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Claremont High School’s Marching Band and Color Guard will compete in the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association Field Band Championships for the first time since 2003 at 3 p.m. Saturday, November 23 at Long Beach City College’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. “It is an incredible honor for us to be able to represent Claremont at this level again,” said CHS Instrumental Music Director Burke Shouse. Photo/courtesy of Burke Shouse

After more than eight years of acrimonious litigation, The Claremont Colleges Services closed escrow November 15 on the 16-acre former home of the Claremont School of Theology. The sale price was $7.7 million. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo

Police responded to an altercation at Claremont High School Tuesday, resulting in a “soft lockdown” on campus following news of a student’s death in an early morning auto accident on Saturday, November 16. Police have not yet released the name of the deceased CHS student. Courier file photo

The Kiwanis Club of Claremont’s annual pop-up See’s Candies store opened Monday at the former Hibbard Auto Center location, 191 S. Indian Hill Blvd.

Part II: the Wall Street empire strikes back By Donald Gould | Special to the Courier This is the second in a three-part series of reflections on changes in the investment industry in the 25 years since I started Gould Asset Management in Claremont. In part one of this series, I described how core investment […]

Pomona College received a joint letter last week from the American Civil Liberties Union, among others, asserting the school’s recent suspension of 10 students for the academic year due to their alleged participation in a October 7 protest at Carnegie Hall may have violated their rights, and that a lawsuit may be filed to challenge the decision. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger

“When you’re young and work in a restaurant, your co-workers become family. There’s something about the physically demanding, high stress environment that brings people together. I had co-workers who were not so secretly in love with one another, others who were rivals, some were destined for greatness, others tragic ends.”

A fast-moving cold front blew through Southern California Thursday and early Friday bringing cool temperatures, a quarter inch of rain to Claremont and six inches of snow in the higher elevations of the Mt. Baldy area. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger

More than 200 people were on hand at Claremont Graduate University’s President’s House on November 10 as Claremont After School Programs, more commonly, CLASP, honored volunteers including Jim Keith for their service to the educational nonprofit. Keith has served CLASP for many years as a tutor coordinator, site supervisor, and board member. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger

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“Many on the left will want to blame someone, but today I’m not feeling like there is anyone to blame. Kamala Harris couldn’t have made her position and her character any clearer. Neither could Donald Trump. There is much that both sides don’t want to see or understand about the other. The people have spoken; the Republicans won and now we have to figure out how to move forward, how to live with one another, how to find what’s good in one another, how to be the United States.”

Longtime Claremont resident Sandi Kaneko, owner of Sandi Kaneko Interiors, will be featured this Saturday, November 16 on the HGTV series “House Hunters Renovation.” The episode is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. on HGTV, viewable on Spectrum channel 160, Dish channel 112, DirecTV channel 229, and Verizon Fios channel 165. Episodes can also be […]

Congratulations to Katherine Leff, who was chosen at random among the 20 readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as “Indian Maiden,” the striking 1940 piece by renowned 20th century Claremont sculptor Albert Stewart, located outside Padua Hills Theatre. So, “Where am I” this week? Email your answer, full name, and city of residence — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to contest@claremont-courier.com for your chance to win. Courier photo/Tom Smith

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory has stoked worry and disappointment among many in the Claremont Colleges community, according to students and faculty. While the Colleges maintain a progressive streak and many wanted to see Harris in the White House, some students were unsurprised by the results. Photo/courtesy of Pomona College

Claremont Courier event calendar: November 15-23, 2024

Sheryl Oring brought her “I Wish to Say” postcard writing project to the Claremont Colleges on Wednesday, and dozens of students and faculty came out to express their feelings about President-elect Donald Trump. Martha Gonzalez, an associate professor of Chicanx-Latinx studies at Scripps, said she wrote, “He’s an idiot and he’s an imbecile. That he’s a racist. That I want him to keep his hands off our bodies, women’s bodies, and to free Palestine.” Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo