Opinion

by Ann Croissant Claremont has a serious watershed problem. Claremont has a serious conservation problem. In fact, the entire County of Los Angeles has serious watershed and conservation problems. That’s why cities in the San Gabriel Valley are looking to Claremont for leadership on these intertwined issues, made all the more important due to the […]

by Pamela Casey Nagler School’s out, and that means our schools have completed yet another year of standardized testing. What this should mean, in an education town like Claremont, is that we will be evaluating these tests before we start gearing up for the next round. However, I’m not sure that this will happen. In […]

Water mandate discriminates Dear Editor: I fully agree with Chet and Eileen Jaeger’s letter published June 5 that the upcoming water-saving plan discriminates against conscientious, civic-minded residents who have already implemented water-saving ideas, something we were asked to do voluntarily years ago. The 32 percent reduction favors those homeowners who are responsible for Claremont having […]

by John Pixley   No, I haven’t seen the Hall of Fame. I have never been downstairs. And I didn’t know that Winston Churchill had been there. My friend had returned from using the restroom at Bridges Auditorium, and, although I thought “Wow!” when he told me that a picture of Winston Churchill is among […]

by Kirk Delman The Claremont Colleges have built outstanding gallery programs and collections for many years that have enhanced our community’s rich artistic legacy.  The Florence Rand Lang Gallery at Scripps opened in 1939 followed by the Gladys K. Montgomery Gallery at Pomona in 1958. Every artist that the city of Claremont has embraced as […]

Which street in Claremont is the most historic? Is it Indian Hill Boulevard, a path used by the local Native Americans and where the first white settler built a cabin there near 11th Street? The Alvarado family built their adobe at what is now Memorial Park and the founder of Claremont, Henry Austin Palmer, built […]

by Jim Elssaser, Claremont Unified School District superintendent The 2014-2015 school year has been very exciting for staff and students throughout Claremont Unified School District. Teachers have spent tireless hours creating and teaching new units of study aligned to the California Standards, formerly known as the Common Core State Standards.  Throughout the spring, students in […]

Water savings Dear Editor: This letter is in response to Chet and Eileen Jaeger’s “Water Woes” letter published in last week’s COURIER, as well as Bob Gerecke’s letter of concern about the fairness of the required 32 percent reduction in water use. I am able to reduce our water use by more than 32 percent […]

by Debbie Carini William Butler Yeats wrote, “How can we know the dancer from the dance?” That’s easy: if you’re looking for me on the dance floor, I’m the one trying to push my poor husband all over the place. I can’t help it. It’s like Fred Astaire famously sang (and Sammy Cahn and James […]

Water woes [Editor’s note:?The following letter was addressed to Golden State Water Company, with a copy forwarded for publication. —KD] Dear Editor: I have just received the Important Drought Notice and am very upset. I have lived in Claremont since August 1931 and my wife has lived here since January 1946, when we were married. […]

  by Richard Haskell, Sustainable Claremont DRIP   Contemplating your monthly water bill? Is it bigger than your former bill? Want to eliminate your lawn, but by all means keep your trees? Or do you simply want to do the right thing in the 21st century in southern California and install a beautiful sustainable garden? […]

by John Pixley   “And I hate change!” my friend joked. Actually, he was only half-joking. We were talking over lunch in the dining hall at a camp in the Santa Monica Mountains behind Malibu.  It was Memorial Day weekend, and we were at a gathering that had been at the camp every year for […]

Contemplating Claremont Dear Editor: We moved to Claremont from Glendora three years ago. Before that, both my wife and I worked for years in her business and my private practice in Claremont. I’m thinking about this tonight after two glasses of wine, so I’m more openly nostalgic than usual. What a community we have here […]

Tutti Frutti by Mellissa Martinez   The variety of fruit that once thrived in Claremont and surrounding areas left its mark in names such as Orange County, the grapevine and Pomona, a city that derived its name from the goddess of fruit. One of the wonderful things about living in such a fertile area is […]

by YouYoung Kang, Claremont resident and associate professor at Scripps College Last week, students throughout the Claremont Unified School District started taking the state-mandated Common Core examinations in the English-language arts and mathematics on iPads purchased specifically for the purpose of testing.  For the past year, CUSD has been holding informational sessions for parents on […]

Pomona’s museum of art Dear Editor: Besides being incredibly ugly, this new building would cause significant traffic and parking problems. It would be a shame to replace lovely old structures with this monstrosity. As a graduate of Claremont High School, secretary of the CHS alumni association, a former employee of Claremont Public Library and a […]