Christmas tree collection continues through Friday

The city of Claremont will continue collecting holiday trees for recycling through Friday, January 13. Residents are reminded to remove everything from the tree, including the stand. Place the bare tree at the curbside by 6 a.m. on your regular trash collection day....

Cottages starting to come down

Workers are now a full week into the process of tearing down the cottage homes at the corner of Bonita and College avenues. They have gutted all four residences and have taken the roof off of two as of Tuesday. Demolition is the first step in getting the site ready...

Obituary: Beatrice Braun

Beatrice Braun, mother of Karen, Felicia and Rebecca Kornbluh, will be buried at Oak Park Cemetery (410 Sycamore Ave. in Claremont) at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. There will be a gathering at 470 W. Eighth St. in Claremont directly after the graveside...
Obituary: Shirley Abrams

Obituary: Shirley Abrams

Loving wife and mother, education advocate Shirley Abrams, a longtime Pomona resident and active member of Temple Beth Israel, died in Pomona on January 1, 2017. She was 82. She was born on February 28, 1934 in Twin Falls, Idaho and lived there until she was 10 years...

Taking a leap into theater

by John Pixley   Did I have the right theater? That’s what I was thinking. It was like I had gone to see a movie and I had gone into the wrong theater at the multiplex. Except not only was I not at the multiplex; I wasn’t seeing a movie. I was...