After nearly a year, the committee tasked with crafting a third police station package for voters held their final meeting last Wednesday.
The Police Station Citizens’ Advisory Committee (PSCAC), a 15-member body created by former mayor Opanyi Nasiali in August 2018 in the wake of Measure SC’s defeat, hammered out a plan that would appeal to Claremont voters—a 30-year, $17.5 million parcel tax to retrofit and expand the existing building at 570 west Bonita Avenue.
Don’t expect to see any Bird or Lime scooters along our sidewalks anytime soon, but a regional bike-share program could be coming to Claremont streets.
The council voted unanimously to extend an emergency moratorium on scooter rental businesses in Claremont, which was set to expire this coming September.
But the council also voted to look into a bike-share program from the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (SGVCOG).
A drowsy driver crashed into a tree in front of a Mills Avenue home early Sunday morning, destroying a memorial to a killed Claremont woman. The driver, a 31-year-old man, was driving eastbound on Radcliffe Drive when he allegedly fell asleep and crashed his Honda Accord into the tree in front of the house just before 3 a.m. Amy Dellosa, who lives at the house, awoke to the sounds of tires screeching and a crash. Photo by Drew Ready
The finishing touches to the exterior of the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College on College Avenue are mostly completed, but the 33,000- square-foot museum won’t open until later in 2020. It will take a year to move the huge art collection and then install - opening exhibitions. But there’s already artwork out front, including the very tall and thin-legged “ghandiG” by Peter Sheldon. COURIER photo/Peter Weinberger
Knight’s Inn renovation plans approved by architectural commission
At its last meeting, the city’s architectural commission approved the design and site plan for the full renovation and addition to the existing Knight’s Inn Motel, located at 721 S. Indian Hill Blvd.
Plans include demolition of the existing lobby building, a full remodel of the existing motel building.
The conflict between the city and the Claremont Police Officers Association (CPOA) is heating up.
Corporal Nick Martinez spoke to the city council during public comment, two weeks after the council voted to push through terms and conditions of employment with the CPOA after the group reached an impasse with city negotiators.
Eight other officers, all wearing matching black CPOA shirts, sat in the chambers while Cpl. Martinez spoke.
The CPOA, in part, had asked for a pay raise during months of negotiations, which broke down in February.
The city council is moving full-steam ahead on placing a sales and use tax increase on the November 5 ballot.
The council voted 4-0 to pass the ordinance, placing the measure on the ballot Tuesday night. The measure seeks to increase the city’s sales tax rate by three-quarters of a cent, from 9.5 percent to the state cap of 10.25 percent.
According to witnesses, a flatbed truck that was part of the parade pulled off Harrison Avenue into the parking lot at the Joslyn Senior Center then suddenly accelerated, gaining significant speed before crashing into a flagpole, an arbor and bushes adjacent to the center. “I heard these girls scream and ran over, and I saw the flag pole come down,” said Upland resident William Gordon. COURIER photo/Steven Felschundneff
Police arrested a man after he led police on a pursuit in a stolen car. Officers tried to pull over a 2005 Honda Accord around 10:40 a.m. at Indian Hill and San Jose after discovering it had been stolen, Lt. Walters said. The driver, later identified as 34-year-old Gabriel Cortes, didn’t stop, and led police on a pursuit into Pomona.
Theater company Ophelia’s Jump and Claremont’s Pomona College will once again co-sponsor the Midsummer Shakespeare Festival from July 11 to July 21 at the college’s Sontag Greek Theater, an outdoor amphitheater originally built in 1910.
The festival opens this Thursday, July 11 with Taming of the Shrew.
Surveillance footage from the scene showed the two suspects smashing the window at 4:44 a.m., entering the business, walking into an office area and rummaging through the desk and surrounding shelves.
Around 11:09 a.m., Claremont police responded to the local pharmacy on the 300 block of south Indian Hill Boulevard regarding three suspects observed running into the business wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks, police said.
Police survey the scene where a truck that had just finished Claremont's Fourth of July parade crashed at the Joslyn Center on Thursday. Witnesses said the truck accelerated quickly once it got into the parking lot, crashing into a pole and some bushes. The driver was the only one injured.
After years of construction, Keck Graduate Institute’s new student housing buildings are just about finished.
Dubbed the “Oasis KGI Commons,” the two four-story buildings are the latest new housing and classroom facilities for the relatively young Claremont graduate school, which bills itself as “the first higher education institution in the US dedicated exclusively to applied life sciences.”
