Opinion

Plans for Pomona College Dear Editor: Thank you for your coverage of Pomona College’s Master Plan and specifically the plans for a new Pomona College Museum of Art. As you reported, the college requested earlier this week to have our request for approval of the master plan, environmental impact review and zoning change removed from […]

by Jan Wheatcroft I have a granddaughter named Violet. She is the child of my younger son. He is a super father—loving, playful, thoughtful and hands-on. And my daughter-in-law is a fabulous mother—warm and caring. Together they have produced this delightful child who is both serious and funny, and an intense little explorer. The sad […]

Eclectic Garden Tour [Editor’s note:?The following letter was sent to the Sustainable Claremont Garden Club with a copy forwarded for publication. —KD] Dear Editor: We just got home from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden tour, and I want to send this email before life gets in the way. Over the last 27 years, my […]

by John Pixley Last summer, I wrote a column pretty much about a tree.  There had been two or three articles in these pages about the tree, which was on Seventh Street and well over 100 years old and had been badly damaged. Despite a good deal of effort, it wasn’t able to be saved. […]

Clearing up water Dear Editor: Two specific points  for the COURIER story on April 10 seem worth more public attention. The first regards the information under pictures on pages 1 and 3:  San Antonio Dam was built by the Army Corp of Engineers for flood prevention. Although it could hold 11.880 acre feet of water, […]

  With thanks to Claremont Dear Claremont community: Claremont High School suffered a terrible tragedy on Sunday, March 29, when a CHS student passed away. It was a painful week for the students, staff and families of the CHS community; however, the support CHS received from this town and local agencies helped ease our burdens, […]

by Debbie Carini I’m about to embark on a huge adventure; in fact, it’s a full-fledged, passport, visa, language-that’s-not- ABC-based adventure. And I am very excited. I like to travel. Having grown up with a dad whose “Sunday drives” often involved entering another country (he really thought nothing of motoring from our small town just […]

by John Pixley “There’s no need to leave Claremont. Why would you want to?” I found myself thinking later that Saturday evening last month of what Randy Lopez said. I had just told my friend that, more and more these days I am happy to be able to go home to Claremont. We were in […]

Choosing historic paint colors for your house by John Neiuber, president of Claremont Heritage   Exterior paint colors are like public art and, like public art, choose the “wrong” color and your choice will create controversy in your neighborhood, if not the entire community! Just try painting your arts and crafts bungalow a bright avocado […]

A Sustainability Resource Center for the community by Alexis Reyes and Freeman Allen     On March 11, Sustainable Claremont celebrated the opening of its new Resource Center.  Why should that interest you? Want to re-landscape your yard but don’t know which plants to pick? Want to retrofit your home but don’t know where to […]

From Julius Dear Editor: Some people attempt to relate to my son who lives with severe physical disabilities. I can’t be angry by their efforts to associate my son’s condition with something familiar to them, even though their understanding may not even be in our ballpark. Associating his asthma with their own or his special […]

Is organic pesticide-free? Dear Editor: Nancy Minitie’s excellent article about possible pesticide exposure on organic produce is an eye-opener. As consumers, we rely on the conventional meaning of words that describe food. We also like to believe that the purpose of government agencies is to protect the consumer, when actually those agencies have to balance […]

by Jan Wheatcroft I don’t use a credit card a lot. I find it inhibits my ability to save money, making it so easy to buy things I might not really need. It makes spending so easy so I try to restrict myself and use cash or checks or debit my account. I have had […]

by Mellissa Martinez Last year, I came across an archived article from a 1994 New Yorker that relied exclusively on the misuse of language to express humor. In “How I Met My Wife,” Jack Winter cleverly drops the negating suffixes from common words to create playful affirmatives. He begins, “I saw her standing alone in […]

Beware! Dear Editor: Beware, the big bad Republicans are at their war of inciting vocabulary. First it was that “arrogant” black man in the White House. Then a few weeks ago it was that “arrogant” junior senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren and her plea for prosecution of the too big to fail banks. Now it […]

by Corey Calaycay, mayor, city of Claremont Four months ago, Claremont voters approved Measure W to finance the acquisition of the Claremont water system by 71 percent. In the time since the revenue bond measure passed, the city has been moving forward on the acquisition of the water system. On November  25, 2014 the city […]