Loving wife and mother, Latin scholar Jane Barr, a longtime resident of the Mt. San Antonio Gardens retirement community in Claremont, died on August 7, 2016. She was 89. She was born February 18, 1927 in Perth, Scotland to James and Catherine Hepburn. Dux (i.e., “top...
by Jamie Lawlor Recently, a black student at the Claremont Colleges, Karé Ureña, and a roommate, received national news coverage for specifying “people of color only” in their ad for a roommate on the school’s Facebook page. I’ll...
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is the site of a creative new exhibit exploring the intersection of botany and cinema. “On Location: California Native Plants in the Movies” is on view through October 23. The first component of the show is an exhibit housed...
A group of residents has banded together, ready to go to bat for a $58 million school facilities bond measure that will go before Claremont voters this November. Every advocacy organization needs an acronym and they’ve come up with a catchy one, RISE—Renew...
After receiving a grant of more than $400,000 in June, the city of Claremont is in the beginning stages of using the funds to develop a swath of land directly south of the railroad tracks. The project, dubbed the Indian Hill Corridor Specific Plan—formerly...
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