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Hope that Metro’s A Line would reach Claremont was renewed last week when $61 million in funding for design of the 2.3 mile extension from Pomona to the City of Trees was approved. Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority’s Board of Directors awarded a six-year, $61 million contract to Virgina-based Parsons Transportation Group, Inc. for design and engineering services for the Pomona to Claremont segment. It will take about 18 months for the design to be finished and ready to bid, according to Construction Authority CEO Habib Balian, with estimates for completion in 2031 or 2032. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
It was definitely a strange sight Sunday morning as construction crews completed finishing touches on the Vineyard Avenue overpass, leaving parts of the 10 Freeway a relative ghost town.
To finish the work, the freeway will close 10 p.m. to 10 a.m., January 22 and 23 between Vineyard and Archibald avenues in Ontario.
Claremont City Manager Adam Pirrie, second from left, joins the City Council: Jed Leano, left, Mayor Ed Reece, Jennifer Stark, Mayor Pro tem Sal Medina and Corey Calaycay in planting a southern live oak tree on Saturday in Memorial Park. The tree planting event was held to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the devastating windstorm that toppled trees, smashed houses and disrupted life in Claremont for days. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
Saturday, January 21 marks the one-year anniversary of the massive windstorm that walloped Claremont. This windstorm was one of the worst in years and did significant damage to trees, power lines, and structures. Power was lost to about 1,400 homes and clean-up took weeks. Now that the dust has settled, we can reflect on the […]
Jin Chung, a 75-year-old Los Angeles man reported missing Sunday, January 22 after a hike at Mt. Baldy, was found safe Tuesday afternoon.
“This afternoon search and rescue members located missing hiker, Jin Chung,” read a statement from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office. “Mr. Chung suffered some weather-related injuries and a leg injury but was able to walk out with the assistance of the crew members. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment.”
Mount Baldy resident Sean Khao has a unique 2023 resolution: to establish her footing as the new owner of Sherwood Florist.
Claremont Courier High school sports roundup: January 20, 2023
Los Angeles County has elected to fast track a new “court” aimed at delivering mental health disorder services to Californians who need it most.
Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in September 2022, the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment Act, called CARE Court, aims to break the cycle of incarceration and homelessness for people with severe mental illness by implementing a court-ordered 12-month plan to get those people into critical care.
Student submissions are currently being accepted for the City of Claremont and Claremont Unified School District’s 33rd annual Making Change contest, which gives students an opportunity to honor human rights and social justice activists.
Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday to appoint former board member Hilary LaConte to fill the Trustee Area 4 seat vacated by Steven Llanusa, who resigned December 10.
There were 10 applicants for the vacant seat, including Aaron Peterson, whom Llanusa narrowly defeated in the November 8 election.
The Claremont Young Musicians Intermezzo Orchestra, conducted by Greg Samuel, will hold a free and open to the public concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, January 22 in Pomona College’s Bridges Hall of Music, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont.
Following the two most recent rainstorms, the local hillsides were over-saturated with water and several landslides were discovered in the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park. Additionally, the creek that crosses the trail at the entrance was quite deep and swift. Rangers were able to clean up the rock slides on Monday and by Tuesday morning the creek flow had subsided, prompting the decision to reopen the park. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
Ideally, bars, taverns, and pubs can occupy both physical and emotional territory. For me, like many, Upland’s Blackwatch Pub — which will celebrate its 40th anniversary Saturday — is such a place.
The signs that a powerful windstorm ravaged Claremont during the evening of January 21, 2022 are almost invisible, but they’re there: a canted stump on 12th Street; a new sidewalk on Claremont Boulevard; macadam patches along Foothill Boulevard mark where toppled trees had punctured its surface.
By 10:30 a.m. on a recent Friday, Rene Casas had already met rock star Billy Idol, celebrated National Cuddling Day with a consenting colleague, and namedropped his alma mater, La Verne’s Bonita High School, on live radio.
Claremont residents awoke Saturday to find antisemitic flyers left on their driveways in an apparent random, anonymous act.
One of the flyers distributed on Via Zurita Street and Radcliffe Drive intimated Jews are behind the pornography industry. Another parroted the “protocols of the learned elders of Zion,” an antisemitic hoax fabricated in Russia in 1903.
Jason Moss, executive director of the Jewish Federation of the Greater San Gabriel and Pomona Valleys, said the flyers mirror those distributed throughout the United States for more than a year.
After a spate of recent cultural losses, including the Candlelight Pavilion, Rhino Records, and apparently, The Press, Claremont can finally put one in the win column: the Laemmle Claremont 5 theater will remain open … for now.
“Escrow has been cancelled,” Laemmle Theaters President and CEO Greg Laemmle told the Courier on Monday.