Obituary: Jan Robertson

Longtime Danbury School teacher, pioneering single mother, traveler, matriarch In the 1960s and ‘70s, Jan Robertson always owned a large station wagon. The wagon was convenient for hauling the occasional bookshelf or bicycle, but its main purpose was to...
Today’s Claremont news & upcoming reminders

Today’s Claremont news & upcoming reminders

by Kathryn Dunn | editor@claremont-courier.com OUR LITTLE THEATER A friend sent me a link to a commercial real estate ad this week—Claremont Laemmle theater is for sale. The disappointment sank in quickly. The innumerable movie dates I have shared with my now...

Sharing life stories to break down barriers

[Editor’s note: Charlene Leavell grew up in Taft, California, a very small oil town 40 miles south of Bakersfield. At 18, she left to attend college in Fullerton, where she earned a bachelor’s in social sciences in 1977, followed by a career as an...