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FOR ST. Patrick's Day, two invitations came my way from friends, one to meet up at a bar, the other to see a movie.
But no, my choice of entertainment for the evening was to attend a City Council meeting in Rancho Cucamonga. Pray for me. Read Full Artice...
LIKE STUBBORN people clinging to their home despite an eviction notice, the $20million renovation of Ontario City Hall will finally displace its last holdouts: the City Council. Read Full Artice...
IT WAS an old-time L.A. weekend. I had lunch with one friend at Philippe's (founded 1908) and dinner with another at Musso and Frank Grill (founded 1919).
(Musso, by the way, is legendary for its crabby service, but our waiter was all smiles. Read Full Artice...
IN CLAREMONT, the latest civic hand-wringing is about allowing more drive-through businesses and a (gasp) 7-Eleven into town.
In other words, over protests, Claremont is poised to enter the latter half of the 20th century. Read Full Artice...
AROUND HIS downtown Pomona neighborhood, they call the quiet, white-haired artist "Father Bill." This is not an inside joke.
Bill Moore really is a Catholic priest. Read Full Artice...
MONDAY'S UPLAND City Council meeting was the first since the Feb. 8 meeting in which an irate white man rose to compare unfair criticism of City Hall to "calling a black man a... Read Full Artice...
WALKING TOURS of downtown Claremont are a monthly occurrence, but in downtown Ontario, not so much.
Ontario Heritage, the historical society, led a tour in 2004. Its second one takes place next weekend. I suppose it's been a busy six years. Read Full Artice...
THE EAGLES are coming to Ontario's Citizens Business Bank Arena on May 22 - tickets go on sale Monday - for the band's return engagement to that part of town.
Return? Yes. Read Full Artice...
ON THE humorous-news radio quiz show "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" on Saturday, guest panelist George Stephanopoulos had to answer three questions about the furry, elephant-like creature Mr. Snuffleupagus from "Sesame Street."
"Where was Mr. Read Full Artice...
WHAT WITH one thing or another - hairdressers, boarders' tables, council meetings, departing city managers, Quonset huts, radio shows, waitress-owned cafes, theater weddings, church bells - there hasn't been an "items" column here since the last day in. Read Full Artice...
THE BELL at the downtown Ontario church hadn't rung for so long - 40 years, some said, or maybe 60 years - that some members thought the bell was gone. Read Full Artice...
RIGHT AFTER Christmas, Jouni's Cafe in Upland closed suddenly after 11 years, distressing regulars who enjoyed the staff as much as the food.
Soon afterward, signs went up in the windows saying the eatery would reopen soon.
That happened Monday. Read Full Artice...
LAST WEEK'S meeting of the Ontario City Council, a.k.a. the gang that plays for fun, was the first for newly appointed City Manager Chris Hughes. Read Full Artice...
A WEDDING on Saturday is expected to draw 500 celebrants to an unusual venue: the Fox Theater.
To anyone's knowledge, this will be the first-ever wedding at the former movie theater, opened in 1931.
But this Pomona story runs deeper than that. Read Full Artice...
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. Read Full Artice...
ROOM AND board used to be what you'd get if you rented a room in a boarding house. As part of your rent, three times per day you could sit down for a meal of whatever came out of the kitchen, passing serving bowls, platters and butter around the table. Read Full Artice...
GREG DEVEREAUX officially ends his 12-year tenure as Ontario city manager today before taking the helm of San Bernardino County government.
Rarely has the phrase "out of the frying pan and into the fire" been more apt. Read Full Artice...
UPLAND IS normally such a placid city - "placid" being a polite word for "dull" - that for a columnist, any hint of public dysfunction is like catnip. Read Full Artice...
CITRUS TREES still crowd the expansive corner lot in the middle of suburban Rancho Cucamonga, blocking the view of the property's interior. Driving past the rural property at Church and Ramona, you feel as if you just got a glimpse of the city's past. Read Full Artice...
SOMETIMES THE stars align; sometimes they crash into one another. Such was the case for me Tuesday night, when the season premiere of "Lost" coincided with an Ontario City Council meeting. Read Full Artice...
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