Cooking with Ease: Make the Most of Fall Food Holidays

Cooking with Ease: Make the Most of Fall Food Holidays

ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 30, 2022) October is an easy month to celebrate. It’s the beginning of fall, State Fair season, high school football, cooler weather. But it also boasts a list of food holidays! At this point, you may be wondering what a food holiday is. Well, it’s a real-life designated holiday made to celebrate […]

Adventures with BRN: Journey through a trail of intrigue at ‘Pumpkin Nights’

Adventures with BRN: Journey through a trail of intrigue at ‘Pumpkin Nights’

ARLINGTON, TX (Sept. 30, 2022) Blue Ribbon News was invited to experience Pumpkin Nights at Howell Farms in Arlington last night. Members of our team enjoyed a magical journey through pumpkin land with 10-foot-tall jack-o-lanterns, the world’s largest pumpkin guitar, a 40-foot, hand-carved, smoke-breathing dragon, and a cornucopia of photo ops! We visited several vendor […]

Rockwall Rotary Club shoots for the stars

Rockwall Rotary Club shoots for the stars

ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 27, 2022) It was a perfect day to raise money and awareness for the Rockwall Rotary Club’s important causes. The club recently held their annual Clay Shoot fundraiser, and raised more than $30,000 to give back to the community as well as to Rotary International causes. There were 35 volunteer Rotarians on […]

How to throw a Backyard Harvest Festival

How to throw a Backyard Harvest Festival

ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 27, 2022) Want a different way to celebrate the fall season? Host your very own backyard Harvest Festival! I set up carnival tic-tac-toe using a card table, tablecloth, electrical tape laid out in a grid, and two kinds of pumpkins. Have baskets next to the table for the pumpkins and then play […]

Lone Star CASA celebrates volunteers’ years of service in Rockwall & Kaufman counties

Lone Star CASA celebrates volunteers’ years of service in Rockwall & Kaufman counties

ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 27, 2022) – Lone Star CASA recently celebrated Sharon Chapman, Sarah Gray, Ellen Hairston, Phyllis Hulse, Julie Klutts, Doug Pritchard, and Betty Shupp for their multiple years of service to children in the foster care system in Rockwall and Kaufman Counties. Since its inception, Lone Star CASA and its team of volunteers […]

Rowlett Arts & Humanities Commission announces photography contest winners

Rowlett Arts & Humanities Commission announces photography contest winners

ROWLETT, TX (Sept. 26, 2022) People, Places & Things served as both the contest theme as well as the categories for judging in the Rowlett Arts and Humanities recent photography contest.  To recognize the changing digital photography landscape, the Commission added a new category of Phone images.  There were many terrific entries in each category. […]

Meet Lovely, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

Meet Lovely, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 26, 2022) Senior sweetheart! Lovely is a 10-year old lady who certainly lives up to her name. This pretty girl is looking for a quiet, happy home where she can retire. She likes other laid-back dogs who are past the “wrestle-and-play” age, but not those pesky kitties! Lovely is friendly to men, women, and […]

Rockwall School of Music participates in National ‘Keep Music Alive’ Week

Rockwall School of Music participates in National ‘Keep Music Alive’ Week

Offers FREE Introductory Lessons In October ROCKWALL, TX (Sept. 26, 2022) – For the 7th consecutive year, Rockwall School of Music is partnering with the Keep Music Alive organization in celebration of the national ‘Kids Music Day’. During the week of October 2 – 9, music facilities across the US are joining together to bring […]

Patti Richter, On Faith: God’s Great Big, Wonderful World

Patti Richter, On Faith: God’s Great Big, Wonderful World

ROCKWALL COUNTY, TX (Sept. 26, 2022) Kids returning to school will no doubt learn some amazing things their parents never knew or else have forgotten. Some of us could benefit from studying along with them, suspending part of our daily grind in exchange for a bit of amazement over this big world. History’s appeal increases […]