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California State University Board of Trustees recently named Vanya Quinones the eighth president of Cal Poly Pomona and the school’s first Latina leader, at a yearly salary of $492,500, annual deferred contribution of $61,244 to the CSU Deferred Compensation Plan for Executives, potential incentive pay up to 5% of her base salary, a $1,000-per-month auto allowance, and standard executive benefits. Currently president of Cal State Monterey Bay, Quinones starts at Cal Poly Pomona on July 1. Photo/courtesy of Cal Poly Pomona
After a two- year hiatus, the new and improved L.A. County Fair 2022 is open in the spring from May 5-30 to avoid the heat in the late summer. And 2022 is a big year because it’s the fair’s 100th anniversary with a theme Back to our Roots. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
aced with chronic drought conditions, dwindling supplies and a less that stellar snowpack, the Metropolitan Water District declared a water emergency last week, requiring all agencies served by the State Water District to cut usage dramatically. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
I’m a gawker. A gawker of buildings that is. When I visit a city I may like a certain place, a hotel, restaurant or a museum but I am the more interested and taken if the building is a striking piece of architecture.
For those of us rooting for Samuel Kraemer-Dahlin — and there are many — the events of the past few weeks have been deflating.
Join the Claremont Helen Renwick Library’s monthly book club, held in the library’s meeting room between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m., for an engaging discussion about the club’s latest selection, “How to Bake a Perfect Life” by Barbara O’Neal. The club is open to adults (18+). Contact the library at (909) 621-4902 with any questions.
Last Tuesday evening at Eddie’s Italian Eatery seemed to be business as usual. At the front end, the restaurant was seating its normal flow of hungry guests for dinner, while in the back party area, about 50 people were packed in for a dinner theater experience, courtesy of the Inland Valley Repertory Theatre.
When was the last time you walked 16 miles in a single day? What made you want to do it? On May 1, Crossroads held their “Walking Home” fundraiser, which included six women walking 15.8 miles from the California Institution for Women (CIW) in Chino to Crossroad’s Harvard House in Claremont.
The fourth Claremont Art Walk of 2022 will take place this Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m.
The local housing market may not be as crazy as it was 18 months ago, but that news might surprise anyone actually looking for a place to live in the City of Trees.
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com The local housing market may not be as crazy as it was 18 months ago, but that news might surprise anyone actually looking for a place to live in the City of Trees. According Paul Steffen of Wheeler Steffen Sotheby’s International Realty, last year his office might have seen 30 […]
The view from the top of Eagle Scout Trail is quite surreal. To the east you can see Cal Poly Pomona and its Classroom, Laboratory and Administration building — the university’s landmark “pointy building” — and to the west you can see the hustle and bustle of busy Pomona streets.
The West End Auxiliary of Children’s Fund presents the Green Carpet Dollar Garden Walk today and tomorrow across two local gardens beginning at 10 a.m.
Three years ago, owner of the kennel Papa Bear Bullies, Miguel Lopez made the 300-mile trek down the 10 Freeway from Los Angeles to Phoenix for a dog event hosted at The Pitbull Store, an Arizona-based dog supply and event store.
by Ann-Marie Torres Pressing up to the net, Diana O’Brien hustles a quick return and sends her opponents scrambling. She throttles a neon, green ball with a fiery snap of her wrist and wins the point. “That’s more like it,” she exhales, smiling at her partner. “Let’s do this.” This athletic maven refuses to lose […]
The City of Claremont has released its assessment of the financial toll from the January 21 windstorm and will pay the bill using its emergency reserves.
Attendees at the Claremont City Council meeting recite the Pledge of Allegiance on Tuesday in the Claremont Village. The council voted unanimously to extend the COVID era temporary outdoor dining program until early 2023. The meeting was just the second time that the council met in person since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
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