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Claremont High School Principal Brett O’Connor still loves his job and the students he helps guide through their important transitional years, but after 38 years in education the time has come for him to step aside.
This Claremont Courier special, “Today’s Parent,” might more accurately be titled, “Today’s Parent … is under stress.”
The lengthy process to effectively update the city’s hotel and motel ordinance appears to be on its way to becoming the law of the land after the Claremont Planning Commission signed off on the latest version and sent it to the City Councilfor approval.
By a 6-0 vote, with one commissioner absent, the panel ratified a slightly tweaked ordinance that had been hammered out during a marathon six-hour joint meeting between the planning and police commissions on January 28.
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com
On Valentine’s Day the Claremont City Council sent a love letter, affirming its commitment to accept all people and reject any form of hate or discrimination.
By a unanimous vote, the council passed a resolution “Condemning hate crimes and any other form of racism, religious or ethnic bias, discrimination, incitement of violence or targeting a minority.”
he word “history” comes from the Greek word “historia,” which means “inquiry” or better stated, “knowledge from inquiry.” This is fitting because for a property to receive the designation “historic,” it requires inquiry and documentation.
The cold wet weather did not stop El Roble students hanging out in the rain during their lunch break on Friday. Heavy rain is falling in Claremont and will continue for the remainder of Saturday, with clearing coming Sunday. More than five inches of rain in the valley and up to six feet of snow has dropped in the higher elevations over 6,500 feet, with over two feet of snow reported in Mt. Baldy Village. Blizzard warnings remain in effect and Baldy Road remains blocked. Police are asking the public to stay indoors and not attempt to drive up. More information and photos will be posted as news develops. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
Claremont Courier Event Calendar: (February 24, 2023 – March 4, 2023)
An unusually cold and windy winter storm is making its way across Southern California, bringing with it possible snowfall in foothill communities and dangerously high surf along the coast.
The National Weather Service had predicted snow levels to fall as low at 1,500 feet through Thursday morning. With Claremont at 1,169 feet above sea level, it’s possible we could see snow accumulating here for the first time since about 1972.
Cash Whiteley is about to share his story with a national television audience.
The unhoused 59-year-old man will be featured in a seven-minute segment in the 8 a.m. hour on CBS Mornings, this Thursday, February 23.
Courier readers may be familiar with Whiteley as the subject of last week’s column by editor Mick Rhodes, “Cash Whiteley is a man … on the mend,” [February 17] and several other stories from last summer and fall.
As I reported last week, our neighbor Cashman “Cash” Whiteley is on the mend.
That is a joyful sentence to write.
Some may recall my August 12 story and subsequent columns about the 59-year-old unhoused man who had been suffering for several years with a large, open, and growing mystery wound on the left side of his face. The wound is a mystery no more: it is skin cancer.
But with the diagnosis has come an unlikely renaissance.
The Montclair Police Department has arrested three more youths in connection with the February 2 shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in the Montclair Place mall parking lot.
Arrested February 14 were Isaac Banuelos, 20, Victor Avina, 20, and a 16-year-old boy. They were charged with a several crimes, including murder with a gang enhancement, and accessory after the fact of murder. Police also recovered multiple firearms but did not say if they suspected any were used in the mall shooting.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against Former Claremont Unified School District Board of Education President Steven Llanusa and two other people in connection with a December 3 holiday party at Llanusa’s Claraboya home.
“The allegations involved inappropriate behavior and furnishing alcoholic beverages to members of the Claremont High School Choir program,” read a news release from Claremont Police Department Lt. Karlan Bennett.
Thanks to an increase in property and sales tax revenues, the city’s finance department reported a small budget surplus during Tuesday’s Claremont City Council meeting, which the Council elected to spend on hiring a police officer.
The new officer will address commercial and residential burglaries, and criminal activity around the motels near the 10 Freeway, according to a staff report.
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle recently announced this year’s theatrical excellence awards, and Upland’s Ophelia’s Jump Productions artistic director Beatrice Casagran was among the winners of its Gordon Davidson Award for distinguished contribution to the Los Angeles theatrical community.
“I am honored to be recognized as part of a hardworking grass roots coalition that worked really hard to get SB1116 passed,” Casagran wrote in a statement.
Claremont Unified School District teachers, including Lorrie Brown, pictured here, gathered outside the Claremont Helen Renwick Library Wednesday evening to protest a petition drive for a special election being held there.
The petition, if successful, will compel the school district to hold a special election to fill the Trustee Area 4 seat on the CUSD Board of Education, at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $273,000. Those pushing for the special election have until Tuesday, February 21 to gather the 99 signatures they say are required to force the election.
It’s fitting that on a recent weekday evening, Vince Skelly wore a green baseball hat emblazoned with the Sycamore School leaf logo. Yes, Claremont’s oldest elementary school is the 35-year-old artist and furniture maker’s alma mater, but it’s also an indirect nod to his craft: carving trees into singular sculptures that accentuate the raw material’s natural beauty. What’s more, many of the trees he carves grew right here in his hometown.
In the wake of the devastating windstorm in January 2022, which felled more than 300 of Claremont’s beloved trees, Skelly embarked on a rescue mission in his pickup truck, clearing driveways, streets, and local landmarks of fallen branches and uprooted trunks with a hand-cranked crane hooked to his tailgate.
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