Laguna Blanca welcomed 34 new students to join the parliament of Owls this year. The freshman class saw the biggest growth with a total of 23 new students. Five students joined the tenth grade, two joined...

Get ready to kiss your local bookstore goodbye! With the creation of new sites, apps, and tablets like iBooks, Audible, Kindles, and iPads, the need for paper books has been virtually eradicated. But...

Picture this. You are going about your life; you are working at your job and taking care of your family. In order to do these things, you have your trusty 15-year-old brown car. This car may be old, but...

There comes a point in all of our lives where we are bewildered, dwarfed and even frightened by the magnitude of the world around us. For most, this experience inhibits us from realizing how simple making...

Shane Lopes, the head football coach as well as the strength and conditioning coach, has taken on a new responsibility in the community as he has agreed to become the new upper school dean of students,...

Varsity Football head coach and Dean of Students Shane Lopes organized and ran the first ever football passing clinic at Laguna Blanca School on Feb. 7. Forty-eight athletes from Santa Barbara High, Cate,...

In the continuing efforts to seize upon interdisciplinary learning whenever possible, upper school students were offered the opportunity to volunteer alongside Dr. Mimi Doohan. The ninth-graders’...

With its origins dating back to over 4,000 years ago, martial arts are systems and traditions of combat practices that involve self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, entertainment and...

A typical troublemaker teen in small-town Nebraska, Mike Smith decided to blaze his own trail in life during his senior year of high school. He made a choice to not be ordinary. Since then, Smith, a skater...

Though Christmas may be the season of giving, some gifts may not be much of a pleasure to receive. Even though your great-aunt’s heart may have been in the right place when she sent you that oversized,...

Ninth graders enjoyed an Experiential Learning day on Jan. 6 as part of the unit on John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” travelling to the Gainey Ranch in Santa Ynez. Prior to leaving, they watched...