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“If the United States produces more oil than it uses, why are drivers in Claremont still paying more than $5.50 a gallon? That’s the question a lot of people are asking right now — and the answer comes down to one simple reality: Oil is not local. It’s global.”
Saturday, January 21 marks the one-year anniversary of the massive windstorm that walloped Claremont. This windstorm was one of the worst in years and did significant damage to trees, power lines, and structures. Power was lost to about 1,400 homes and clean-up took weeks. Now that the dust has settled, we can reflect on the […]
Jin Chung, a 75-year-old Los Angeles man reported missing Sunday, January 22 after a hike at Mt. Baldy, was found safe Tuesday afternoon.
“This afternoon search and rescue members located missing hiker, Jin Chung,” read a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office. “Mr. Chung suffered some weather-related injuries and a leg injury but was able to walk out with the assistance of the crew members. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment.”
Mount Baldy resident Sean Khao has a unique 2023 resolution: to establish her footing as the new owner of Sherwood Florist.
Claremont Courier High school sports roundup: January 20, 2023
Los Angeles County has elected to fast track a new “court” aimed at delivering mental health disorder services to Californians who need it most.
Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2022, the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, called CARE Court, aims to break the cycle of incarceration and homelessness for people with severe mental illness by implementing a court-ordered 12-month plan to get those people into critical care.
Student submissions are currently being accepted for the City of Claremont and Claremont Unified School District’s 33rd annual Making Change contest, which gives students an opportunity to honor human rights and social justice activists.
Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to appoint former board member Hilary LaConte to fill the Trustee Area 4 seat vacated by Steven Llanusa, who resigned December 10.
There were 10 applicants for the vacant seat, including Aaron Peterson, whom Llanusa narrowly defeated in the November 8 election.
The Claremont Young Musicians Intermezzo Orchestra, conducted by Greg Samuel, will hold a free and open to the public concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, January 22 in Pomona College’s Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont.
Following the two most recent rainstorms, the local hillsides were over-saturated with water and several landslides were discovered in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park. Additionally, the creek that crosses the trail at the entrance was quite deep and swift. Rangers were able to clean up the rock slides on Monday and by Tuesday morning the creek flow had subsided, prompting the decision to reopen the park. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
Ideally, bars, taverns, and pubs can occupy both physical and emotional territory. For me, like many, Upland’s Blackwatch Pub — which will celebrate its 40th anniversary Saturday — is such a place.
The signs that a powerful windstorm ravaged Claremont during the evening of January 21, 2022 are almost invisible, but they’re there: a canted stump on 12th Street; a new sidewalk on Claremont Boulevard; macadam patches along Foothill Boulevard mark where toppled trees had punctured its surface.
By 10:30 a.m. on a recent Friday, Rene Casas had already met rock star Billy Idol, celebrated National Cuddling Day with a consenting colleague, and namedropped his alma mater, La Verne’s Bonita High School, on live radio.
Claremont residents awoke Saturday to find antisemitic flyers left on their driveways in an apparent random, anonymous act.
One of the flyers distributed on Via Zurita Street and Radcliffe Drive intimated Jews are behind the pornography industry. Another parroted the “protocols of the learned elders of Zion,” an antisemitic hoax fabricated in Russia in 1903.
Jason Moss, executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys, said the flyers mirror those distributed throughout the United States for more than a year.
After a spate of recent cultural losses, including the Candlelight Pavilion, Rhino Records, and apparently, The Press, Claremont can finally put one in the win column: the Laemmle Claremont 5 theater will remain open … for now.
“Escrow has been cancelled,” Laemmle Theaters President and CEO Greg Laemmle told the Courier on Monday.
As I write this, light rain falls outside and the diversity of homes within my line of sight is amazing. A small, one-story bungalow kit home across Indian Hill Boulevard, being repaired and restored after damage from the January 2022 windstorm, sits directly across Seventh Street from a stately and substantial 1895 foursquare.
I was a 16-year-old kid who loved hiking and had trekked up to Mt. Baldy many times. I’d hiked all the routes, in all seasons, even in the dead of winter.
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