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COVID-19 Vaccine: Who Will Take it ?

COVID-19 Vaccine: Who Will Take it ?

Cierra Nervo, Staff January 25, 2021

This pandemic has gone on long enough. Students want to return to school, businesses want to reopen and friends want to hang out without fear of contracting COVID-19. All the resources required...

How Ski Resorts Are Coping with COVID-19

How Ski Resorts Are Coping with COVID-19

Carson Bohnet, Staff January 25, 2021

After months of being closed, ski resorts are re-opening in Europe and in the U.S. which leaves people to ask if it is safe to go skiing this winter due to the ever-climbing coronavirus infection...

A New Age of Vice Presidents: The First Woman and Woman of Color is Elected VP

A New Age of Vice Presidents: The First Woman and Woman of Color is Elected VP

Nikki Mielcarek, Staff January 25, 2021

Some day in the near future, a chapter in the history books of every student will read as follows: on Jan. 20, 2021, 56-year-old senator Kamala Harris became the first Black female Vice President. This...

Recruiting High School Volunteers for Summer Program

Recruiting High School Volunteers for Summer Program

January 24, 2021

We are happy to announce that United Way will be holding our annual summer enrichment program, Fun in the Sun, in person this summer. After a virtual experience last summer we are very excited to be able...

Academic Services: An Environment for Students to Succeed

Academic Services: An Environment for Students to Succeed

Patrik Nugent December 8, 2020

Academic Services: An Environment for Students to Succeed The environment of Academic Services is one that is quiet and calm, allowing many students who appear there to perform their very best on assignments....

DEI Program Launched

DEI Program Launched

Dare Fitzpatrick December 1, 2020

Our school is constantly striving for perfection—excellent teachers and academics, a balance between school and play for students, and a sense of belonging for every community member. Laguna is an exceptional...

Celebrating the Life of RBG

Celebrating the Life of RBG

Frances Carlson and Madeleine Nicks December 1, 2020

Ginsburg was born and raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of immigrants. She attended Cornell, Harvard, and Colombia, studying law and earning her Bachelor of Arts in government. She began with...

Coronavirus: Masks as a Political Argument and National Divide

Coronavirus: Masks as a Political Argument and National Divide

Hanna Masri December 1, 2020

At the beginning of this pandemic, there were many unknowns, Covid-19, a coronavirus family member had never been seen in humans before. Scientists were unsure how to handle and manage the virus...

International Pronouns Day

International Pronouns Day

October 21, 2020

Happy International Pronouns Day! Respecting pronouns and normalizing asking for a person's pronouns is a small but meaningful way we can create a larger cultural shift. Interested in learning...

Daisy Finefrock, hostess at Finney’s in Santa Barbara.

My Life: These Eyes Are Smiling in Santa Barbara

Daisy Finefrock, Co-Editor-in-Chief October 13, 2020

I’m a host at Finney’s Crafthouse, and that means I’m the first face you see when you walk up to the restaurant, which is owned by my uncle. When I started working there, just as the COVID-19...

Join Lagunas Mock Trial Team!

Join Laguna’s Mock Trial Team!

October 6, 2020

 It is a great opportunity for those interested in the law, looking to do an extracurricular activity, or develop a character for a witness role and have fun with acting.  And, something to include on...

First Amendment

First Amendment

Claire Tolles, Lead Designer & Opinion Editor September 28, 2020

One-page illustrations by Claire Tolles, Vanessa Mielcarek, and Phoebe Stein the First Amendment and protected speech.

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