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Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School’s girls basketball team recently completed an historic season, finishing 13-7, and compiling a seven-game win streak along the way, both school records. “This is not just a good year for girls’ basketball; this is a historic one,” said OLA’s David Higuera. “The Lady Raiders have shattered expectations and school records alike, putting together a season that will be talked about for years to come.” Photo/courtesy of OLA
Kathleen Fariss, founder and chief executive officer of Fariss Coaching and Consulting, has been named CEO of the Claremont Chamber of Commerce.
California Botanic Garden and Pomona Valley Audubon Society host to 2025 family bird festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, February 16 at 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont.
Families affected by last month’s devastating Los Angeles wildfires recently got some much needed financial relief thanks to Chaparral Elementary School staff, students and families who collected $2,015 in earmarked funds for the American Red Cross.
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 200 W. First St., will mount four exhibitions and a pop-up show in 2025. On view through March 23 are “Home in Aztlán: The Garcia Collection of Chicanx Art” and its companion exhibition, “One of Your Girls or Your Homies: Tan Jazz Mont.” The exhibits feature Chicanx art from the […]
Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art will open four new exhibits on Thursday, February 13: “Jonathan Lethem’s Parallel Play: Contemporary Art and Art Writing,” described as “a chronicle of an author who roams among visual artists,” showcases artistic and written works from or related to the personal collection of author Jonathan Lethem, a professor of […]
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s 2025 season begins March 29 with a 7:30 p.m. performance of “The Fantasticks” at University of La Verne’s Morgan Auditorium, 1950 Third St. Additional shows are 2 p.m. March 30 and April 6, and 7:30 p.m. April 5.
“The update to the City’s Tree Policies and Guidelines Manual provides updated [best management practices], transparency, protections for established trees, more robust community input procedures, and recommendations for urban forest resiliency,” according to a city staff report. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Residents of Moab Drive in Claremont were startled Monday morning by a loud bang and a burst of smoke resembling fireworks. Moments later, around 9:30 a.m., the power went out on Moab Drive and on Montana Lane, to the south. The blown transformer left at least a dozen homes without electricity for nearly 11 hours. Southern California Edison crews said the cause of the outage was a squirrel that made an unfortunate misstep, triggering the explosion and killing the rodent. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
The Claremont City Council updated two important documents, the priorities and objectives list for 2024-2026 and the tree policies and guidelines manual, at its January 28 meeting.
“With our new/old president/king dominating the headlines with his well-orchestrated flurry of wacky and dangerous executive orders, bizarre photo ops, and magical thinking, you may or may not be experiencing symptoms ranging from unease to panic, accompanied by rapid heartbeat, fury, and/or the joyless laughter of the damned. But this state of heightened anxiety is exactly what the new administration’s architects and wannabe oligarchs have in mind. You must say no to constant outrage. In the words of The Bard himself, LL Cool J, ‘I just chill. I don’t stand outside too much. I do what I gotta do and chill, man, know what I’m saying? That’s all. It’s cool.’ So, do what you gotta do, but be chill, ok?”
The deadline for submissions to Cal Poly Pomona’s 2026 Rose Float Concept Contest is 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 5. The contest winner will choose between two tickets to attend the 2026 Rose Parade or $500.
The Claremont Art Walk of 2025 runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, February 1.
Solomon Salim Moore has been named academic curator at Pomona College’s Benton Museum of Art. Moore will oversee academic programs and class visits to the museum and direct its intern program.
“In the ‘tough on crime’ 1990s, legislators enacted various statutes, including California’s Three Strikes law, designed to punish and isolate rather than rehabilitate those who commit crimes. Times have changed. From 2020 to 2024, former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón pushed for reforms that emphasized rehabilitation. But there has been a sharp decline in public interest for criminal justice reform. Many nonprofits that donated to Gascón’s previous campaign, flourishing during the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, no longer exist. Criminal justice reform is no longer a top agenda item for many. This rapid loss of momentum reveals a troubling truth: criminal justice reform, and other forms of activism, have become trends.”
President Trump’s slew of executive orders since taking office January 20, particularly his attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States, has unsettled many students at the Claremont Colleges. “My mom got birthright citizenship here. A lot of my friends have birthright citizenship … It’s kind of scary, especially at Pitzer, [where] we have a lot of international students,” said Pitzer College sophomore Karina Swerdloff. “But as horrible as he is, he doesn’t have much power to change the Constitution.” Photo/Courtesy of White House
“It’s hard — if not impossible — to discern the root causes and solutions for managing the Los Angeles fires. At this point, it’s far too early for definitive answers. Yet that hasn’t stopped the flow of mis- and disinformation to the public, making it difficult to know what to believe.
When the fires were raging, President Trump seemed more focused on assigning blame to Governor Newsom and the State of California for alleged poor pre-fire management. The timing of this criticism felt odd, given the widespread public concern and the heroic efforts of first responders and other agencies. It was hardly the morale boost the situation called for.”