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Well, for the second week running, not one reader correctly identified last week’s “Where Am I?” photo. We at the Courier hear you loud and clear: “Stop with the obscurities!” For the record, last week’s mystery photo was Douglas O. McGoon III’s 2003 untitled fountain sculpture right outside our lovely new offices at the Garner House in Memorial Park, Claremont.
The man who would like to be the new sheriff in town paid a visit to Claremont over the weekend to promote his candidacy. Former Long Beach Chief of Police Robert Luna was the guest speaker Sunday for a special meeting of the Democratic Club of Claremont. He is running against incumbent Al Villanueva for Los Angeles County Sheriff.
Between 4 and 8 a.m. Monday through Thursday, Jonathon Anderson works his unloading shift at Vons in La Verne then makes his way to the Ontario Center Ice Arena for training with the Ontario Jr. Reign until to noon. It’s a heavy schedule for the Claremont hockey player, especially once weekend games and family events are lumped into the mix, but the spry 19-year-old doesn’t mind the demands.
In August 1939, 10-year-old Jerry Lindenstraus and his Jewish family of eight arrived at the port of Shanghai, China carrying some luggage, German family heirlooms, and fears about their future. Jerry’s spirit remained animated as he inhaled the steamy summer air and surveyed the boisterous crowd of Asian faces. He and his family were then taken to the Jewish refugee center via trucks –– nine of the 18,000 Jews who sought refuge in Shanghai during the terrible rise of Nazi Germany.
Dozens of Claremont voters got a surprise this week when they opened their newly arrived ballots to discover the option of voting for Claremont City Council was missing. The crux of the issue appears to be a critical difference between the district map the Claremont City Council approved in March and one the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder used to determine which ballots to mail out.
On Sunday, October 16, 14-year-old Claremont High School freshman Gabriel Jovel-Acock will be living the dream. The local boy with Down syndrome will lead participants around Memorial Park, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont, as the grand marshal for this year’s National Down Syndrome Society Buddy Walk, organized by the Inland Valley Down Syndrome Association. The event kicks off at 10 a.m.
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Claremont High School boys water polo: Results from the Varsity October Classic tournament: on Friday, October 7, the Wolfpack traveled to Rowland for two afternoon games. The team sunk Chaparral, 16-8, then beat Canyon Crest Academy, 11-7. Tournament play continued in Claremont on Saturday, October 8 when Troy dealt the team a 19-13 loss. The Pack then bounced back with a 13-12 win over Torrey Pines to conclude the tournament.
Register today for Claremont Helen Renwick Library’s smarty pants story time session — held Thursday, October 20 from 10:15 to 10:40 a.m.
The Claremont City Council this week elected to hit the pause button on a series of ordinances aimed at protecting the city’s many renters, recognizing the potentially long lasting and unknown consequences of those new rules. The council was presented with three ordinances Tuesday that, if passed, would augment and strengthen existing state law by adding additional renter protections in Claremont.
Former longtime Claremonter Jacqueline Dunn died Friday, October 7 at her home in Oceanside, with her devoted husband of 61 years, Douglas Dunn, by her side. During her more than 40 years as a Claremont resident, Jackie Dunn was an interior designer and owner of the The Ivy House Antiques on Foothill Boulevard, as well as a therapist to many Claremont couples and families.
Dozens of Claremont voters got a surprise this week when they opened their newly arrived ballots only to discover the option of voting for Claremont City Council was missing. The crux of the issue appears to be that the council district map on the Los Angeles County Registrar Recorder’s website shows several streets in the westernmost portion of the city in District 1 that are in District 4 in the map approved by the Claremont City Council in March. This may have caused the registrar recorder to send the wrong ballots to those people.
Sunflowers reach to the sky during a warm sunny weekend day, while getting a little attention from their busy winged friends. And these sunflowers grew to eight feet and higher […]
In May 2021, former Claremont resident Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy lieutenant stationed in Japan, took his wife Brittany and their three children on a day trip to Mt. Fuji, which was not far from their home. The family traveled by car to about 8,000 feet in elevation, where they went on a day hike. As they returned to the car and began the trip down the mountain, Alkonis lost consciousness while behind the wheel and the vehicle crashed into a parking lot, killing an 85-year-old woman and her 54-year-old son-in-law.
Aaron Peterson sees his run for the Trustee Area 4 seat on Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education as a chance to make a difference. He was “talking with [his] wife about the chaos and everything that society has been through in the last two years,” Peterson said. “It’s one thing to armchair quarterback things, and say, ‘Well, they should have done something better,’ or ‘They should have done something different.’ But unless you’re actually willing to step up and do something about it and put yourself in a position where you can be a conduit for change, you might as well be yelling at a wall.”
First elected to Claremont Unified School District’s Board of Education in 2005, he sees his senior role on the body as something to be valued.
Llanusa is running against Aaron Peterson in CUSD Trustee Area 4, “for several reasons.” “Originally it was to make sure there was continuity in the school board with a new superintendent, then it became continuity on the school board with [board members] Dave [Nemer] and Nancy [Treser Osgood] retiring,” he told the COURIER. “Kathy [Archer] and Bob [Fass] are in their first term, Nancy and Dave will be replaced by two new board members, and if I didn’t run it’d be three brand new board members and two right in the middle of their first term. So, I thought for continuity’s sake it was worth having a veteran on the board.”
City council candidate Aundré Johnson decided to run for office because he truly loves Claremont and felt a sense of duty to his adopted home. “You can’t sit and complain and say you don’t like certain things about the city if you are not willing to stand up,” Johnson said. In a sense, when Johnson moved to the City of Trees five years ago, it really was a homecoming, considering he was raised in nearby Pomona and attended Claremont High School for three years.
After months of pleading with the city for action on a special ordinance to curb criminal activity emanating from motels near the 10 Freeway, numerous residents from south Claremont attended the Claremont Planning Commission on Tuesday to urge it to reject its proposed ordinance.