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Claremont

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Claremont.

1 City (1990 pop. 32,503), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in a citrus farm area at the foot of the San Gabriel Mts.; inc. 1907. Mainly residential, the city is an educational center and has light manufacturing. The Claremont Colleges Claremont Colleges, at Claremont, Calif.; including five liberal arts and sciences colleges and two graduate schools; founded 1925, known until 1961 as the Associated Colleges at Claremont. Their history began with Pomona College (inc.
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 are there, as is the Southern California School of Theology. A large botanical garden is also there.

2 City (1990 pop. 13,902), Sullivan co., SW N.H., in a farm and dairy area, on the Sugar River near its junction with the Connecticut; inc. 1764. It has plants that manufacture footwear, apparel, brushes, textiles, machinery, and paper. The oldest Roman Catholic church in the state (begun 1823) is there, and in nearby West Claremont is Union Church, the state's oldest Episcopal church (begun 1773). A replica of a pre-Revolutionary fort complex is nearby.



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Psychologists Andrew Lac and William Crano of the Claremont Graduate University examined various studies to find the connection between parental monitoring (when parents know where their children are, what company are they in and what they are doing) and adolescent marijuana use.
Byline: ALEX TURNER FARMERS understand better than most the truth in the motto "reap what you sow", and Andrew Pimbley, of Claremont Farm Shop and Claremont Kitchen, in Wirral, is seeing the benefits of his hard work.
Around 120 residents from the Claremont estate in Bensham are invited to see the choices available at an event at The New Bensham Arms, Claremont Street, on August 5.
 
 
 
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