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“Another ‘No Kings’ rally is in the books and with it has come another joy hangover. As hangovers go, this is the good one. I joined more than 3,000 like-minded folks here in Claremont last Saturday, proving once again that righteous anger displayed on a mass scale doesn’t have to end in violent insurrection. The vibes were joyous, despite the seriousness of the moment. It gave me, and I suspect thousands of others, a much-needed dose of hope.” Photo/by Jessie Cadenas
Reveal Your Inner Elf takes place this Friday between 5 and 9 p.m. All are encouraged to help Sister Terry Dodge and Jackie wrap Christmas gifts for the Crossroads Inc. women.
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com When the 2021 Miss America competition aired Thursday evening on the Peacock television network, the newly-crowned champion shared one striking similarity among a few East Coast college graduates, and the 2021 Claremont High School homecoming court. If you inferred the headline correctly, you likely guessed all wore sashes depicting their […]
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com In 1961, shortly after buying a nearly two-acre lot in what was then mostly wide open north Claremont, René Brock planted an Italian stone pine. It remains there today, now 50 feet tall. Its oddly shaped canopy and massive trunk serve as a reminder of the decades that have passed […]
Mayor Jennifer Stark acknowledges the standing ovation from the crowd gathered at city hall Tuesday night as she presides over her last Claremont City Council meeting as mayor. The meeting was the first in-person meeting for a year and nine months and the first one during Stark’s year as mayor held in the council chambers. The council unanimously approved two ceremonial motions, first to appoint Jed Leano as mayor and also to make Ed Reece mayor pro-tem. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
With high temperatures in the 40s in Claremont Tuesday, one might think two inches of rain would bring significant snow to Mt Baldy, above. That wasn’t really the case this time around as less than a foot of the white stuff fell at even the highest of elevations. There may not even be enough to […]
Hello and welcome. This is Janice Hoffmann for the Claremont Courier, and thanks for taking a short break from your busy day to smile, as you listen to the next installment of “Creative Mindfulness”. Mindfulness is simply looking at the current moment, from another perspective without judgment or rancor, and this morning, we have a […]
Claremont Mayor Jennifer Stark and Claremont Unified School District board member Bob Fass had a lot of fun Saturday evening during Ophelia’s Jump Production of It’s A Wonderful Life at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church. Together, the duo produced foley sound effects for the interactive production based off the 1946 classic film and showed their silly […]
A small rockslide covers Mt. Baldy Road north of Claremont as a winter storm swept through the region on Tuesday. Precipitation began early in the morning and continued through much of the day with occasional bursts of heavy rainfall. The National Weather Service recorded just over two inches of rain in Ontario, 2.5 inches at […]
As a strong winter storm approaches residents concerned about flooding can pick up sandbags at any of the city’s three Los Angeles County fire stations.
At 4 p.m. on Saturday, the Claremont Village was seeing its usual traffic of shoppers, tourists and diners. But as the hour was quickly chewed away and 5 p.m. arrived, so did hundreds of Claremont residents, swarming the Depot and Village for the city’s Holiday Promenade and tree lighting ceremony.
For the last 12 years, including their time at the Harvard building adjacent to Bardot, residents have gotten to know Donna Daniel and her daughter Katie.
Beginning Friday, December 10, the public is invited to Luminaria Nights at the California Botanic Garden, where they will be “enchanted at this Claremont tradition where the garden glows with light for the holidays,” the garden’s website read. Special holiday installations and live music will be included.
Charles Francis Farritor was born September 9, 1924 in Anselmo, Custer County, Nebraska. He was the fifth child of six children, the grandson of Irish immigrants who successfully homesteaded in Nebraska in the mid-1800s.
Claremont resident Georgianna (Hall) Terrell died Oct. 31 at the age of 87 from medical complications associated with open heart surgery.
News last week that the beloved Laemmle Claremont 5 appears to be near the end of its run has had some local fans up in arms on social media.
Hello and welcome. This is Janice Hoffmann for the Claremont Courier, and thanks for taking a short break from your busy day to smile as you listen to the next installment of “Creative Mindfulness”. No worries. I’m not going to tell you to relax; I’m not going to tell you how to breathe. Mindfulness is […]
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