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After more than eight years of acrimonious litigation, The Claremont Colleges Services closed escrow November 15 on the 16-acre former home of the Claremont School of Theology. The sale price was $7.7 million. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Active Claremont hosts a free and open to the public forum with City Council candidates at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 19 at Alexander Hughes Community Center; On Thursday, September 26 Claremont Chamber of Commerce hosts a 1 p.m. City Council candidate forum at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 555 W. Foothill Blvd., Claremont., and Active Claremont hosts a free and open to the public 7 p.m. town hall meeting with CUSD Trustee Area 5 candidate Cheryl Fiello at Alexander Hughes Community Center.
Claremont After-School Programs hosted a welcome back ice cream social at Claremont Presbyterian Church on September 5. CLASP board members Maury Feingold, right, emeriti member and past president Frank D’Emilio and community members learned about programs and tutoring opportunities.
Wednesday was the critical day for firefighters to save Mt. Baldy Village from the Bridge Fire. By setting up a series of perimeters west of the village, most of the small town that had not seen a fire in a century was saved. The fire has burned 51,167 acres as of Thursday morning. Courier photos/Peter […]
The Bridge Fire continues to advance toward foothill cities, with residents in north Claremont around Fergus Falls and Mt. Baldy having been advised to prepare to evacuate. The fire — now the largest burning in the state of California at 47,904 acres — burned some 13,000 acres overnight Tuesday and impacting structures in Wrightwood, including damage to the power infrastructure there. Thus far it has destroyed 20 homes in the Mt. Baldy area, and is currently backing down the slopes near Mt. Baldy Road, threatening additional structures there. Photo/by Alex McDonald
The Bridge Fire “continued to exhibit extreme fire behavior” overnight Tuesday, according to fire officials, burning some 13,000 acres and impacting structures in Wrightwood, including damage to the power infrastructure there. The fire had grown to 47,904 acres as of 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Photo/by Alex McDonald
Claremont Heritage and Los Angeles-based nonprofit Nosotros are putting the Hispanic community front and center days after the start of Hispanic Heritage Month with Una Noche de Nuestra Cultura (“A Night of Our Culture”) Wednesday, September 18 at Padua Hills Theatre. The event is meant to enlighten folks about the city’s rich Hispanic roots, according to Claremont Heritage Executive Director David Shearer. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
The Bridge Fire grew overnight from 2,995 acres to 3,786 acres, but some 300 firefighters held it within its perimeter, with support continuing to arrive. It remains 0% contained. California Interagency Incident Management Team 5 assumed command of the fire at 7 a.m. Tuesday, following a sustained effort by U.S. Forest Service Quick Reaction Force night-flying helicopters, which dropped fire retardant on the blaze for more than five hours overnight. Photo/courtesy of USFS
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department officials ordered the evacuation of all residents north of the San Antonio Dam up to Mt. Baldy Resort late Monday afternoon after the Bridge Fire more than doubled in size in a matter of hours, going from 1,225 acres at 1 p.m. to 2,995 acres by 7:30. The blaze remains 0% contained, with high temperatures and strong winds continuing to aid in its expansion. Photo/by Catherine McIntosh
Though the Bridge Fire has rendered the sky in Claremont a sickly yellow and the air is thick with ash, the U.S. Forest Service reports structures in the City of Trees and the unincorporated areas directly northwest of town are not in danger. Photo/courtesy of U.S.F.S.
The voices of Claremont High School alumni will soon deliver a musically charged love letter to CHS’ Theatre Department’s first director, the late Don Frederick Fruechte, who died last month. Alums from 1968 to 2020 will join forces from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, September 15 for “From Claremont to 42nd Street,” a benefit concert for the Don F. Fruechte Arts Fund, which provides financial assistance for CHS students to participate in the arts, at Scripps College’s Garrison Theater, 231 E. 10th St., Claremont. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
A fast moving fire near the Glendora Mountain Road in the San Gabriel Canyon, seen from Grand Avenue in Claremont, continued to burn into the night as firefighters attempted to get control of the growing 200-acre blaze. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
“I grew up envying friends who could trace their families back through the generations. Not knowing anything about my family made me feel untethered, temporary, invisible even, like I didn’t have a story. But now I feel connected to my ancestors, to this country, to the earth. My family has become a tangible thing and an unexpected, deeply gratifying gift.”
Claremont Unified School District Assistant Superintendent, Student Services Kevin Ward informed the community via email that a female El Roble student walking home after school Wednesday near Condit Elementary School was approached by a man driving a red sedan. The man attempted to convince the girl to get into his vehicle by stating it was […]
Claremont Police Department officer Jeff Dunbar began overseeing Claremont Unified School District campuses as the district’s student resource officer last Wednesday.
A research group headed by the University of California, Santa Barbara which includes Cal Poly Pomona and University of California, Riverside as collaborators was recently awarded a $22 million grant from the United States National Science Foundation to establish a biofoundry to study extremophiles, fungi, archaea, and bacteria that can live in extreme environments, according to a CPP news release.