Landscape tax, the Paris Agreement and Facebook were hot topics at Tuesday night’s city council meeting.
The council narrowly approved Mayor Larry Schroeder’s request to join the Climate Mayors, a body of city leaders led by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti that seeks to address issues regarding climate change and the effects of greenhouse gases.
John Vincent Coppini, 45, was identified after police reviewed surveillance footage taken from The Chama, which the suspect attempted to burglarize on May 12, and Xerxes for Gents, which was burglarized on May 30.
The challenges that Claremont High School valedictorian Eric Tang has faced in his life have led him to discover some of his greatest passions and interests—science and debate.
Eric Tang was announced as the CHS valedictorian at CHS’s Renaissance Rally on June 2.
Sammeon Christian Waller, 25, is on the run after police found 82-year-old Robert McPherson suffering from head trauma in his home on the 2900 block of Gayridge Street in Pomona.
When Steve Gerali was teaching practical theology at Azusa Pacific University, he had a revealing go-to exercise.
He would ask his students if they could wake up each morning and invent a job, what would it be?
“They’d say, ‘I’d play basketball and get paid for it,’ or whatever.
Claremont High School senior Sam Yagoda received a congressional nomination from Congresswoman Grace F. Napolitano relating to his recent acceptance to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Sam, a lifelong resident of La Verne, attended the Fairplex Child Development Center, La Verne Heights Elementary and Ramona Middle School before enrolling at CHS.
A woman and her baby were hospitalized Friday evening when the SUV they were riding in collided with a pole on Towne Avenue near Briarcroft Road. According to police a 22-year-old San Dimas man fell asleep while traveling north on Towne with his girlfriend and the couple’s baby. Photo by Doug Sturgis
George Sparks, executive director of the Pomona Valley Transportation Authority and Doran Barnes, director of the Foothill Transportation Authority will discuss regional transportation at the next meeting of Active Claremont at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 15 in the Santa Fe Room at the Hughes Center, 1700 Danbury Rd. The public is invited to attend this free talk. For information, call (909) 621-2079.
Around 6:50 a.m. on Saturday, June 10, an employee of Sprouts noticed the front glass door of Golden Skin and Nail Spa was shattered and called police.
Children five years and under can keep cool this summer at the Memorial Park wading pool. The pool is open from June 19 to August 11, Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The city has also added free shuttle service for Claremont residents from both El Barrio Park and Wheeler Park. Shuttles run Monday through Friday from June 19 through July 7
Claremont High School held a ceremony on June 1 to commemorate the completion and activation of the solar array installed over the CHS parking lot and, more broadly, the completion of Claremont Unified School District’s solar power project.
CUSD has installed solar power arrays at all 11 of its sites, comprising 5,474 photovoltaic panels. See aerial video of the panels at Claremont High School and El Roble. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
After months of planning and preparation, the Renwick House was finally moved across College Avenue on Monday morning, June 5, around 1a.m. The actual move across the street took less than 10 minutes, but around an hour to maneuver in the correct position on the Pomona College campus. About 50 people—including Pomona College staff President David Oxtoby, VP Marylou Ferry, museum staff Kathleen Howe and Steve Comba—came to take photos and celebrate the big move.
The next walk you take along the Thompson Creek Trail may be a little more informative than before. That’s because the Kiwanis Club of Claremont has banded together to mark certain plants with identifying signs along the trail. The project is the brainchild of Jerry Feingold, who has been committed to the project since bringing it to the Kiwanis board in February.
