Church’s Nativity homage to Black lives

Church’s Nativity homage to Black lives

The Claremont United Methodist Church’s Nativity scene for 2020 shows the Holy Family posed against a backdrop of masked protesters symbolizing the church’s solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The church has a tradition for creating Nativities...

Local hospital in ‘internal disaster mode’

by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com Southern California hospitals are filling up with coronavirus patients so quickly that many are at the breaking point and have begun putting off care for people with non-critical ailments or injuries. On Wednesday...

The gift of traditions

by John Neiuber On December 21st at 7:00 pm, Claremont Heritage will present its virtual holiday program, The Gift of Traditions – A Claremont Heritage Carol.  The program will be broadcast free on YouTube.  Traditionally, Heritage presents a holiday...

Obituary: Leanne Bauman Kerchner

Teacher, mother, friend Leanne Bauman Kerchner died November 27, four days after suffering a massive stroke. Her children—Paige Kaplan and Charles A. Kerchner—and her husband, Chuck, were with her as she passed. She was 79 and had lived in Claremont for...