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Claremont High School hosted the SoCal Trades Tour Wednesday. The event offered students a chance to connect with potential employers and explore future career paths. It featured 35 organizations looking to hire. Beyond job opportunities, the fair provided students with valuable experience speaking to real recruiters in interview-like settings. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
“I’ve a sagebrush garden, walled in by a mountain range.” Those are the opening lines of the poem “My Sagebrush Garden” by Sarah Bixby-Smith, from the book of poems of the same title published in 1924. She would write five books of poems, most while living in Claremont, in addition to three non-fiction books, chief among those the 1925, “Adobe Days: A Book of California Memories.”
Monique Saigal Escudero went from a 3-year-old child hiding from Nazi soldiers in a small French village during World War II, to an accomplished author and Pomona College professor. Now 86, she will share her dramatic history in a free and open to the public talk at 7 p.m., Thursday, March 27 at Claremont Heritage’s Ginger Elliott Center, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education presented outgoing Claremont Police Department Chief Aaron Fate with its “You Are the Commitment” award at its March 6 meeting. “This award means a lot to me,” Fate told the Courier. “One of the most fulfilling chapters of my career was working as a DARE officer directly with the fine folks at Claremont Unified School District, so having this recognition from them gets me right in the heart. It’s much appreciated.” Courier file photo
Congratulations to Charlotte Van Ryswyk, one of five readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as Aldo Casanova’s 2002 sculpture, “Genesis,” at California Botanic Garden. Charlotte is now entered into the year-end drawing for a one-year subscription to everyone’s favorite award-winning local newspaper, the Claremont Courier. 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
“After five decades in the publishing business, one thing remains true: no two days are ever the same. Covering the news is inherently unpredictable, making each workday unique. Journalism isn’t a nine-to-five job — whether you’re at the New York Times or the Claremont Courier. And one has to be prepared to handle anything thrown your way. Sometimes literally.”
hursday’s free and open to the public state of the city address by Claremont Mayor Corey Calaycay begins at noon at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 555 W. Foothill Blvd. The event will also include remarks from the City Council. It will be preceded at 11 a.m. by a closed to the public ticketed Claremont […]
“I gotta hand it to the Trump administration: they’re getting results. We’re overwhelmed. The ‘flood the zone’ ‘muzzle velocity’ upending of American institutions, traditions, and norms outlined clearly in their dystopian playbook, Project 2025 — which candidate Trump repeatedly distanced himself from — has by design left us in a dizzying state of churning anxiety.”
A man in his 50s died Tuesday afternoon after collapsing on the east side of Monte Vista Avenue just south of Base Line Road. Witnesses called the Claremont Police Department at 3:30 to report seeing a man that had been walking collapsing on the sidewalk. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
The Woman’s Club of Claremont is celebrating its 100-year anniversary with an open house at 5 p.m. on March 27 at its clubhouse, 343 W. 12th St.
Some 40 volunteers planted camphor saplings at Citrus and Baldy View elementary schools in Upland on Saturday. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Three tense hours after receiving a call about a possible active shooter with a bomb, police lifted a shelter in place order at Claremont McKenna College at 7:30 p.m. Thursday after a multi-agency search turned up no gunman or weapon. Police suspect the 4:44 p.m. call was a case of “swatting.” Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
The City of Claremont has changed the March 20 state of the city address by Claremont Mayor Corey Calaycay from a ticketed event to a special meeting of the City Council in order to comply with the Brown Act, and reduced the cost of admission from $80 to free. The 11 a.m. Thursday, March 20, event at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 555 W. Foothill Blvd., will also include remarks from the City Council. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
“In the old story, God was not in the fierce wind, nor the crushing earthquake, nor the fire. God was the gentle whisper, the still, small voice. Life, lately, has felt like a tornado. An earthquake appears to have split this country into two completely separate, unrecognizable halves. This split runs right through my family.” Photo/by David Zawila
Claremont McKenna College President Hiram Chodosh announced last week that he will step down by the end of the 2025-2026 academic year, his 13th as president.
Tickets are $80, or $60 for Claremont Chamber of Commerce members, to hear Claremont Mayor Corey Calaycay’s state of the city address at 11 a.m. Thursday, March 20, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 555 W. Foothill Blvd.
The City of Upland’s annual free and open to the public Irish Festival opens at 5 p.m. Friday, March 14 and noon Saturday, March 15, closing at 11 p.m. both days, in downtown Upland near 305 N. Second Ave.