Editors Picks
With her ebullient personality and ever-present smile, 2013 Claremont High School graduate and Olympic medalist Brittany Brown really knows how to connect with the community that helped set her on her path. Brown, who came home from the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games with a bronze medal in the 200 meters, was honored by the city with a parade and rally on Wednesday. See our coverage from the big day. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
“Isn’t Israel, in how it is conducting its campaign to destroy Hamas, combined with the steady stream of images of dead innocent Palestinian children flooding our social media feeds, very likely creating a far more dangerous enemy?”
Seventeen-year-old Vivian Webb School senior Jenny Wang, co-editor-in-chief of the Webb Canyon Chronicle, captain of the school’s debate team and co-ed badminton squad, and podcaster, can now add “published author” to her already bulging resume. Her first book, “Universal Faith: Conversations with 15 Religious Leaders in Southern California,” was published August 29 and is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Photo/by Emily Li
A woman wearing a sleek suit with a ruffled shirt and bow tie sits on a stool on a stage, holding a guitar. As the lights go up, her fingers begin to fly up and down the neck as her right hand plucks the strings in a blur, releasing the notes of a soul-stirring flamenco song. The musician is Charo, whose guitar virtuosity has been one of pop culture’s best-kept (or perhaps most-ignored) secrets. But she’s aiming to change that. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 16 she’ll debut a new guitar-centric show at Lewis Family Playhouse, 12505 Cultural Center Dr., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739. Tickets are more info are at cityofrc.us/events. Photo/courtesy of Reyes Entertainment
It was difficult to comprehend what I was seeing in that Lake Tahoe hotel room back in 1993. We’d had a few beers and shared a joint, and things were a little fuzzy. “This is a hold-up,” read the note, handwritten on neatly folded yellow legal paper. “You will not be harmed … Put the money in the envelop … Keep smiling – be quick … There is two of us.” He would hand that note to a bank teller and stand there calmly while she — it was always a woman, he said — crammed stacks of bills into a manila envelope. That kind of risk — and cruelty — was as foreign to me as I could imagine. I’d never been so close to a criminal before, and this one was my father.
Claremont-based nonprofit Parents Anonymous celebrated the third anniversary of its California Parent and Youth Helpline on May 9. The free help line serves parents and children of all ages who need emotional support or mental health services, information, or access to Parents Anonymous’ weekly therapy groups.
Nadia Murad has had a busy year. Last month she sat down with Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly. In February she met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. And that’s not all.
Claremont High School alumna Kristina Leopold, 28, is living the dream. The Claremont native recently moved to New York City to begin work as an alternate in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical “SIX.”
In 1993, Gabby Giffords graduated from Scripps College with a B.A. in sociology and Latin American history. Eighteen years later, she had just begun her third term as an Arizona Congresswoman when on January 8, 2011, while speaking at a “Congress on Your Corner” event in Tucson, she survived a gunshot to the head. Six people were killed and 13 others injured in the mass shooting.
Giffords, who now runs an eponymous gun-safety advocacy group, embarked on a difficult and ongoing road to recovery, captured in the recently released documentary “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down.”
The COURIER has selected four local high school competitors as its outstanding athletes of the season for fall 2022. Students from both Webb and Claremont High School were named to the inaugural cohort.
Sometimes it’s important to stop and take a breath when assessing how a company is meeting its goals and challenges. That’s especially true for a nonprofit trying to make a difference in Claremont. On the surface for the Claremont COURIER, the good news is many things are also staying the same. The print edition continues to be delivered on Friday, the website is updated almost every day to stay on top of breaking news, our popular email newsletter is sent Thursday nights, each month we have a special edition inserted in the newspaper, and we continue our presence on social media, focusing on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter (although we will evaluate if Twitter is still worthwhile as Elon Musk sinks the platform).
Things had never been easy for Joshua Duncan. It was 2018, and the Kingman, Arizona boy was, once again, having trouble at home. He’d already tried weed in an effort to both fit in with his friends and numb his pain and anger. One day he took it further and smoked some methamphetamine. That first hit of meth set in motion a four-year slide that only recently — with the help of family and a pair of extremely dedicated City of Montclair Homeless Outreach and Enforcement Team officers — seems to have abated.
In August 1939, 10-year-old Jerry Lindenstraus and his Jewish family of eight arrived at the port of Shanghai, China carrying some luggage, German family heirlooms, and fears about their future. Jerry’s spirit remained animated as he inhaled the steamy summer air and surveyed the boisterous crowd of Asian faces. He and his family were then taken to the Jewish refugee center via trucks –– nine of the 18,000 Jews who sought refuge in Shanghai during the terrible rise of Nazi Germany.
After months of pleading with the city for action on a special ordinance to curb criminal activity emanating from motels near the 10 Freeway, numerous residents from south Claremont attended the Claremont Planning Commission on Tuesday to urge it to reject its proposed ordinance.
I am writing to clarify some misconceptions about the various forms of cannabis that may be preventing an informed and meaningful dialogue. This article is limited to the potential medical benefits for adults. Whereas our body’s nervous and endocrine systems were discovered thousands of years ago, it was only in 1988 that the endocannabinoid system was discovered. According to “The Discovery of the Endocannabinoid System” in the Medical Cannabis Handbook for Healthcare Professionals, it is “the largest receptor system and the master regulator of homeostasis in the human body … acting as a chemical bridge between body and mind. It regulates blood sugar, immune function, muscle and fat tissues, hormones, pain centers, reward centers, and metabolic functions.”
Gloria and Frederick Williams know how to celebrate an anniversary. At the tender ages of 97, (Frederick) and 95, the couple celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary on August 25 along Williams Avenue in Claremont. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
The story of the nonprofit Economy Shop thrift store is as old as well, nine decades. Deep into the Great Depression, in 1933 four Claremont women banded together to create a place where residents could obtain low-cost clothing and housing supplies. Now 90 years later, the Economy Shop will once again open its doors for the season on Wednesday, August 31.