Meet Karli, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

(ROCKWALL, TX – Oct. 3, 2017) It’s nice to meet you; I am Karli. I love to give kisses and play. I could really use a new fur-ever home and you look like just the human to help me out with that. I know it is a big favor to ask you since we just met […]

ShangriLlama: Local ranch offers unique animal adventure

ShangriLlama: Local ranch offers unique animal adventure

(ROCKWALL, TX – Oct. 2, 2017) Just thirty or so minutes from downtown Rockwall, tucked away in an undisclosed location near Southfork, sits a rather unusual private ranch known as ShangriLlama. If you’re lucky enough to learn of its existence through word of mouth or the occasional Groupon offering, you can join dozens of curiosity […]

Blue Ribbon News October print edition hits mailboxes throughout Rockwall, Heath

Blue Ribbon News October print edition hits mailboxes throughout Rockwall, Heath

ROCKWALL/HEATH/FATE, TX (Oct. 1, 2017) Here’s a digital look at our October print edition. Our print publication delivers monthly to more than 20,000 homes and businesses throughout Rockwall and Heath.  Extra copies are available for pick up at the Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce, the JER Chilton YMCA, the Rockwall County Library and various local businesses. Meals on Wheels […]

Science in Action: If you detect something, do something

AstroDad makes potential discovery of new planetary nebula (ROCKWALL, TX – Sept. 25, 2017) On Friday night, 22 September, 2017 at my observatory in Oklahoma, I imaged the Pisces galaxy cluster with my deep sky galaxy setup. This equipment consists of an 11-inch Celestron XLT schmidt-cassegrain compound telescope and a Quantum Scientific QSI-583WSG cooled CCD astronomy […]

Rockwall and Rockwall-Heath matchup in I-30 Classic Friday

(ROCKWALL, TX – Sept. 25, 2017) Rockwall High School and Rockwall-Heath High School will meet on the football field again this year in the Heritage GMC Buick I-30 Classic. The Heritage GMC Buick I-30 Classic will be at 7:30 p.m. this Friday, September 29 at the Wilkerson-Sanders Memorial Stadium in Rockwall. The official tailgate party, […]

Meet Bruiser, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

(ROCKWALL, TX – Sept. 25, 2017) I am Bruiser. I’m a Chihuahua mix weighing in at 10 pounds and I am approximately 12 years old. I am a closet love bug. There – I said it. I love nothing more than sitting next to you while we watch TV, sleeping next to you in bed […]

Technology Night at Jones Elementary

(ROCKWALL, TX – Sept. 23, 2017) On September 19th, the Jones Elementary Library sponsored Technology Night in the Jones Cafeteria. The goal of the event was to promote the technology that Jones Elementary has available for teachers and students to utilize. Families programmed robots including Ollie, Sphero, Parallax Scribbler, BeeBot, Codeapillar, and Robot Mouse. These […]

Sept. 24: Gold Star Mothers & Family Day

Open Letter from American Legion Post Commander (ROCKWALL, TX – Sept. 23, 2017) Many outside the military don’t know what a Gold Star Mother is or what Gold Star Families are. When an active-duty service member dies, his or her mother automatically becomes a Gold Star Mother. It’s a distinction that no mother wants, but it’s […]