‘Folk music’ is tough to pin down

by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com Most picture a solitary singer/songwriter with a dreadnaught acoustic guitar singing earnest protest songs. The truth is it’s a panoply of styles and instrumentation. Its roots go back much further than the...

Police Blotter 1-8-21

Tuesday, December 29 Claremont Police Department officers on patrol at 7:45 p.m. saw a white Toyota Camry parked at the Chevron gas station at Indian Hill Blvd. and San Jose Ave. They ran a records check on the car and discovered it had been reported stolen out of Los...
Obituary: Peggy Ericson

Obituary: Peggy Ericson

Wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Peggy Ericson died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 in her home. She had celebrated her 95th birthday the prior week. Margaret (Peggy) was born to Ernest and Doris on December 2 in Tampa, Florida,...
Obituary: Jerald Bert Laird

Obituary: Jerald Bert Laird

Beloved patriarch, U.S. Navy veteran, construction company executive, outdoorsman, sharpshooter Jerald Bert Laird, of Rancho Cucamonga, left for a joyous reunion with his parents, sister and extended family on December 23, 2020. He was born February 12, 1935 in Jesup,...