Barstow property crime down
BARSTOW • Crime tumbled 4 percent overall in Barstow last year despite an increase in violent crimes, according to figures from the Barstow Police Department. Barstow’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report...
View ArticleBarstow shuts out VV
BARSTOW • The Barstow girls soccer team surpassed last year’s win total early in the season. Now there are loftier goals to shoot for. The Lady Aztecs hosted Victor Valley in their latest match, and...
View ArticleBarstow falls to 'rabbits
BARSTOW • The Lady Jackrabbits held a slight edge throughout the game, as Victor Valley beat Barstow, 58-39, in Desert Sky League girls basketball action Thursday night. The Lady Aztecs had the same...
View ArticleAuxiliary helps out
BARSTOW • Some of the most important jobs at Barstow Community Hospital are done by volunteer workers. For more than 50 years, the BCH Auxiliary Program has provided volunteer services to the hospital....
View ArticleIn honor of MLK
BARSTOW - More than a hundred people took part in Saturday’s 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Peace March, organized yearly by the Art and Industrial Women’s and Men’s Club. The march began at the...
View ArticleBWSL seeks players for upcoming season
BARSTOW • Women who love to play sports often find themselves without a team once they’re done with school. The Barstow Women’s Soccer League has stepped in to help fill that breach. The league is...
View ArticleBarstow honors King at annual breakfast
BARSTOW • Approximately 100 community members packed Sizzler for the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Breakfast on Monday morning. The restaurant was filled with community and church members,...
View ArticleHealth insurance broker vying for Assembly seat
LAKE ARROWHEAD • A small business owner and political newcomer is running for the 33rd Assembly District and has tabbed the incumbent’s former chief of staff to run her campaign. Michelle Ambrozic, 32,...
View ArticleBUSD to host anti-bullying workshops
The Barstow Unified School District is hosting an anti-bullying workshop for parents on Wednesday, with another workshop scheduled for Jan. 27. The anti-bullying programs aim to provide parents with an...
View ArticleVikings hoops falls to Wolverines
SAN BERNARDINO • It was a tough weekend in San Bernardino, as the Barstow Community College basketball teams both dropped road games at San Bernardino Valley Community College on Saturday. The women...
View ArticleBarstow Film Office looks to cast local aspiring actors
BARSTOW • The Barstow Film Office is looking to cast local talent for a marketing and promotional video on Saturday. According to City of Barstow spokesman Anthony Riley, the marketing and promotional...
View ArticleFour decades of legalized abortion have not snuffed out the American conscience
W hen a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices decided against natural justice, the Constitution and science that aborting unborn children was a heretofore unacknowledged right, it hit Americans like...
View ArticleBarstow thumps Adelanto
BARSTOW • Everyone got in on the action in the Lady Aztecs’ latest game. The Barstow girls basketball team hosted Adelanto on Tuesday, and played to a big, 59-15, Desert Sky League victory at Barstow...
View ArticleLewis Elementary back in session
FORT IRWIN • School was back in session at Lewis Elementary School on Tuesday, for the first time since last summer’s monsoon storm left the school 90 percent unusable. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was...
View ArticleBCH offering support groups
BARSTOW • Barstow Community Hospital will host two monthly support groups throughout 2014 for local residents suffering from diabetes and/or recovering from strokes. The Diabetes Support Group...
View ArticleChrysalis to rock Rosita's
BARSTOW • Rock band Chrysalis is preparing to celebrate the upcoming release of its latest album with a record release concert at Rosita’s Restaurant on Friday night. The Barstow-based group’s new...
View ArticleMollie’s Pub to hold fundraiser
BARSTOW • Numerous local residents and businesses are chipping in to raise funds for Xena Janelle Begay, an 8-year-old Barstow girl who needs a heart transplant. A fundraiser will be held for Xena’s...
View ArticleBarstow's Locke honored by SCIAC
REDLANDS • Earlier this month, Barstow High School graduate Steven Locke Jr. was named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's Defensive Player of the Year. The 6-2, 250-pound...
View ArticleLeaving war behind; Bearded Army vets trek from Milwaukee to LA
BARSTOW • Two Army veterans with the hopes of raising $100,000 as they trek from Milwaukee to Los Angeles made a stop in Barstow before reaching their destination. Anthony Anderson and Tom Voss began...
View ArticleAztecs soccer takes on Hawks
BARSTOW • The Barstow boys soccer team was on a three-game winning streak going into Thursday’s match. It would be a task to keep that streak going, however, as the Aztecs had to take on Silverado,...
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