Wanted! Vintage photos, stories of Heath, TX

ROCKWALL, HEATH, TX (Dec. 23, 2014) Local resident and Blue Ribbon News staff writer/reporter Austin Wells is compiling a photographic history of Heath and is looking for your help! Austin is assembling historic images of Heath and the stories that go with them to include in an upcoming book to be published by Arcadia Publishing, […]

Sol Villasana to sign ‘Dallas’ Little Mexico’ Sept. 18th

Sol Villasana, Rockwall resident, lawyer, writer, and community advocate, will sign Dallas’  Little Mexico at 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., September 18, 2014, at the Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak Street, Dallas, Texas. ROCKWALL,TX. (September 15, 2014) Nearly one hundred years ago, Sol Villasana’s family had its U.S. beginnings in Dallas’s Little Mexico, the […]

‘The truth about who killed John F. Kennedy and why’

Author, historian Jim Gatewood presents theory on Kennedy’s assassination to Rock Ridge residents ROCKWALL, TX (August 7, 2014) Last week, Rock Ridge Assisted Living and Memory Care residents were treated to an inside scoop on the assassination of John F. Kennedy by author and historian Jim Gatewood. Gatewood addressed a dining room packed with attentive […]

Local author’s first novel, BLOOD PROFIT$, just released

(May 1, 2014) When the safety and soul of the United States are threatened, three once-naive  Americans risk the ultimate sacrifice to uncover and expose a global conspiracy to defraud the nation of trillions of dollars in an operation funded by Washington war profiteering and illegal drug sales. The despicable activities are sanctioned by the CIA, […]

Heath author publishes third novel, Promises

ROCKWALL / HEATH, TX (April 17, 2014) Carolyn Roosth of Heath has just published her third novel, Promises, which follows last year’s publication of Anger. Carolyn grew up on a farm outside a small town in East Texas.  She graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in English and Speech and completed her […]

Local author book signing at Half Price Books Rockwall

ROCKWALL, TX (March 31, 2014) Novelist Joe B. Hewitt will offer and sign his new book, My Love, My Enemy, from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 19 at Half Price Books in Rockwall. Men will see it as a spy thriller, and women will see it as a romance, the author said. My Love, […]

Launch party for Rockwall author’s ‘Fortunate Son’ March 18

ROCKWALL, TX (March 15, 2014) A launch party will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 at the Blackfriar Pub, 2621 McKinney Ave in Uptown, celebrating the release of FORTUNATE SON by Rockwall author, attorney, artist, and self-trained historian David Marlett. Combining elements of a historical odyssey, a courtroom drama, and an epic adventure, FORTUNATE SON […]

‘Heaven is for Real’

‘Heaven is for Real’

Editor’s Note: Originally published in January 2012, we thought we’d share Blue Ribbon News special contributor Patti Richter’s review of Heaven is for Real, as folks anxiously await the release of the movie.  Heaven is for Real—by Todd Burpo, with Lynn Vincent A review by Patti Richter “Over Five Million Copies in Print” provides sufficient […]

Launch party for Rockwall author’s ‘Fortunate Son’ March 18

ROCKWALL (February 19, 2014) A launch party will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 at the Blackfriar Pub, 2621 McKinney Ave in Uptown, celebrating the release of FORTUNATE SON by Rockwall author, attorney, artist, and self-trained historian David Marlett. Combining elements of a historical odyssey, a courtroom drama, and an epic adventure, FORTUNATE SON is […]

‘The Best Season: The First Ninety Games’

‘The Best Season: The First Ninety Games’

ROCKWALL (February 4, 2014) My long time friend and Rockwall resident, Bob May, is an avid baseball fan. That is not quite correct, however. It would be better to say that the game of baseball pumps energetically through Bob’s veins and gives him zest for life. One of his most memorable moments was in 1949 […]