Time to get a haircut and dinner in Claremont

Hair salons and barbershops can reopen and in-person dining in restaurants can resume immediately with safeguards as Los Angeles County moves forward on the Roadmap to Recovery.   The State of California today approved the County’s request for a variance to...

Weekly newspapers close as economy sours

by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com The story is the same all across the country. Local community newspapers continue to merge, purge or simply disappear, as the nation’s economy continues its freefall from Covid-19. The real losers are the...
Obituary: Patricia Ann (Patti) Brant

Obituary: Patricia Ann (Patti) Brant

Beloved mother, grandmother, educator Patricia Ann (Patti) Brant, beloved mother and friend, died April 30, in New Haven, Connecticut. She was 74. She was born December 14, 1945, in Long Beach, California, to Opal and Ralph Thayer. Patti lived in Upland and Mt. Baldy...
Obituary: James Joseph Lamb

Obituary: James Joseph Lamb

Peace and civil rights activist, educator James Joseph Lamb, aged 92, died May 15 at Pilgrim Place retirement community in Claremont. He was born in 1927 (the same year as Charles Lindbergh’s famous transatlantic flight) to a working class Irish Catholic family...

The economy and the stock market—the great disconnect?

By Don Gould It is often said that the economy is not the stock market, and vice versa. Never has that seemed truer. In the economy we have witnessed an unimaginable explosion in unemployment, the byproduct of lockdowns to slow the Covid pandemic. Thirty-nine million...