by Al Villanueva The El Barrio Park public art project was initiated in 2017 by former Claremont City Council member Sam Pedroza, when he approached me as chairperson of the Arbol Verde Preservation Committee with an idea to paint a mural of the city’s first Catholic...
Congratulations to Valerie Card, one of six readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as the mask sculptures above the door to Vintage Odyssey and Noren’s Nursery at 201 Bonita Ave., Claremont. Valerie is now entered into the year-end drawing for a...
Great-grandmother, professor, champion of Claremont artists, CLMA was 100 Marguerite Loyau McIntosh led a long and remarkable life full of art and culture, from Paris to Claremont. She died peacefully at age 100 on November 22 at her home in Mt. San Antonio Gardens. A...
Beloved matriarch, great-grandmother, traveler, Realtor Anna Sylvia Platte, known to family and friends as Sylvia, died peacefully on November 19. Born on February 26, 1934, in Roseville, Michigan, she was the sixth of 14 children. Sylvia attended St. Gertrude’s High...
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Sunday, November 23 Claremont Police Department officers were pursuing a car for speeding when it collided with the center median near Foothill Boulevard and College Avenue at 1:24 a.m. Police said the driver, a...
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