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The Fourth celebration revs-up Thursday, when the city’s Fourth of July events begin with a 7 a.m. pancake breakfast at Memorial Park, followed by the parade, festival, and fireworks show, as well as a host of other traditional events. Learn what’s happening at claremont4th.org. Courier photo
The Woman’s Club of Claremont recently awarded merit scholarships to four Claremont Unified School District high school seniors.
“Iron Horse Road: a Tale from Gold Mountain” is the story behind the construction of the transcontinental connecting railroad. Built by some 20,000 Chinese and other East Asian immigrants from 1863 to 1869 and stretching 690 miles from Sacramento through Promontory Summit in Utah, the project claimed the lives of more than 3,000 workers.
The undefeated 11-and-under Claremont all-star team won the 11U California Little League District 20 title last week, earning a trip to the Section 3 tournament, which begins Saturday. The juniors, pictured here, lost a Tuesday Section 3 title game showdown with South Pasadena, 6-4, sending them home for the summer.
With temperatures approaching triple digits this weekend, the City of Claremont is opening several cooling centers to offer air conditioned oases to those in need.
Joslyn Center, 660 N. Mountain Ave., will be open Friday, July 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Blaisdell Community Center, at 440 S College Ave., will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, July 14.
The Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Rd., opens at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, July 14-15, and 10 a.m. Sunday, July 16. The Claremont Helen Renwick Library, 208 N. Harvard Ave., is open Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
It’s fitting in a way that it took nearly eight hours to get the job done, but early Wednesday morning the Claremont City Council finally approved an update to the city’s housing element, ending a 20-month saga to bring the city back into compliance with state law.
Ophelia’s Jump Productions annual Midsummer Shakespeare Festival kicked off July 13 at Pomona College’s Sontag Greek Theater, with “Measure for Measure” running through July 23. Ophelia’s Jump founding artistic director Beatrice Casagran helps secure set walls after they were toppled by a windstorm during load-in. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
Early Wednesday morning the Claremont City Council approved the long overdue housing element, ending a monthslong effort to update this important part of the city’s general plan.
by John Neiuber | Special to the Courier When we hear the word church we readily think of a building, a house of worship. Church in Christian doctrine, however, refers […]
This past Sunday, Sebastian Grannis and Saul Harper from Bert and Rocky’s Cream Company found themselves serving about 150 triple scoops made from native plants at California Botanic Garden’s Freeze Wild 2023 event at Lewis Family Forest Pavilion.
There is no vaccination for hepatitis C, but there is now an effective cure. Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver which can be caused by alcohol, toxins, unrelated medical conditions, or one of several viruses.
Last July 8, on the occasion of being named the Courier’s seventh editor in its then 114-year history, I wrote, “I will stumble. I will make mistakes. I will likely make you angry once in a while. Again, that’s life, and that’s journalism. I know I don’t have to tell our readers that letters to the editor are always welcome here at the Courier.” Well, y’all have certainly responded with gusto. I’m thankful our Readers’ Comments section continues to offer a vibrant public forum. And I’ve certainly made mistakes.
On June 25, Pomona College welcomed 33 high schoolers for its annual Pomona College Academy for Youth Success, or PAYS, four-week academically rigorous summer program meant to prepare students for college and life beyond. The program began in 2002 with a similar goal of serving underprivileged and under-resourced youth from Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties.
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Earlier this year, Joshua Rogers began circulating a petition to compel Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education to hold a special election to fill […]
The presidents of the Claremont Colleges responded quickly with messages of disappointment and resolve following the United States Supreme Court striking down affirmative action for student admission on June 29. “We write today to share our disappointment in the Supreme Court’s decision that removes the ability for our Office of Admission to consider race and ethnicity in its admission decisions,” Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe said in a statement.
Allen Ackerman — baseball coach and Claremonter who died April 29, 2017 at age 87 — will be inducted into the California American Legion Baseball Hall of Fame July 20 […]