Opinion

by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com As we witness events unique for this generation, I cannot help but feel Americans need to show the world how we can bridge our differences and unite as a nation. On Wednesday, I watched 500 people march to the Claremont police station and peacefully, passionately express their views on police […]

by Peter Weinberger | pweinberger@claremont-courier.com The story is the same all across the country. Local community newspapers continue to merge, purge or simply disappear, as the nation’s economy continues its freefall from Covid-19. The real losers are the residents in small town America, as local news deserts become far too common. Weekly newspapers rely largely […]

By Don Gould It is often said that the economy is not the stock market, and vice versa. Never has that seemed truer. In the economy we have witnessed an unimaginable explosion in unemployment, the byproduct of lockdowns to slow the Covid pandemic. Thirty-nine million Americans have filed unemployment claims in the last nine weeks […]

Key term is ‘local’ Dear Editor: Last week’s opinion piece by Joe Lyons is an important reminder of the need to develop local answers to prevailing problems. CHERP is worth supporting and its example is worth applying to other areas of concern. The Covid-19 virus has dramatically demonstrated the foolishness of globalism. For Claremont and […]

You have been a blessing to our school for more than 60 years, and even though we are moving to Salem, Oregon, this summer, we will continue our friendship for years to come. When our School of Theology moved to Claremont from the campus of the University of Southern California back in 1956, the city […]

Public input Dear Editor: I am very glad that the letters and petitions sent to our city council after the agenda packet was sent out were read aloud by the city clerk and her assistants online during the council meeting. This wasn’t done before council meetings were closed to public attendance and began to be […]

by Chris Naticchia It’s been more than two months but the memory remains intense. Before there was even a stay-at-home order or talk of wearing cloth masks in public, my first adjustment was rather pedestrian: I put the winter exams for my university classes online. But when coronavirus soon made clear that our spring term […]

Evangelical leaders to reopen Dear Editor: I read with a mix of sadness and anger this morning in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin about the plans of a number of churches in our adjacent counties to open for public worship on May 31 in defiance of best practices and governmental guidance as to how to […]

By John Neiuber Our walking tour of Claremont continues. In Part 1, we started at the Depot, zig-zagged our way through the East Village, and explored the West Village, ending at The Packing House on First Street. Part 2 begins there. Cross First Street and proceed north on Oberlin. THE BACK ABBEY, 1907 128 NORTH […]

This coming Tuesday, May 12, the Claremont City Council will consider the next phase of planning for the Village South Specific Plan (VSSP). In our state, planning decisions are meant to be local, and they’re meant to be an open process of community input, expert research and continuing discussion. In the current VSSP draft, written […]

by Char Miller In the early morning hours, as dawn begins to break, that’s when Claremont comes alive. Nowhere is this more obvious than along First Street. Folks living in the townhomes head east, duck into the Packing House for a cup of coffee, and then stroll to the depot to ride a bus or […]

Readers of the COURIER have been kept informed about the financial challenges and projected structural deficits our city has been quietly dealing with for over a decade. Until two years ago, our city council was able to adopt balanced budgets that did not appear on the surface to impact the day to day operations of […]

  Be fair about Village South Dear Editor: The Claremont City Council is scheduled to discuss increased density in the Village South Specific plan at its Zoom meeting on May 12.  This is not a suitable item to be placed on this agenda. Claremont residents are facing the challenges of loss of income and school […]

by Peter Weinberger pweinberger@claremont-courier.com Now that we are in our seventh week under stay-at-home orders, anxiety and impatience increase as we map out our future combating the coronavirus. The virus is by no means contained, with new hot spots cropping up all over the US. But the number of cases and associated deaths have begun […]

Readers of the COURIER have been kept informed about the financial challenges and projected structural deficits our city has been quietly dealing with for over a decade. Until two years ago, our city council was able to adopt balanced budgets that did not appear on the surface to impact the day to day operations of […]

Alternative exercise Dear Editor: It is interesting to observe how some people are spending time and energy now that everything is shut down. Four Claremont senior women formerly spent every morning engaged in a class involving an aggressive form of yoga. Now even that is gone. So they decided to get their exercise in a […]