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Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center emergency department recently opened a new waiting area and treatment room for pediatric patients. The waiting room offers activities and games ahead of a child’s visit to a PVHMC physician or nurse.
Beginning on Monday Claremont Change will be begin hosting a virtual workshop series called Identify and Dismantle Derailing Rhetoric. “These workshops are designed to help members of our community identify, disarm, and dismantle derailing rhetorical tactics such as gaslighting, dogwhistles, tone policing, and exceptionalism,” the workshop’s organizers said in a statement. Over the course of […]
25 years ago, Claremont resident Betsy MacLaren started an annual block party within the city’s 5th District.
The defending San Antonio League champion Claremont High School Wolfpack football team is off to a rough start this season, but that may be part of the plan.
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com When you take a bus tour around cities, it’s often exciting to view the unfamiliar sites along the way. But, how often do you get excited about sites that are not even there? The thought of a state-of-the-art Metro Gold Line train running through Claremont to Montclair and connecting the […]
A lengthy tussle between affordable housing advocates on one side and a chorus of residents along with a local developer on the other, moved one step closer to a resolution Tuesday when the Claremont City Council voted to adopt a new Inclusionary Housing Ordinance but delay the implementation for 180 days.
Last week the Claremont Courier published a letter from a faculty member at the Claremont School of Theology (CST) describing events which they say have led it to stay in Claremont.
On Monday, September 20, musicians from the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band, along with the Chaffey Adult School, invite guests to come enjoy their free musical concert dubbed “Welcome Back: It’s Been a Long, Long Time.” The event will be the first, in-person concert from the OCCSB since the pandemic canceled their performances in February […]
Hidden between Aromatique and an outdoor patio space sits a short, narrow pathway that leads to Neon Moon, the Village’s new art supply store and studio. Opened on July 5 by Xrstine Franco with help from her boyfriend, Ilir Zeneli, New Moon is a unique, one-stop-shop that can be described as an artist’s candy store.
After 35 years with the family, the picturesque home of former Claremont mayor Ellen Taylor is on the market and open to visit by private appointment, and to the general public today only, between 2 and 4 p.m. Those who knew Ellen fondly remember her most memorable comment regarding her home as “Everybody’s welcome!” 612 […]
We’ve seen the ads that are so different, it’s hard to tell whether they are talking about the same person. But Gavin Newsom is the focus and is on the hot seat, in an election with a total of 46 candidates. Even with all the candidates, this is an election on whether our current governor […]
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by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Is it time to rethink the notion that marijuana—long considered a relatively “safe” method of altering one’s consciousness—is harmless? According to health professionals and a raft of recent studies, the answer is most definitely yes. Ever since folks started keeping track of such things (after all, […]
The Claremont Museum of Art Fall Gala returns to the Claremont Depot lawn on Saturday, September 18. This year’s theme, “Imagine,” celebrates the completion of two new galleries in the historic building, as the museum is reimagined to include more walls for more art, more programs and more people. The evening festivities will be highlighted […]
Claremonters Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat were living and working in Manhattan on 9/11. They were in their home in midtown but the magazine they worked for was located in the skyscraper behind the historic Trinity Church at the end of Wall Street, just three blocks from the Twin Towers. After they found out their colleagues had been safely evacuated from the area, they wrote a prayer poem called “Rest in Peace” about the tragedy.
On Tuesday, the COURIER dropped by Everett’s Shoe Repair unannounced to chat with its new owner, Victor Ojeda, a shoe repairman from Los Angeles who wants to keep the shoe repair industry alive. “The craft that we do here, how you repair a shoe, and how you can bring back to life a really old pair of shoes…some people call it…an art that not so many can do anymore,” he said. “I wanted to give it a life and keep [it] going.”
Claremont has a long tradition of preserving the hillsides above the city, and one environmental advocacy group would like to add the proposed Clara Oaks development land to the list.
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