Claremont School News
Claremont Graduate University and Harvey Mudd College were recently named among 74 recipients of “Insight Into Academia” magazine’s 2025 mental health and well-being awards.
Claremont Unified School District parents and students line up on Sunday to get a coronavirus test at El Roble Intermediate School. School officials said they hoped to test 1,400 people on during the special clinic, one day in advance of classes resuming. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
City holiday closures: beginning Friday, December 24, Claremont City Hall, the Alexander Hughes Community Center, the city yard and the Joslyn Center will all be closed throughout the holidays and will not reopen until Monday, January 3.
Claremont Boy Scout Troop 402 has welcomed six new Eagle Scouts following a ceremony on Sunday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
On Monday, Claremont Graduate University (CGU) announced “lead gifts in conjunction with several additional gifts” totaling over one-million dollars — had been secured to create the Ellis Cumberbatch Professorship. The professorship was named after the late CGU Institute of Mathematical Sciences professor and will “support a faculty position in mathematics in CGU’s Institute of Mathematical […]
Across the United States last week, thousands of stories were shared at the Thanksgiving table. And Claremont McKenna College senior, Sarah Chen was the talk of her family’s Thanksgiving as her mother, father and younger brother told guests about how the Alaskan native earned the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, one of, if not the most competitive scholarships in the world.
Claremont School of Theology is proud to announce that it is the recipient of a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. These funds will help the school sharpen its educational vision and reinvent its operational structures to form church leaders for service to a profoundly changing church.
Claremont’s San Antonio High School was recognized this week as an Apple Distinguished School, one of only 690 from 36 countries around the globe, and the only continuation school in the world to be honored with the coveted distinction.
by Gabriel Fisher It’s 11:40 a.m. I sit on the concrete ground to the side of the outdoor COVID-19 testing stations, waiting to observe students passing through. Two people have approached since I started writing a minute ago. Already, both students sneeze repeatedly when they insert testing swabs up their nostrils. Once they transfer their […]
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com On Wednesday afternoon, all eyes were on Webb School senior Victor Zhang. Students, faculty, and staff at the school have heard talk over the last few days about the senior who built a go-cart from scratch and on Wednesday, all got to see Zhang’s go-cart in action as the student […]
With over 100 in attendance, there was no shortage of people ready to show support for CLASP (Claremont After-School Programs) during their annual event on Sunday. The gathering was in part a fundraiser, but also focused on honoring Jan Creasey, photo above, the CLASP program director from 2015 to 2021. Creasey’s leadership and commitment played […]
By Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com Claremont High School’s head varsity football coach Shane Hile ended Friday’s game against Laguna Beach with a huge grin on his face as he told his team, “I’ll see you next week for practice,” after the Wolfpack brushed off the Laguna Beach Breakers, 38-7, during the second round of the […]
The big news this week for Claremont Unified School District is its elementary school students are now eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a move officials anticipate will help to keep more kids healthy and in school.
Creative, collaborative and committed — these are a few words that can be used to describe Citrus College in its efforts to support students in a remote learning environment.
It was a special Friday night for Claremont High School senior August Waggener, who at halftime of the CHS homecoming game was crowned homecoming queen.
It was a homecoming night to remember for the Claremont High School varsity football team, who utterly dominated the Chaffey High School Tigers, running out 37-0 final on Friday. It seems almost cut and dry to say both the offense and defense did their job, but that’s exactly what happened.
Surrounded by his friends and family, senior Viraj Urkudey was crowned Claremont High School’s homecoming king on Friday, October 27 during a special presentation at Memorial Park. This year’s ceremony kicked off at 3 p.m. in front of an audience of about 250 CHS students and parents who were introduced to this year’s grand marshals […]