Andrus receives award at League annual meeting

Georgeann Andrus of the League of Women Voters is the 2018 Carolyn Beatty Award winner. The award is presented annually to a League member who has promoted the Claremont chapter’s goals and messages, the League said in a release. The award honors Carolyn Beatty,...
Palm feels the burn from weekend weather

Palm feels the burn from weekend weather

A very hot weekend in Claremont took a crazy turn toward the dramatic as a quick thunderstorm blew through the area Saturday afternoon. The quick moving system also brought lightening that struck the middle of a large palm tree near Indian Hill Boulevard and 8th...

Obituary: Nancy Hewitt Magnussen

Wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend Longtime Claremont resident Nancy Elizabeth Hewitt Magnusson died July 1 at age 82. She was born August 11, 1935, and grew up in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. As a youth she enjoyed spending time in Traverse City, on the shore of...

Claremont Rocks (part 2)

When one considers it, one is struck with the knowledge that the landscape we sit upon is the result of violent forces of nature—the Pacific plate and the North American plate thrusting the San Gabriels skyward, the movement of the many earthquake faults and the...

Obituary: Hal Kent Platts

One of 17 siblings, longtime Claremonter, dedicated father, friend, volunteer   Twenty-seven year Claremont resident Hal Kent Platts died July 2 at the age of 82. Mr. Platts was born on Friday the 13th in September, 1935 in Lyman, Wyoming. He was the 16th of 17...