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Commitment ceremony proves love is love at any age

Life is full of twists and turns, but sometimes the road leads you right where you’re supposed to be. For Jane Harmes, 77, and Connie Kimos, 80, retiring at Pilgrim Place was a life-changer. The couple recently exchanged rings, sang each other songs, and recited vows to each other with an ordained minister presiding in front a packed house of more than 200 Pilgrims.

Residents concerned about scale of Colby Circle project

A controversial residential development approved 12 years ago will come before the architectural commission next Wednesday for an extension. The commission will decide on another two-year extension of the Colby Circle Townhomes on April 24 amid a new developer taking over. If approved, this will be the fifth extension of the project’s design approvals since 2007.

TBI to present ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ for Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration

Each year, Temple Beth Israel holds a special commemoration on Holocaust Remembrance Day (in Hebrew-Yom HaShoah) with a goal to help educate both the Jewish and the wider communities about the lessons learned from that terrible period in history, and also to honor the millions who fell victim to Nazi terror. For 2019, TBI will feature a series of readings from the Diary of Anne Frank.

Ellen Taylor: Former mayor, civic activist

To get a sense of Ellen Taylor’s prodigious gifts as an organizer and persuasive advocate, her husband, Marshall Taylor, offered a telling memory from the couple’s early days living in the tiny Nevada town of Tonopah, where he was stationed with the US Air Force. “Ellen’s academic background was in sociology and social work,” Mr. Taylor said.

Things are really heating up in the City of Trees!

LOSING EARTH: Claremont’s Scripps College hosts a free and open to the public event, “Losing Earth: A Conversation with Nathaniel Rich,” at 7 p.m. at Garrison Theater, 1030 Columbia Ave. “By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change: what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it,” read a Scripps press release.

Claremont track ends with second-place league finish

The Tuesday afternoon meet was a nonstop frenzy of activities as the five Palomares League track and field teams faced off to determine which athletes would advance to the finals and a chance at earning an individual title. The team title, unfortunately for the Pack, is already in the books as Ayala won a dual meet with Claremont last week, securing that victory. “Claremont will be second place in league,” Claremont Coach Veronica Amarasekara said.