Hinkley News

HINKLEY Fireworks were blamed for a weekend fire in Hinkley which burned a quarter of an acre field adjacent to a dairy farm, according to San Bernardino County Fire Department Spokeswoman Tracey Martinez.

BARSTOW Two local schools outside city limits will be under the watch of Barstow Police School Resource Officers beginning this fall after the City Council approved to amend a memorandum early this month.

First-graders Ariel Gibbs, 6, left, and Carmela Morales, 7, right blow bubbles during a fun activity on the final day of school at Hinkley School in Hinkley, Calif.

On the corner of Hinkley Road and Santa Fe Ave, staff at Hinkley School orchestrated water events for some students, distracting themselves from soaking in the reality that Thursday was the end.

The Hinkley Elementary/Middle School, the life center of a town struggling for decades with an infamous plume of contaminated groundwater, will close Thursday, the victim of cost-cutting at the Barstow Unified School District.

BARSTOW A group of spitired local student-athletes took part in the first-ever two-mile Cross Country Invitational, held at the Robert A. Sessions Memorial Sportspark in Barstow on Saturday.

HINKLEY Southern California Edison's new Sandlot substation located in Hinkley will become operational on June 7, according to SCE spokesman Paul Klein.