Where is the Trolley?
Superbia et Ira
For all of those thinking of saving a little money by stay-cationing this summer, here's a thought - how about gathering up the kids and the ol' tent and sleeping bags and heading on over to the Alexander Hughes Community Center for a campout?
Progress has its downside. A second resident chimes in regarding Verizon FiOS:
At last Saturday's city budget meeting, the Claremont City Council approved a $2.32 million budget makeover, the Daily Bulletin reported. The changes were need to help the City deal with what the city was saying was going to be a $2.69 million shortfall in Fiscal' [...] 
Even though it's been hot, you may want to keep your window and doors locked at night. The Claremont Police Department website reports a home on the 1100 block of Briarcroft Rd. near Towne Ave. was burglarized over the past weekend while the occupants were' [...] 
VERIZON DIGS CLAREMONT
The College Ave. affordable housing project cleared another hurdle Wednesday night when the Claremont Architectural Commission gave its conditional approval on a 4-2 vote.
It was difficult for Claremont officials to paper over the bad news at last week's State of the City luncheon. The event, hosted by Claremont Chamber of Commerce, was by all accounts well-attended, and all five councilmembers took shots at finding silver linings in Claremont's fiscal [...] 
Our Twitter feed captured the following tweets from someone who appears to be a City employee at an "all hands" meeting at City Hall this morning:
The designs for Claremont's affordable housing project at 111 S. College Ave. (the old Claremont Courier site) go before the City's Architectural Commission this Wednesday, July 22, at 7pm. The commission meets in the City Council Chambers at 225 W. 2nd St.
The City of Claremont offers several "Cool Zones" for residents to' [...]
The City [...]
Soundrack for the Holocaust
Update Below
We received an email from a reader who noted more than a wee bit of hypocrisy from Claremont League of Women Voters Action VP Ellen Taylor. Taylor had an opinion piece on global warming in yesterday's Daily Bulletin.
It may just be the recession making people more desperate, but crime, or at least our perception of it, seems to be on the rise.
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David Allen found a YouTube video tribute to the Claremont Trolley. The screenshots say everything you need to know about the ol' Ghost Trolley's popularity, which steadily declined following its debut last October:
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The local MSM (mainstream media for the acronymically impaired) had plenty of coverage of last Saturday's Claremont 4th of July celebration.
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A friend sent a few pictures of the Fourth of July Parade on Indian Hill:
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Mayor Calaycay moved to introduce an ordinance... blah, blah, blah..."waive further reading, place the ordinance on first reading and refer it to the City Attorney for not less than five days..."
''Le Quai Malaquais et l’Institut'', 1903
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The 4th of July will be upon us soon, which for Claremont means lots of things - a pancake breakfast, a 5K run/walk, the festival in Memorial Park with food, games, music, and the annual Speakers Corner, the 4th of July parade, and the evening fireworks [...] 
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis (pictured, right) was back in the San Gabriel Valley last week to accept an award from the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership and the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments.
The Daily Bulletin has an article by Liset Marquez, who writes about Governor Schwarzenegger and the state legislature's threat to tap into gas tax revenues that are supposed to go to local governments for road maintenance and repairs.
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