Claremont School News
Claremont High School Theatre Department’s production of “SIX The Musical: Teen Edition” runs at 7 p.m. February 5-7 and 1 p.m. February 7 at the Don F. Fruechte Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1601 N. Indian Hill Blvd. Tickets are $10-$15 at chstheatre2129.ludus.com.
Over the course of two days, production crews and actors from the FOX series, “9-1-1: Lone Star” visited the Pomona College campus to film scenes for an upcoming season 3 episode. COURIER photo/Andrew Alonzo
by Andrew Alonzo | aalonzo@claremont-courier.com At 10 a.m. last Friday, Claremont’s Mayor Jed Leano made a special appearance at Condit Elementary School to give thanks and city-branded pencils to Sue Felton’s second grade class for their recent, thoughtful assignment about last month’s windstorm. Following the blistering winds on January 21, which toppled over 300 trees […]
Claremont Unified School District students are reminded that today is the deadline to submit their essay entry for the 32nd annual making change contest, which offers students an opportunity “to honor and remember all that these advocates of social change have done to transform our world for the better,” City Manager Adam Pirrie wrote in a news brief.
Despite being the daughter of a teacher, Vivian Webb School’s Dean of Students Sarah Lantz said she took a round about way to teaching. Photo by Scott Nichols/The Webb Schools
by Mick Rhodes | mickrhodes@claremont-courier.com A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has upheld the terms of a 1957 agreement between the Claremont Colleges and Claremont School of Theology, clearing the way for a possible sale back to the Colleges. Judge Peter A. Hernandez ruled on January 7 the terms of the 65-year-old purchase agreement is […]
Like most everyone in public education in the U.S., the last 22 months have been trying for newly minted Claremont Unified School District President Steven Llanusa. LISTEN TO PODCAST “The board has been dealing with the COVID crisis over the two years with as much flexibility as can be expected in a situation that is […]
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 […]