Camp under the stars at Big Wampum Art & Music Festival

Enjoy a weekend under the stars while supporting Locks of Love and the Point Fire Department at the Big Wampum Art and Music Festival 2012, coming to Three Creeks Ranch in Point, Texas the weekend of April 20. The three-day festival includes acoustic music Friday night with Abraham Mellish Jr, Guthrie Kennard, Michael Dimitri, and Rusty Burns. Electric […]

A.C.T.O.R. presents ‘You Can’t Beat the House’

The Amateur Community Theatre of Rowlett will perform “You Can’t Beat the House,” during the last three weekends of April at Rowlett Historical Society, 3913 Main St., 75088. This comic adventure by Pat Cook is the story of two minor-league burglars caught inside a home that is up for sale. When prospective buyers Conrad and […]

Save the date for Keep Lewisville Beautiful’s Spring Clean Up

Join Keep Lewisville Beautiful from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 21 at Lewisville Residential Convenience Center, 330 W. Jones Street, for a Spring Clean Up event featuring free lunch, T-shirts, goody bags and the chance to win door prizes for all KLB volunteers. Register at keeplewisvillebeautiful.org/spring_clean_up.  KLB is also looking for event sponsors, door prize […]

Community Solutions Cooperative to host conference on family violence awareness

Join the Community Solutions Cooperative for “A Community Responds,” the first annual Family Violence and Awareness Educational Conference, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 27, 2012. Guest speakers will include Rockwall Mayor David Sweet, Rockwall County DA Kenda Culpepper, Aaron Setliff of Texas Council on Family Violence, local shelters and nonprofit leaders, civic, […]

Rare white tigers, fire-eaters, acrobats head to Frisco

New location for Kelly Miller Circus presented by the Heritage Association: at the NW corner of Frisco Square Boulevard and Frisco Street  When was the last time you were up close and personal to rare white tigers? Casey McCory will be presenting tremendously talented tigers on March 23, 24, and 25th at the Kelly – Miller […]

‘Why I Relay’ / In memory of Lance Holland

Rockwall County Relay For Life, April 27-28 “Lance Holland was my brother, not just my brother-in-law,” Dana Macalik stated emphatically. “He began dating my sister, Saundra, when they were just 13 years old. He was a fixture in my family from then on, because they weren’t just high school sweethearts. They married when they were […]

Art in March from the Forney Arts Council

Art in March from the Forney Arts Council

The Forney Arts Council has several exciting offerings this month: March 5 – 30 The Art of Trina McMillan at American National Bank Martha McWilliams shows her art at City Bank New art from Memory Wortham and Lesli and Bickey Bruce at Crumbzz/Gallery of the Arts 4 p.m. March 10  Free pottery demonstration at Crumbzz/Gallery […]

Walk the Light festival to revitalize downtown Cedar Hill

Walk the Light festival to revitalize downtown Cedar Hill

(VIDEO) Voting is underway through Feb. 29 in the GOOD Citizenship Contest, and Walk the Light is the only a Dallas-based nonprofit that is entered in this month’s GOOD Citizenship Challenge. If Walk the Light wins the challenge, they will receive a $500 grant to go toward their indoor/outdoor arts festival scheduled for  Saturday, March 24. The […]

Rick Santorum at Westlake fundraiser

An intimate crowd of nearly 100 supporters gathered at the Ranch House at the Vaquero Club in Westlake, Thursday, Feb. 23 to meet Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Conservative talk show hosts Mark Davis of WBAP radio and Glenn Beck of GBTV were also on hand. According to recent polls, Santorum’s “Faith, Family and Freedom […]