Sage advice for your water-wise garden

With the ongoing drought and escalating water costs, more and more people are opting to substitute water-wise plants for thirsty ones. In many cases, they are choosing as replacements native plants, the kind that have grown in the area for time untold. Here in...

CHS mom helps make impact to offset costs of prom

Prom can be high school’s most storied night. A sea of girls in fancy dresses and their sharply dressed dates, dancing the night away and creating a memory thatwill last a lifetime. For many Claremont High School parents, however, financial challenges and family...
Are you ready for the Taste of Claremont?

Are you ready for the Taste of Claremont?

The Rotary Club of Claremont will hold its 16th annual Taste of Claremont event on Saturday, April 25 from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Claremont University Consortium Building on First Street and Mills Avenue. This is Claremont Rotary’s pinnacle funding event and one of...
Chris Stelzer

Chris Stelzer

Engineer, family man, practical joker Christopher Alan Stelzer died on February 3, 2015 from complications following surgery. He was 43. Mr. Stelzer graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, after receiving a full scholarship to study mechanical...

Not all that nice and shady under the trees

by John Pixley Last summer, I wrote a column pretty much about a tree.  There had been two or three articles in these pages about the tree, which was on Seventh Street and well over 100 years old and had been badly damaged. Despite a good deal of effort, it...