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Claremont Unified School District is exploring the possibility of asking voters to approve a new facilities bond as part of the November 3 election. If Claremont voters approve it, the potential new bond it would go into effect after the $48.9 million Measure Y bond, which voters approved in 2000, is retired in 2029. CUSD Superintendent Jim Elsasser is pictured here at the February 19 Board of Education meeting. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Scripps Fine Arts Foundation and Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery host a free and open to the public 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 lecture and tea at Clark Humanities Museum, 1030 Columbia Ave., Claremont, followed by a tour of Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, 251 E. 11th St., Claremont, the site of the 80th Scripps College Ceramic Annual.
The Webb Schools’ Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology’s Fossil Fest, an exposition of paleontology-related topics, runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 8 at 1175 W. Baseline Rd., Claremont.
The free and open to the public Claremont Art Walk takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 1, with a wide variety of exhibits.
Winners of the City of Claremont and Claremont Unified School District’s Making Change contest were announced Monday, including Condit Elementary School fourth grader Lizzie Hayward, who wrote about CUSD’s Senior Liaison of Youth and Family Services, Rosa Leong. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
On Tuesday, the Claremont City Council voted unanimously to allocate the city’s 2025-26 permanent housing allocation program budget of $60,867 to Pomona’s Hope for Home Homeless Services Center. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
A man who provided his first name only, David, said “If you really want to know, if you want to write something in the paper, stay out here for a week with us, with no money, a phone that barely works, and just hang out with us for a week.” Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education named Denise Klinovsky as its teacher of the year and Cyndi Leier as classified staff member of the year its February 20 meeting. The board also heard an update to the district’s local control and accountability plan. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Congratulations to Alfred Cramer, one of 10 readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as Robert I. Russin’s 1973 fountain sculpture, “Joie de Vie,” in Lyon Garden at Pomona College. Alfred is now entered into the year-end drawing for a one-year subscription to everyone’s favorite award-winning local newspaper, the Claremont Courier. So, “Where am I” this week? Email your answer, full name, and city of residence — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to contest@claremont-courier.com for your chance to win. Courier photo/Tom Smith
What’s happening Claremont? by Andrew Alonzo | calendar@claremont-courier.com Friday, February 28 Entries for California Botanic Garden’s 2025 bird photography contest are due today. Email photocontest@calbg.org with the subject “Bird Month Photo Contest 2025” and include your name, phone number, email, the bird species depicted, and the date the photo was taken. Winners will be named by Monday, March 10. More info […]
A time-honored rite of spring, the launch of Claremont Little League’s 66th season, took place Saturday under clear, sunny skies. The opening day celebration included food, prizes, raffles, games, and, of course, baseball. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
“If ever there were a state best positioned to resist the Trump administration, it’s California. Famously, we are the fifth largest economy in the world. With that kind of outsized productivity and economic firepower, perhaps we ought consider that recent $1 trillion purchase offer from kindly Denmark.”
The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority Board of Directors unanimously reelected Claremont City Council member Ed Reece and Glendora City Council member Mendell Thompson as board chair and vice chair, respectively, on February 13.
Cal Poly Pomona President Soraya Coley, 74, will step down as president and retire from the California State University system at the end of July. Coley became CPP’s first woman and first Black president in 2015. “Her tenure has been marked by investments in student success, campus facilities, academic advising, programs to increase belonging and […]
Carolyn Bertozzi, the Baker Family Director of Sarafan ChEM-H at Stanford University and the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry, is the featured speaker at Pomona College chemistry department’s 61st Robbins Lecture Series, themed “The Biology of Sugars: Sweet Revenge on Human Disease.” Four free and open to the public talks will take place […]
Mohamed Abousalem was inaugurated as the third president of Keck Graduate Institute on February 13 at Scripps College’s Garrison Theater.
Inland Empire Magazine readers recently voted Inland Valley Repertory Theatre as the best performing arts company, with IVRT founders Frank and Donna Marie Minano on hand to receive the award at Riverside Convention Center on February 7.