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“Recently I joined some 475,000 other music fans for the 56th New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. In my previous life as a bulletproof traveler with bottomless enthusiasm and unlimited stamina, my only advance thought would have been how to cram in as much music and fun as possible into the five days I had in the Crescent City. But that was then, and this is 62.”
An affordable housing project delayed by funding challenges and bad timing will begin construction early next year on an underutilized plot of land in north Claremont. The development, expected to be completed in 2025, will house 15 to 30 low-income seniors at 956 W. Base Line Road. It will include 15 one-bedroom units around a landscaped courtyard with six parking spaces. An existing single-family home will be transformed into a common use area where residents can access services or simply gather to socialize. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
“Timeless Claremont” is the title of the newly released Claremont Courier coffee table book. Culled from its extensive archives, the 170-page book chronicles the history of Claremont through the Courier’s award winning photojournalism over the past 50-plus years.
As we welcome winter’s solstice and the darkest days, new beginnings arrive in anticipation of the coming longer, brighter days.
Rabbi Shalo Harlig from Chabad of the Inland Empire spent Monday afternoon at Claremont Manor lighting the menorah for the fifth night of Hanukkah, and presiding over an event that also included arts and crafts, a raffle, and 91-year-old resident Mel Opotowsky’s bar mitzvah. In the evening led some 60 celebrants in lighting the menorah at Claremont City Hall. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
In late October, Zoë Batterman, a 21-year-old senior mathematics major at Pomona College, received an email she had to read a few times to process fully. It was good news, really good news. The email informed Batterman she was one of just two students nationwide to receive the 2024 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman from the Association for Women in Mathematics. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
About 100 Claremont Colleges students staged a sit-in protest Friday evening outside Pomona College’s Frary Dining Hall Friday to demand Pomona College divest funds from its endowment they say are benefiting weapons manufacturers and institutions that aid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. The students were also demanding Pomona College officials call for a cease-fire in Gaza. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Members of Cielo Rojo Dance Company perform the La Rama, a traditional Mexican holiday dance from Veracruz at Wednesday’s Festival Navideño at Padua Hills Theatre. The sold out event also included gifts, holiday décor, music, and traditional food. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
The November 29 arrest of Pomona College professor Arón Macal Montenegro at an on campus “die-in” protest triggered a wave of concern from colleagues, activists, and administration, ultimately leading to the withdrawal of charges. Montenegro, a lecturer in Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, was arrested while “demonstrating in solidarity with Palestinians in front of Smiley Hall, playing music from a speaker.” Photo/courtesy of Samson Zhang
High school sports roundup: week of December 8, 2023
The Claremont Chamber of Commerce invites businesses and residents to submit photos of their holiday decorations for a community contest judged by the antique expert Barbara Cheatley. Judging will take place the week of December 18.
Ophelia’s Jump Productions 2024 theatrical season includes four productions at the Upland theater and two shows at the annual Midsummer Shakespeare Festival in Claremont.
California Botanic Garden’s Luminaria Nights returns Friday, December 8, with a CalBG member preview from 6 to 9 p.m. at 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont, including a VIP reception for acorn and family plus level members.
Courier staff and Claremont Graduate School volunteers prepare for Saturday’s “Timeless Claremont” book launch party at CGU’s Jenkins Courtyard.
Georgina “Nina” Garcia, a Claremont resident since 1965, will turn 100 on Wednesday, December 14.
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