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The Community Restoration and Revival organization was founded by Claremont High School student Mario Miranda and is currently sponsored by the Rotary Club of Claremont.
Claremont police arrested a 37-year-old unhoused man at Mallows Park Friday morning after he reportedly shouted, “I’m going to kill them. They can’t do this to me. I have a gun,” in the vicinity of a mother and her young daughter.
The man, whom police said was apparently from Indiana, was charged with making criminal threats, a felony, and resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.
Everything Claremont resident Valerie Martinez does, each new engagement or project she adds to her busy life, furthers her goal of promoting equity and social justice.
A definite silver lining emerged from the destructive storms that pummeled California, when the state’s top water regulator took the first step last week toward easing tough water conservation measures brought on by years of drought.
On Thursday, the California Department of Water Resources announced its intention to boost water allocated to member agencies from the State Water Project, which moves water south from Northern California. The increased supplies will affect 27 million people, most of whom live in Southern California and have been under mandatory water use restrictions since last spring. The announcement is also good news for many of California’s farmers.
Martha Stephenson, 88, wrote about her cat and their relationship. Jeanine Mooneyham, 79, talked about learning of the attack on Pearl Harbor when she was 10. And, 80-year-old Steve Trott, explained how he moved from drums to guitar. They were among the seven seniors from a creative writing class at Claremont Manor retirement community who presented their short stories recently for an audience of about 60.
Andrée M. Mahoney’s exhibition, “Spirit Voyager,” opens Friday, February 17, at Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 200 W. First St.
An opening reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, February 18. The show will remain on view through April 23.
The show is curated by the artist’s daughter Monica Lynne Mahoney. It celebrates Mahoney’s 70th year of “exploring of the richness of life through mixed-media painting and ceramic sculpture,” according to a CLMA news release. “A visual storyteller, Mahoney seeks to strike a balance between color and form, intuition and meaning. The exhibition weaves together her journey of inquiry, and the visionary impulse to manifest life’s sensuality in built form throughout the arc of her life.”
It seems every week the Courier reports on a hiker getting lost, injured, or worse while hiking in the Mt. Baldy area. That continued with the helicopter rescue of Del Mar resident Abdollah Katbab, above the 8,000-foot level of Ice House Canyon on Saturday. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
Claremont Courier Event Calendar (February 3, 2023- February 10, 2023)
A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed, and a second person was injured Thursday night in the parking lot of Montclair Place shopping mall.
Police received a 911 call about shots fired at the location at 8:10 p.m. and quickly cordoned off a parking lot at the northeast corner of the mall, according to Montclair Police Department Sgt. Andrew Graziano.
People love a good “bootstraps” success story, and while not a rags to riches narrative per se, Assistant City Manager Jamie Earl’s ascension to city hall has nonetheless been meteoric.
A dual agency sex work enforcement detail netted 16 solicitation arrests along Indian Hill Boulevard near the 10 Freeway on Friday, January 27.
Claremont police and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation conducted the “sting” along Indian Hill Boulevard near the 10 Freeway, adjacent to the three hotels which have become magnets for sex work.
A 71-year-old hiker who slipped on ice and slid more than 50 feet into dangerous terrain at Mt. Baldy on Saturday was rescued quickly by helicopter, thanks in large part to a commercially available satellite communication device.
San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Helicopter Air Rescue 306 hoisted injured Del Mar resident Abdollah Katbab, above the 8,000-foot level of Ice House Canyon Saturday morning after the hiker slipped while negotiating the area between Timber Mountain and Ice House Saddle.
On Tuesday evening about 20 Claremonters volunteered to search streets, alleyways, sidewalks, parks and other common areas to count the city’s unhoused population as part of the 2023 Greater Los Angeles Point-in-Time homeless count.
The count began at 8 p.m. at the Alexander Hughes Community Center, where materials and 15 service maps were distributed among 11 teams. The Courier was partnered with Claremont resident and volunteer Rachel Forester and her husband, George Ambrocio in service area three, which included the Village, south Foothill Boulevard between Towne and Dartmouth avenues, and areas along First Street and Indian Hill Boulevard. After a three-and-a-half-hour search yielded six unhoused people, the team returned to home base.
The Claremont City Council unanimously adopted the rates for its cannabis business tax Tuesday, and in a tandem motion cleared the way to start collecting the tax on legal marijuana deliveries into the city.
Pomona College and the labor union Unite Here Local 11 have reached a contract agreement for the college’s dining hall and catering staff.
In a joint news release the organizations said they penned a four-year collective bargaining agreement on January 18 that would bring all the college’s food service workers to a minimum $25-per-hour wage. The employees overwhelmingly ratified the agreement in a union vote.
Children and families are invited to bring their bikes and helmets to Sycamore Elementary School, 225 W. Eighth St., Claremont, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, January 29 for the first ever Sustainable Claremont bike rodeo.
Parents and caregivers can sign their children up for this free event at sustainableclaremont.org.
Andy Dale is getting nostalgic.
“Who woulda thunk that this craft brewing industry would last that long and just get bigger and bigger through the years?” said Dale, co-owner of Upland’s Last Name Brewing, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a free, all-ages bash from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, January 28 at 2120 Porterfield Way, Upland.