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A free and public opening reception for Pitzer College Art Galleries’ “Atomic Dragons,” a group showcase featuring activists with Slow War Against the Nuclear State, takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, February 7 at Broad Center’s Nichols Gallery, 1060 N. Mills Ave.
Claremont resident Raul Rodriguez is the city’s 2023 honored citizen and will be celebrated as he makes his way through the Fourth of July parade route, which begins at Memorial Park at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
My name is Thelma Banks. I’m originally from England, having arrived in the U.S. in 1954. Sixty years ago I met a small group of gals from England and Scotland in Claremont. We all had small children and we became friends. We decided to form a British women’s group meeting once a month for tea. Each member took a month to serve as hostess. We called ourselves the Tea Aholics.
Last year Claremont voters agreed to tax commercial cannabis, and now the city wants to know if its citizens actually want marijuana businesses to set up shop in town.
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Aaron Peterson, a 42-year-old technical service engineer for Lockheed Martin Corporation, is one of three contenders for the Trustee Area 4 seat on Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education. Election Day is July 25. Peterson campaigned for the Trustee Area 4 seat in the November 2022 election, losing to […]
Amelie owner and Claremont Village Marketing Group VP Brian Ofstedahl will show and sell some of the rarest, most valuable pieces in his vast, 40-plus years in the making movie poster collection at the Laemmle Claremont 5 Theatre as part of July’s Claremont Art Walk.
The Claremont Art Walk takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 1. This month’s featured artists and galleries are:
The Claremont Lewis Museum of Art’s board of directors recently announced Martin Betz as its new executive director.
The City of Claremont’s 2023 free family movies in the park series begins Thursday, July 6, with a 7:30 p.m. screening of “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) at Lewis Park, 881 Syracuse Dr.
A supportive group of 85 guests were in high spirits given it was the first Claremont Lewis Museum of Art Artful Evening fundraiser since 2019. Held at the home of Valerie Martinez on Saturday, the event raised $9,520, which will go towards programming at the museum. New CLMA Executive Director Martin Betz, above, also made an appearance to meet and update supporters. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
The history of Claremont is riddled with systemic racism and racially restrictive covenants. In the early 1900s, Mexican indigenous pioneers escaping the Mexican Revolution settled in the east barrio, known as “tierra de nadie.”
Retiring Our Lady of the Assumption father Charles Ramirez said he hopes the church will be a haven for “spiritual rest” for those in need of renewal, and a place for parishioners to get closer to God Ramirez made the remarks Saturday to the more than 1,300 people who were on hand at OLA to say goodbye at a Catholic Mass and retirement party.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is expected to release more information in the next few days after hikers discovered human remains Saturday morning in the Mt. Baldy wilderness where British actor Julian Sandsdisappeared in January.
Martin and Janis Weinberger were only married two years when they decided in 1955 to purchase a small community newspaper called the Claremont Courier. And it didn’t take long for Claremonters to figure out the Courier — and Claremont — were going to change dramatically in every sense of the word. Find out the real impact to Claremont and other communities without responsible local news to inform.
Alex McDonald, a 42-year-old family and sports medicine physician with Kaiser Permanente in Fontana, is one of three candidates vying for the vacant Trustee Area 4 seat on the Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education. The special election is set for Tuesday, July 25.
Fourth of July events and fireworks displays will take place in Claremont, La Verne, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, and Upland.