The Los Angeles County Fire Department and US Forest Service are battling two brush fires north of Azusa and Duarte in the Angeles National Forest. The fire is in the area of Highway 39 and Morris Dam. Smoke can be seen from the Claremont area however there is...
It was not only record heat on Monday reaching 108 degrees, but wildfires west of Claremont impacted air quality as huge clouds of smoke covered the Southland. Early in the evening a full “strawberry moon” popped up from the horizon, colored in deep red...
Donald James Ketchum, a longtime Chaffey College professor and onetime resident of the Claremont Manor retirement community, died in Sandpoint, Idaho on May 25, 2016. He was 93. He was born on February 9, 1923 in South Pasadena to Dr. William and Mabel Ketchum. Don...
As Claremont suffers through record-breaking temperatures, the city is offering designated cool zones around town for residents who want to beat the heat. Four locations are available for Claremonters who wish to seek refuge during the triple-digit heat wave,...
City staff are the pacesetters Dear Editor: Peter Weinberger, the publisher of the COURIER, is misinformed as to the cause of slow pace, as he sees it, of the Mayor’s Police Facility Ad Hoc Committee. It is not my place to defend the committee, but the sand in...
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