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Claremont Graduate University hosted Paisley Rekdal, pictured left, and Jacqui Germain Thursday for its 2024 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards Reading and Reception. Rekdal, a 53-year-old University of Utah professor and director of the school’s American West Center, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for her 2023 book, “West: A Translation.” Kate Tufts Discovery Award honoree Jacqui Germain, 33, won for “Bittering the Wound.” Courier photos/Andrew Alonzo
Alexander Vance, an eighth grader at El Roble Intermediate School and life scout in Boy Scout Troop 407, held “The Battle of the Genres” concert on March 16 at Claremont Community School of Music’s William J. Huff recital hall in order to update the storage shelves within CCSM’s keyboard lab and to renew the school’s aging pianos.
The days are getting longer. The elms on Indian Hill are beginning to leaf out along with the sycamores in Memorial Park. Spring has arrived and with it the metaphors that the season promulgates.
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
One of the biggest issues for any owner of an electric vehicle is the infrastructure available for charging an EV. And Tesla has such a robust supply of charging stations […]
The Children’s Foundation of America’s third annual ChariTea fundraiser, presented by Claremont Lincoln University, takes place from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Granite Creek Gardens, 1580 N. Claremont Blvd., Claremont.
“We uphold the right to free speech and to protest within the lines of our long-established Claremont Colleges demonstration policy. We will not permit the presence of masked, unidentified individuals on our campus refusing to show identification when asked. Nor will we stand for harassment of visitors or racial slurs shouted at college employees – all of which have taken place this week.” Photo/courtesy of Pomona College
Protests continued Thursday after police from at least four jurisdictions — many in riot gear — descended on Pomona College Friday, April 5 and arrested 20 masked protesters after some had occupied President Gabrielle Starr’s office. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
A day after the City of Claremont published a revised draft of its sixth cycle Housing Element at ci.claremont.ca.us on April 4, developer Trumark Homes informed the city of its plan to pursue an updated “builder’s remedy” plan for La Puerta, the approximately 10-acre site of the former middle school on Forbes Avenue. The revised builder’s remedy plan seeks to construct 91 housing units, adding four additional units from the previous 87 unit builder’s remedy plan. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
By Annabelle Ink | Special to the Courier Pitzer College removed its study abroad program with the University of Haifa from its list of pre-approved programs last week, and though […]
Susan Warren will be feted in two award ceremonies this month recognizing her contributions to Pitzer College and society at large: The Upland resident and co-founder and director of Project Think is being recognized as one of the 28th Congressional District’s Women of the Year by U.S. Representative Judy Chu. Then Warren, a 1978 Pitzer grad, will be the school’s Distinguished Alumni awardee. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
Claremont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to bolster the city manager’s spending authority, allowing the current occupant, Adam Pirrie, to approve purchases and contracts worth up to $50,000 and direct competitive purchasing procedures. Courier photo/Andrew Alonzo
So “Where Am I” this week? Please email your answers — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to contest@claremont-courier.com for your chance to win a copy of the Courier’s new coffee table book of photography, “Timeless Claremont.” Photo/by David Sawhill
Over the past two winters, Mt Baldy, above, and other snow resorts have dealt with higher than average snow totals, as the current ski season continues into April. But there’s no secret it’s getting more dangerous to ski and snowboard in Southern California. Courier photo/Peter Weinberger
Claremont High School senior Hamza El Lahib was recently selected by the U.S. Department of State for its National Security Language Initiative for Youth to study in Jordan this summer.
I just finished reading Sassenberger’s first book, a moving, clear-eyed, and rollicking memoir, “Toxic Shock Records, Assassin of Mediocrity: A Story of Love, Loss and Loud Music,” which was released last month by Fluke Publishing. It tracks both his monumental love affair with Towns, who died in 2019 of complications from series of strokes that began in 2011, and his heroic championing of what was once called “underground music.”