Claremont School News
About 70 Sycamore Elementary School students and 30 chaperones took a bus to see “Swan Lake” at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on March 9. The trip was arranged by Foothill Philharmonic Committee, as part of LA Philharmonic Orchestra’s Symphonies for Youth, which allows third grade students to enjoy a concert and ballet. For more information, visit laphil.com. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
With Governor Jerry Brown proposing a new K-12 funding system, the future of the Baldy View Regional Occupational Program is uncertain. At the Thursday, March 7 meeting of the Claremont […]
There’s no getting around it. Johnathan Thomas, a local psychologist and the founder of a fast-growing local meditation group, is a bibliophile. He devours 3 books a week, furthering his […]
If it had to happen to any production, this is the one. With the opening of the newly renovated Don Fruechte Theatre for Performing Arts delayed until March 22, the […]
It was all good news when President Barack Obama appointed Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley to the 12-member J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. In this prestigious position—for which […]
If you have a little bit of talent and a lot of dedication, greatness is within your grasp. This was the message delivered by Lincoln Peirce, author of the popular […]
One evening each week, dozens of boys in cuffed jeans and white T-shirts and girls in poodle skirts and ponytails gathered in the El Roble gym to dance the Jitterbug, […]
After a long day serving as director of the Claremont United Methodist Preschool and then traveling to Chaffey or Citrus College to teach classes in child development, you might think […]
In June, a fresh face joined Claremont Unified School District, that of new Superintendent of Schools Jim Elsasser. Though only 6 months into his post helming Claremont schools, Mr. Elsasser […]
It wasn’t a signal of the start of the holiday season but instead a hallmark of excellence as Claremont After-School Programs (CLASP) joined 58 recipients in winning the state’s leading […]
Paul Buch, cantor at Temple Beth Israel in Pomona, is “a very satisfied Amazon customer.” He regularly visits the online retailer to buy digital books, which he downloads onto his […]
When the Claremont High School Marching Band lost its winning ways, band director Melanie Riley-Gonzalez knew she had to act. The band had grown just enough to edge the Wolfpack […]
There was cause for jubilation on Friday, November 9 at Oakmont Elementary School during a morning Celebration of Success. Not only did the school make a startling 86-point gain in […]
Sumner librarian Marleene Bazela is keenly aware of the magic of books, and she runs her library accordingly. Her reading nook is a wonderland of literary love, where kids stop […]
El Roble students got the holiday season, and their hearts, started this Wednesday with their annual Turkey Trot run. It is the fourth year the local middle-schoolers hit the track […]
Leo Cervantes felt apprehensive Thursday as he stood in front of 31 Sycamore Elementary School peers, expounding on the Day of the Dead. The sugar skulls and remembrances of the […]
El Roble Intermediate School students looking for an after-school hangout have found refuge in the play yard of the Claremont Presbyterian Children’s Center. For the past few years, the local […]