ROWLETT, TX – March 3, 2021 — Sapphire Bay, the new $1 billion master-planned mixed-use development project on the shore of Lake Ray Hubbard with a multiphase opening beginning in 2022, recently announced that Hyatt will operate the new Sapphire Bay Resort & Conference Center on behalf of a public-private partnership with the City of Rowlett. […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 2, 2021 – Civic-minded local business owner, Frank Conselman, announced his candidacy for Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees Place 2. “Great schools are the core of great communities,” Conselman said. “I am running to ensure that as RISD grows, we remain focused on the classroom and give our students and […]
ROCKWALL, TX – MARCH 2, 2021 – Governor Greg Abbott today issued an Executive Order (GA-34) lifting the mask mandate in Texas and increasing capacity of all businesses and facilities in the state to 100 percent. The Governor made the announcement at Montelongo’s Mexican Restaurant in Lubbock in an address to the Lubbock Chamber of […]
March 2, 2021 – Governor Greg Abbott today announced that the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) has re-requested that an additional 32 counties be added to the federal Major Disaster Declaration for Individual Assistance. The Governor originally requested Individual Assistance for all 254 Texas counties on February 18th. On February 20th, the White House partially […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 2, 2021 – During the recent winter storms, Rockwall’s water usage was up by 32 million gallons. In large part, that’s because residents had to drip faucets for an entire week to keep pipes from freezing. Also, in many cases, pipes that did burst may have spilled quite a bit […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 1, 2021 — Rockwall-Heath High School graduate and McLendon-Chisholm Economic Development Committee member Christian Giadolor was recently accepted into the Mayfield Fellows Program. The Mayfield Fellows Program (MFP) is a nine-month-long entrepreneurship work-study program that aims to teach the theory and practice of entrepreneurship to Stanford undergraduates / co-terminal students. Each […]
ROCKWALL, TX – March 1, 2021 – Rockwall ISD graduate Dalton Tasset has announced his run for RISD Board of Trustees, Place 2. “I offer something totally different. Being a recent student from RISD, I understand the challenges that our students and teachers are faced with each day. I believe this perspective would benefit our […]
ROCKWALL, TX – February 26, 2021 — Members of Ebby Halliday Realtors’ Rockwall/Heath/Lake Ray Hubbard Office donated food, blankets and other essential items to area homebound seniors impacted by the winter storm. The agents saw the devastation that occurred to so many during the recent extreme winter-weather event, in which temperatures dropped into the teens […]
ROCKWALL, TX – February 26, 2021 — Today State Senator Bob Hall and State Representative Bryan Slaton filed legislation to safeguard the productivity of land in Texas and to restore fair competition to the energy sector. SB 829/HB 2372 provides for the decommissioning of solar facilities at the end of their useful life, as well […]
ROCKWALL COUNTY, TEXAS – February 25, 2021 – Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to Texas businesses and residents as a result of President Joe Biden’s major disaster declaration resulting from last week’s winter storms. The declaration currently covers 77 Texas counties, including Rockwall County. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small […]