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  • How L.A. Metro plans to close billion-dollar funding gaps on major rail projects
    Los Angeles Times
    The shorter first phase of the line is slated to open in 2025, two years ahead of the original date. If officials can find $465 million by October, the contractor will keep building east, adding stations in Claremont and Montclair, Balian said. To Balian, the unexpected budget problems were a reminder that Measure M’s vast list of projects ...
  • Border Patrol's Tweet That Santa Has Been 'Cleared For Entry' Into U.S. Met With Photos of Kids in Detention Center
    Newsweek
    Southern California church, Claremont United Methodist, placed Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the three Wise Men inside a cage on their property earlier this month. "In a time in our country when refugee families seek asylum at the borders and are unwillingly separated from one another, we consider the most well-known refugee family in the world ...
  • Husband and wife arrested on suspicion of stealing from collection boxes in Claremont
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
    CLAREMONT — A husband and wife were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing hundreds of pieces of mail from collection boxes in Claremont. According to Claremont police, an officer spotted a vehicle stopped on the east side of the Claremont Post Office, 140 Harvard Ave., around 3 a.m. near some blue mail-collection boxes. As the driver tried ...
  • When exactly did Tastee Freez in La Verne close? Good question
    San Gabriel Valley Tribune
    For the record, there are no shopping carts or baskets inside. Frank Zappa zig-zagged around downtown Ontario in early 1960s ‘Ford v Ferrari’ made pit stops in Ontario, Fontana, Pomona for filming Smoothie shop Podge’s to close after 23 years of blending into Claremont Village Some ‘Tastee’ campus trivia on history tour at University ...
  • Whittier bicyclist is fatally struck; Montebello driver flees but later cooperates
    San Gabriel Valley Tribune
    21-year-old Los Angeles woman identified as victim who died in multi-vehicle crash in Duarte 2 dead in separate motorcycle crashes in San Gabriel Mountains north of Claremont, Azusa 1 dead after truck yard accident in Pomona SUV crashes into Baldwin Park dialysis clinic; 3 hurt inside 1 killed, 2 injured in crash on 210 Freeway in Duarte The ...
  • True Religious Faith Demands an Unwavering Rebuke of Trumpism
    The Nation
    A Christmas nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph separated and caged, as asylum seekers detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at Claremont United Methodist Church in California in December 2019. (Getty Images / David McNew) You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism.
  • ‘Nutcracker’ performance at Pomona College wraps 25th anniversary season for Inland Pacific Ballet
    The Press-Enterprise
    (Photo by Cindy Yamanaka, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Inland Pacific Ballet delivered its final performance of “The Nutcracker” story Sunday, Dec. 22, in Bridges Auditorium at Pomona College in Claremont. The audience was treated to a show against a backdrop of falling snow, an antique sleigh and dazzling costumes. More than 80 dancers ...
  • Nativity scene depicts Holy Family as refugees in cages
    Grand Haven Tribune
    LOS ANGELES — A Methodist church in Claremont, California, unveiled a Nativity scene last weekend depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees in cages, likening one of the most well-known images of the Christmas season to photos that have become synonymous with criticism of the Trump administration’s border separation policies.
  • Osmon Gordon 'Ozzie' Way, Jr
    StarTribune
    He was born in Claremont, Minnesota, in 1933 to Osmon Gordon Way, Sr., and Lydia (Krückeberg) Way. He is preceded in death by his older sisters, Norma Way of Alameda, California, and Marjorie (Way) Lundquist of Janesville, Minnesota. Ozzie was married for nearly 60 years to Marjorie (Hellie) Way, who passed away in March 2017. He is survived ...
  • Palomares League fall sports all-league honors
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
    First team, offense: Jacob Gonzalez, Glendora, Sr.; Jacob Badawi, Ayala, Jr.; Matthew Munoz, Ayala, Sr.; Braden Lynch, Alta Loma, Sr.; Logan Moran, Claremont, Sr.; Jacob Horne, Bonita, Sr.; Ethan Durham, Bonita, Sr.; Aalias Williams, Bonita, Sr.; Ryan Campuzano, Claremont, Jr.; AJ Salgado, Glendora, Sr.; Anthony LaFrance, Ayala, Sr.;
  • Frank Zappa zig-zagged around downtown Ontario in early 1960s
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
    Alas, he died Dec. 4, 1993 at his home in the Hollywood Hills of prostate cancer. As has been explored in my column on dozens of occasions, he had numerous local connections for us — Claremont, Montclair, Cucamonga, Pomona and Ontario — from 1953-54 and 1958-1965 before he was famous. The Ontario years have gotten less attention.
  • Dance in L.A. this week: ‘The Nutcracker,’ ‘Swan Lake’ and more
    Los Angeles Times
    11 a.m. $45-$90. (949) 854-4646. thebarclay.org The Nutcracker Inland Pacific Ballet presents the holiday favorite. Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College, 450 N. College Way, Claremont. Sun., 2 p.m. $39 and up; discounts available. ipballet.org The Nutcracker Long Beach Ballet performs with a full symphony orchestra. Terrace Theater, Long Beach ...
  • Job growth solid in LA and Inland Empire, tepid in Orange County
    The Press-Enterprise
    Manfred Keil, a professor of economics at Claremont McKenna College and the chief economist for the Inland Empire Economic Partnership, said many of the newly added jobs, including in the health care field and some education jobs, do not pay well.
  • The week ahead in SoCal dance: ‘The Nutcracker,’ ‘Swan Lake’ and more
    Los Angeles Times
    11 a.m. $45-$90. (949) 854-4646. thebarclay.org The Nutcracker Inland Pacific Ballet presents the holiday favorite. Bridges Auditorium, Pomona College, 450 N. College Way, Claremont. Sun., 2 p.m. $39 and up; discounts available. ipballet.org The Nutcracker Long Beach Ballet performs with a full symphony orchestra. Terrace Theater, Long Beach ...
  • Virtual stick balancing: sensorimotor uncertainties related to angular displacement and velocity.
    National Institutes of Health
    (2)W. M. Keck Science Department, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA 91711, USA. Sensory uncertainties and imperfections in motor control play important roles in neural control and Bayesian approaches to neural encoding. However, it is difficult to ...
  • The Biggest Property And Casualty Insurance Rulings Of 2019
    Law360
    That is exactly what Pitzer College is trying to do in its dispute with Indian Harbor over coverage for lead remediation on the private college's Claremont, California, campus. The college's pollution policy with Indian Harbor required the application of New York law, but Pitzer is seeking a ruling applying the Golden State's law to the case.
  • Harriet B. Nembhard Named Dean of College of Engineering at University of Iowa
    Education
    Nembhard holds a bachelor’s degree in management from Claremont McKenna College in California; a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Arizona State University; and a master’s and Ph.D. in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. “I am looking forward to working with faculty, staff, students ...
  • From the Pulpit: Meet Mary and Elizabeth, ‘The Real Housewives of Bethlehem’
    The San Bernardino Sun
    The author concluded that one reason is that people love knowing that the lives of other people are just as messy and chaotic as their own. Through the month of December at Claremont United Church of Christ, we are pulling back the curtain and delving into all the drama and intrigue of the stories of Mary and Elizabeth in our sermon series ...
  • Car Nation
    CounterPunch
    I am not exaggerating. I bike and walk in my “small” California town. Every house has from 2 to 5 automobiles. These cars are becoming larger: mostly small-bus like vans or sports utility giants designed for fat people. Even Claremont’s colleges are addicted to polluting cars. I walk to the colleges’ library and I am confronting a sea ...
  • ‘Ford v Ferrari’ made pit stops in Ontario, Fontana, Pomona for filming
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
    It’s owned by Cal Poly Pomona. (And here I have to chide the LA Times for reporting that that filming took place at Pomona College, which is in Claremont. Pomona College officials were kind enough to direct me to the right campus for comment.) “The gates, the exterior of Enzo Ferrari’s office and some of the park scenes were shot at Cal ...