A Brief Sighting of Martin Weinberger

We were poking around the website for the Claremont Courier the other day, looking for some news that was fit to print. While there, we noticed the reference to this video on the bottom of the home page.

We were surprised and pleased to see that it featured a short recent scene with Martin Weinberger reflecting on the changes in Claremont.

It was great to see again the crusty old editor and publisher--now listed as co-owner--of the Courier. While the years are obviously flowing rather relentlessly on, we are reminded that Mr. Weinberger has owned and operated the Courier for over 50 years. We are not looking this up, but our recollection is that he bought the paper towards the beginning of 1955. His mark on the paper and on this community is huge. Councilmembers and college presidents have come and gone, businesses have sprouted, grown, flourished, and died, and still Martin Weinberger has put out two newspapers a week, every week.

We were a little surprised and disappointed that the community didn't make a bigger deal of 50 years of Mr. Weinberger's ownership of the Courier when that milestone passed a couple of years ago. He deserves our continued thanks.

This article from La Verne Magazine done in 2005 is a nice story of Martin Weinberger and his newspaper. It appears that his tragic flaw is being a Yankees fan. Well, he is only human and has human failings.

We suggest you take a look at the Courier video here. Be sure to pay attention at the very last when Mr. Weinberger gets his closeup. If you see the years in his face, it is because that face has seen and those hands have chronicled everything that has happened in this town for over five decades.

We wish him well.