Claremont News

The Claremont Symphony Orchestra will perform a special concert Sunday, dedicated to the memory of the Suzanna Marie Capparelli.

Police are looking for a masked man who on Tuesday morning robbed the Wine and Liquor Market in Claremont.

After failing to meet No Child Left Behind standards for the first time since the federal law was put in place, Vista del Valle Elementary School officials are working to get back on track.

Curtis Havens, 18, of Claremont thoughtfully crafts a "Free Poem While You Wait" on the sidewalk of Second Street near Yale Avenue during the farmers' market in Claremont, Sunday March 6, 2010.

A suspected thief was arrested after he was found sleeping inside a woman's car.

Prosecutors are expected to file rape charges this afternoon against a Claremont High School student accused of forcing a 14-year-old girl to have sex, a Claremont police spokesman said.

Claremont Graduate University's Peter Boyer has been commissioned by the Boston Pops Orchestra to compose a work entitled, "The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers," which will be premiered during the Pops' annual series from May 18 to 22.

Quite possibly every parent who shuttles children to and from countless lessons and assorted practices wonders more than once if all of this "cultural enrichment" will ever really amount to very much.

There is a new tenant at the former Claremont Museum of Art. OBJECT Gallery opened an exhibition Friday titled "Modernist Mecca: Post-war Art, Craft, Design and Architecture" inside the former museum at Packing House.

The Claremont Unified school board unanimously approved sending out about 70 layoff notices.

Photo gallery: Teachers protest cuts School officials, students and parents staged a variety of events on campuses throughout California on Thursday to protest drastic state budget cuts made to education.

The city's Planning Commission got the message. The commission earlier this week denied a conditional use permit for a 7-Eleven convenience store that would sell beer and wine on the northeast corner of Mills Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.

Monday, March 1, 2010 CLAREMONT, California - The student movement made an unexpected move in solidarity with university employees in a large-scale action at Pomona College, a private institution and part of the Claremont consortium of colleges at the eastern edge of Los Angeles County.

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Karri Backer's path to the priesthood has not been direct or traditional. She was a high-school dropout who disliked and distrusted organized religion.

"This will be the first time we actually performed a lot of the new songs of off the new record, so it's exciting," Fiasco told New Zealand's 3 News of his show.

Fewer than 3 percent of all the colleges in the country promise that they will award enough financial aid to meet the full financial needs of admitted students in 2010.

A LIVE taping of the syndicated radio quiz show "Says You!" drew more than 1,000 people to Claremont's Bridges Auditorium on Saturday afternoon - a turnout that amazed the panelists, who hail from frigid New England.

John Lalonde as 'Sid' and Kai Chubb and 'Gladys' Candlelight Pavilion The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7 ½ Cents by Richard Bissell and with a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.

The Planning Commission voted against allowing a 7-Eleven store to open on Foothill Boulevard Tuesday night after more than 20 residents opposed the application.