulevard and north of Park Avenue. Robinson, who immediately contacted the Top of the World Neighborhood Association about her discovery wasn’t the only citizen with raised eyebrows and questions. “Imagine my reaction when my son came running into the house asking why people in bulldozers were ‘wrecking the ground in our front yard,’” A Park Avenue homeowner wrote in an email to the Indy. “How do you answer such an improbable question?” After a week-long flurry of emails and calls back and forth to city and county officials, concerned residents and local environmental groups discovered that not only SCE, PAGE 12
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