Latest News
Congratulations to repeat winner Ben Castro, one of just three readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as the sign outside Saca’s Mediterranean Cuisine in the Claremont Village at 248 W. Second St. Ben is now entered into the year-end drawing for a one-year subscription to everyone’s favorite award-winning local newspaper, the Claremont Courier. So, “Where am I” this week? Email your answer, full name, and city of residence — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to contest@claremont-courier.com for your chance to win. Courier photo/Tom Smith
“For more than 10 years, St. Ambrose Episcopal Church has served our houseless neighbors in Claremont by offering showers and hot meals several times a week. This has been a meaningful and life-changing ministry for us and for our guests. But, as the parable goes, ‘We shouldn’t just be pulling people out of the river. We should go upstream to find out who’s pushing them in.’ So, our congregation began asking some bigger questions about the struggle of our houseless guests.” Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
Growing up in Mobile, Alabama, 73-year-old Linda Perkins attended segregated schools and overcame various harsh challenges, all in the pursuit of knowledge. “We always got the leftover books from white people. You know, they were like 50 years old,” Perkins said. “That was the reality of Black people down there. But in spite of all that, Black people helped each other.” Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
“As a campus community devoted to openness, learning and mutual respect, we need to find our way to common ground in the face of sharply divergent commitments. We must affirm our values, recommitting to what unites us, and rather than heeding a call for repudiation and isolation, we must open inquiry, and reassert our human ties. Pomona opens doors, we don’t close them.” Photo/courtesy of Pomona College
Claremont Courier Event Calendar: February 23 – March 2, 2024
Big crowds flocked to California Botanic Garden’s Family Bird Festival on Sunday. The event showcased a variety of native birds, including the red-tailed hawk, great horned owl, and the incredible peregrine falcon, which can fly up to 240 mph and snatch prey right out of the air. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
By Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com About 100 mask-wearing Claremont Colleges students weathered steady rainfall Monday to take part in “5C walk out for Palestine” at Pomona College’s Marston Quad. The 1:30 p.m. protest, organized by Pomona Divest Apartheid, focused on the college’s endowment investments and included students banging on pots with plastic cutlery and chants […]
About ½ inch of rain had fallen in Claremont by mid-day Monday when this photo was taken along Padua Avenue. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch Monday that is in effect through Wednesday morning, when showers should dissipate. Local mountains should see about a foot of snow above 7,500 feet. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
“The caregiver at Claremont Manor, aptly named ‘Mercy,’ was back for what would be her final check up on my 84-year-old father-in-law Glyn at about 9 p.m. Tuesday. ‘Yes,’ was all she said, after seeing that his breathing had become very shallow, his gasps for air inconsistent and further apart. It was time. The room was hushed when he finally let go about 10:15. Then it wasn’t. His daughter, who’d been holding his hand since Saturday, and who I’d seen cry only twice in 10 years, loosed decades of grief and worry.”
St. Ambrose Episcopal Church Rector Jessie Smith told the Courier last year it has been a dream of hers that one day the church would be able to provide affordable housing by developing a portion of its parking lot. That dream is now closer to becoming a reality as the church has partnered with the developer National CORE to construct a 59-unit affordable housing complex on the south side of its property at 830 W. Bonita Avenue. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
“West: A Translation” by Paisley Rekdal, was recently named the 2024 recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Rekdal, a three-time finalist for the award, received news of her selection via a phone call from the judges — a Tufts tradition — a call she described as “a fantastic and career-defining moment.” The Kate Tufts Discovery Award, which recognizes a first book by a poet of unusual promise, went to Jacqui Germain’s collection, “Bittering the Wound.” Photo/courtesy of CGU
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Claremont High School Boys soccer (8-6-2) Palomares League runner-up Claremont was shutout, 2-0, at Cathedral February 7 to begin the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs. Updated brackets are at cifss.org. Girls soccer (12-8-3) CHS lost, 3-1, at Edison in the first round of the CIF-SS Division I playoffs. Brackets are […]
Claremont Meals on Wheels President Barbara Gonzalez has a busy March ahead. On top of getting hot, ready-to-eat meals to subscribers every day, she and CMOW’s 135 volunteers will be raising funds through a familiar event monthlong event, the Party Parade. Events in March will take place at five Claremont homes and 12 nearby businesses. The public is invited to each. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Ba’ac Garcia, of the Tohono O’odham Nation, performs the traditional fancy dance Thursday at Foothill Country Day School as part of its international days week. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
It’s time for registered voters to fill out and turn in ballots for the 2024 presidential primary election, which takes place Tuesday, March 5.
Pomona College hosts a free and open to the public 6 p.m. documentary screening of “Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros,” followed by a director Q&A, at Rose Hills Theatre on Thursday, February 29. Directed by Daniel Weintraub, “Deep Listening” follows the life of the late Pauline Oliveros, a queer American composer, musician, feminist, and humanitarian. Weintraub was first introduced to Oliveros through a neighbor and instantly knew he wanted to share her story. Photo/courtesy of Pomona College
[empowerlocal_ad localstories]