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“Sometimes I look up and another day has gone by and all I’ve done is work. ‘Grinding,’ is what they call this glorification of overwork, as if there’s nobility in it. It’s a myth, a scam. We’re all gonna die. Some of us will no doubt check out early because we ignored our health in favor of chasing material wealth, power, or status. I’ve been with people in their final moments, and nobody’s yearning for more money or a bigger house. They all just want more time.”

California Senator Anthony Portantino and actor Jason Alexander will be among the guests at 10:30 a.m. Friday, January 27 as Beatrice Casagran, of Upland-based theater company Ophelia’s Jump, MCs a rally to support funding for SB1116, the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund at The Antaeus Theater, 110 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205.

The intent of SB1116, which was passed September 29, 2022, is “to recognize the special circumstances and charitable nature of small nonprofit performing arts organizations while promoting job creation in the sector,” according to its text.

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 […]

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.