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The Pomona-Pitzer baseball team celebrates their 8-7 victory over East Texas Baptist University on May 25, advancing them to the NCAA Div. III World Series, which kicks off Friday, May 31. Photo/courtesy of Pomona-Pitzer athletics
We’ve seen the ads that are so different, it’s hard to tell whether they are talking about the same person. But Gavin Newsom is the focus and is on the […]
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by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Is it time to rethink the notion that marijuana—long considered a relatively “safe” method of altering one’s consciousness—is harmless? According to […]
The Claremont Museum of Art Fall Gala returns to the Claremont Depot lawn on Saturday, September 18. This year’s theme, “Imagine,” celebrates the completion of two new galleries in the […]
Claremonters Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat were living and working in Manhattan on 9/11. They were in their home in midtown but the magazine they worked for was located in the skyscraper behind the historic Trinity Church at the end of Wall Street, just three blocks from the Twin Towers. After they found out their colleagues had been safely evacuated from the area, they wrote a prayer poem called “Rest in Peace” about the tragedy.
On Tuesday, the COURIER dropped by Everett’s Shoe Repair unannounced to chat with its new owner, Victor Ojeda, a shoe repairman from Los Angeles who wants to keep the shoe repair industry alive. “The craft that we do here, how you repair a shoe, and how you can bring back to life a really old pair of shoes…some people call it…an art that not so many can do anymore,” he said. “I wanted to give it a life and keep [it] going.”
Claremont has a long tradition of preserving the hillsides above the city, and one environmental advocacy group would like to add the proposed Clara Oaks development land to the list.
Car enthusiasts from across Southern California will come together for the 27th Cool Cruise Car Show in Old Town La Verne on Saturday, September 11, 2021 from 10 a.m. to […]
Two youth are bathed in light mist as they pass Bardot Restaurant on Thursday in the Claremont Village. A late summer heat wave swept into the Inland Valley late this week with temperatures predicted to be near 100 degrees throughout the weekend. The cooler weather we had last week will be returning to the City of Trees beginning Wednesday.
September is around the corner and that means Claremont’s favorite thrift store, The Economy Shop, will be reopening for its nine-month season.
Claremont students are returning to in-person fall classes for the first time since 2019, as we mark the second full academic year COVID-19 has altered time honored back-to-school rituals.
In two weeks, the Pomona Fairplex will host a downsized version of the Los Angeles County Fair appropriately called the Bite-Sized Fair.
The frenetic Claremont housing market continues to strain the budgets of would-be home buyers as year over year price gains exceed 20% this summer. According to a report from DQ News, Claremont’s median home price in June 2021, the latest month for which data is available, was $731,000 based on 57 sale—a 23.4% increase over 2020.
Beginning at noon on September 3, the Claremont Museum of Art will be unveiling their newest exhibition titled Furious Garden, a botany-like display featuring artwork from artists Deena Capparelli, Karen Kitchel and Cj Jilek.
by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-couirer.com Claremonters Lee and Claire McDonald recently reached an impressive milestone. On August 17, 1946, a young couple, only 21 and 19 years of age, were […]
Construction at Pomona College continues right into the fall semester with the building of the Center for Athletics, Recreation and Wellness on Sixth Street in Claremont. The $57 million renovation […]