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“I’ve always been a puzzle geek and kept this idea in my head. I started creating puzzles and texting them to my nephews about 15 years ago. Then in 2020 when Covid hit, my wife and I started a nightly thing with our friends, six couples. They would all be by their phones at 8 p.m. sharp, at which time would post the puzzles to our group text and they would race to answer it first.” Photo/courtesy of Gerald Gornik
Construction is underway on the Robert Day Sciences Center, which will foster transparent and dynamic interaction among faculty, staff, and experts, and across disciplines and applied research and learning opportunities. The unique design, conceived by renowned architects of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, will make the scientific process visible to students by offering views into classrooms and research spaces from a soaring central atrium at all levels.
Internationally acclaimed poet and essayist Roger Reeves, 43, said he’s not really feeling like a celebrity this week despite Claremont Graduate University rolling out the red carpet for him. Don’t get him wrong though, he’s still enjoying the star treatment as an honored guest of the college, complete with a welcome ceremony Monday.
Pomona College celebrated its 136th birthday on Thursday, October 12, with a Founders Day community service project at Marston Quad. Volunteers from the college and San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments assembled approximately 900 snack, hygiene and activity kits for Alhambra Teacher’s Association, Esperanza Villa, God’s Pantry, House of Ruth, Inc., Los Angeles Centers for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Operation Stay Safe, Serenity Homes of Napa Valley, Shepherd’s Pantry, and Sycamores.
Claremont Chamber of Commerce’s 41st annual Village Venture Arts and Crafts Festival takes place Saturday, October 28, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. throughout the Claremont Village. The annual free and open to the public event includes music, food trucks, arts and crafts vendors, nonprofit and community services booths, local business deals, a costume parade and a beer and wine garden.
On October 14, Claremont Heritage, Rio de Ojas, Claremont Lewis Museum of Art and Friends of the Claremont Library hosted a Dia de los Muertos event in the Village which included vendors selling Hispanic crafts at a marketplace behind Bardot. Crowds engaged in face painting and other arts activities along Harvard Avenue as local residents set up ofrendas and offerings to their late family members in and around Shelton Park. The free event also featured entertainment from local mariachi, marionette and salsa and Latin ballroom dance groups.
The front page of the Wednesday October 29, 2003 edition of the Claremont Courier had a full page photo of a burning hillside with the headline “Fire from hell.“Behaving in a manner apt for its name as the Grand Prix Fire, the conflagration that literally sped through Claremont on its way west Saturday night and Sunday morning at one point consumed an astounding 2,700 acres in a two-hour period,” wrote veteran reporter Patricia Yarborough. Courier photo/Trish Branley
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Claremont High School Football (0-8) Claremont lost its homecoming game, 12-7, against West Covina on October 13, but the team hopes to turn things around […]
Saturday’s solar eclipse put on a spectacular show in Claremont even if it was short of a total eclipse here. The “ring of fire” full eclipse was visible in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas, as well as Mexico and South America. The eclipse lasted from 2 1/2 to three hours depending on where one was viewing the phenomenon while the ring of fire portion itself lasted three to five minutes. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
by Steven Felschundneff | steven@claremont-courier.com Given the choice between approving a fireworks display or ditching the nighttime portion of the Fourth of July celebration, the Claremont Community and Human Services […]
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art are this year’s hosts of the 19th Annual Padua Hills Art Fiesta, set for Sunday, November 5, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 4467 Padua Ave., Claremont.
Claremont High School students, family and staff celebrated the 2023 homecoming like Olympians Friday night with a theme of an evening in Athens. During halftime of the Pack’s home game versus West Covina, the coronation of the royal court included naming the king and queen, CHS seniors Queen Beverly Be, in photo, and King Edgar Chacon. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
In one of several moves designed in part to help curb incidents of violence, Claremont Unified School District instituted a new policy this year at El Roble Intermediate School: students were no longer permitted to use cellphones while on campus.
During general public comment at Tuesday’s Claremont City Council meeting several people participating via Zoom leveled angry bigoted, racist, and anti-Semitic attacks, mostly aimed at the Jewish community but also at Black people and immigrants. The shocking incident prompted the city to announce Wednesday that it will discontinue remote public comment effective immediately. Courier photo/Steven Felschundneff
How to talk about this with our kids? These are the humans we’ve raised to be kind, to “use your words,” to stand up to bullies and help the helpless. How to square those lessons with what they’re seeing and hearing from Israel and Gaza? Again, this is a privileged position, one I am grateful to be in. But it’s also an important teaching moment in American parents’ lives, one I am loathe to fumble. I write this not in retreat or to hedge, nor to resort to “bothsidesism” to avoid taking a stand. I’m not Jewish. I’m not Israeli. I’m not Muslim. I’m not Palestinian. I am human, and I am not sure about the best way forward.
Local singer, songwriter, and producer Anamaria De La Cruz has been grappling with complex feelings of loss, grief, and heartbreak stemming from the death of her parents Janis Peterson, in 2018, and Roberto De La Cruz a year later, and is hoping to soften the difficult emotional punch with her debut record, “Gone,” set to be released in 2024. “I wish they were here with me in person to be part of this process, but I know that they would be really proud and excited about this.” Photo/courtesy of Anamaria De La Cruz