South Laguna

The tax-and spend-idea is a lot better than the charge and spend that got us into this mess. ROBERT SHACKFORD South Laguna

Kudos to Conrad for his drawing of Kadafi/Reagan. Superb! They have so much in common. SUE BURKE South Laguna

Your editorial makes me wonder about you. What do you think got us into this mess? Maybe some Hollywood script writers would help. ROBERT SHACKFORD South Laguna

What a delightful treat to enjoy Sylvia Fine Kaye's "Musical Comedy Tonight III" on PBS. Hope this lovely, witty lady will be able to bring us number IV. Mrs. Charles B. Smith, South Laguna

I have been a resident of South Laguna for 29 years and wish for us to become part of Laguna Beach. There's been a long history of the two communities working side by side. Our three children have gone through the Laguna Beach school system and have, as we have, participated in many joint Laguna-South Laguna activities. We South Lagunans also feel allied with Laguna in sharing not only the schools, but our churches, museums, beaches, hospital, doctors, dentists, architects, realtors, landscapers, markets, restaurants and shops.

A 78-year-old woman who plunged 25 feet to her death from a motorized chairlift in South Laguna was identified Saturday as Madge T. Allen of South Laguna. Allen died at 1:30 p.m. Friday when a cable broke on the "cliff chair" that she was riding from the beach to a cliff-side home. The accident occurred at the southern edge of Thousands Steps Beach, an Orange County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

On the issue of the missing 96 acres of parkland, all of South Orange County mourns this permanent loss. It is evident that the relationship between South Laguna and Laguna Niguel is being rebuilt. The leadership of the City Council--from voiding the "wild" deed that allowed this parkland to be lost to enacting a moratorium protecting its remainder--clearly exhibited that the Laguna Niguel City Council is a government body concerned with acting to protect the values and interests we all share.

The city has appealed to the state Supreme Court to settle a bitter four-year battle over the future of South Laguna's second residential units, also known as bootleg apartments or "granny flats." The city filed a petition Monday with the high court, after an appeals court ruled last month that a city law governing the add-on dwellings cannot be applied to South Laguna. Harold L.