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Images so powerful it will make you laugh, cry, think, and visualize the beauty of a city full of life and history. This coffee table, photo-driven book gives the reader a birds-eye-view of the people and places that make Claremont such a unique and special place to live. Now you can preview pages of the book online and see why it’s become so popular. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
Claremont has a long tradition of preserving the hillsides above the city, and one environmental advocacy group would like to add the proposed Clara Oaks development land to the list.
In two weeks, the Pomona Fairplex will host a downsized version of the Los Angeles County Fair appropriately called the Bite-Sized Fair.
Lizeth Hernandez, right, listens to the introductionary remarks of Community Groundwork Executive Director Mike Ceraso during a mixer for the non-profit last Thursday in Claremont. The start-up trains community college students in the mechanisms of politics and matches them with mentors with the goal of finding employment. Ms. Hernandez is one of 17 students who have completed Community Groundwork’s 20-hour coursework and aspires to become an elected official.
Coinciding with the day it opened 20 years ago, the Latino Art Museum in Pomona reopened on Saturday after shutting down due to COVID-19 restrictions a year and five months ago. Although about 100 people came to witness the historic gallery’s reopening, LAM founder and former director, Graciela Nardi, was not there for the milestone. Sadly, she passed away in December 2020.
Now that the COURIER has successfully received nonprofit status from the state of California and the IRS, we have been working on setting up a business model to increase our ability to qualify for local news grants, while being able to accept tax deductible donations.
When Nangy Ghafarshad and his wife Fahima were watching the news late one night and saw pictures of the Afghanistan people under siege by the Taliban, all they could do was weep.
Part two of two: After Claremont resident Abbie Moore, who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community, had a Pride flag stolen from her home in June, she posted about the incident on social media to alert the community. Usually a private person, Ms. Moore said she wrote about her situation on the Facebook group Claremont Connects not only because she was ‘rattled’ but also because she wanted to know if other neighbors had experienced something similar.
Created as a serene environment for students and faculty 100 years ago, it has long been a center point for college and community activity since completion in 1923.
Imagine in the era before social media, an enterprising youth sitting in a converted garage pounding out news of the neighborhood on a manual typewriter. A stack of notes sits on the desk while a fan oscillates in the corner, occasionally blowing some errant sheet of paper onto the floor. The adolescent pauses from typing, grabbing a notepad and a pen to jot down a flashing idea.
Ms. Bustamante has no idea how she contracted the coronavirus. Her family exercised extreme caution throughout the pandemic and she worked from home, rarely going out. Her husband Edward did most of the shopping so perhaps he contacted the virus at the grocery store. He, too, became sick but had a mild case.
Claremont Unified School District’s wide-ranging capital improvement projects are now complete, five years after voters approved the $58 million in general obligation bonds that funded them.
Claremont’s Bob Forrest has counseled hundreds of addicts and users of the incredibly powerful synthetic opioid drug fentanyl over the past five years.
“They’re seeking out this experience,” said Mr. Forrest, a renowned addiction counselor. Addicts are looking to duplicate the euphoric, joyous hits of dopamine that occur naturally.
Claremont Police Sergeant Hector Tamayo will be retiring from the department after 17 years of service. Sergeant Tamayo was a Ventura County Sheriff deputy for five years before joining CPD as a police officer in 2004. After six years with CPD, he was promoted to corporal, spending several of those years as a detective. In […]
What preventative interventions are in place at Claremont Unified School District for students who are actively using, or are curious about using, fentanyl, the massively potent synthetic opioid suspected to be responsible for the June 1 death of rising Claremont High sophomore Chloe Kreutzer? Unfortunately, not many. The district has for many years hosted a high-profile yearly drunk driving prevention program, Every 15 Minutes.
At 4 p.m. Saturday, Karie Krouse hosted a memorial service for her daughter Chloe Kreutzer, now forever 15, above. The rising Claremont High School sophomore died June 1 of a suspected drug overdose.
Her friends say a single fentanyl-laced counterfeit Percocet pill was the cause, one she obtained from a 2021 CHS graduate.
The results of a toxicology report of a second pill found in her backpack by officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s San Dimas substation, the city in which Chloe died, are pending. An investigation into her death is also underway, police say.
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