Safety Town Hall Meeting at Williams MS, Feb. 28

Safety Town Hall Meeting at Williams MS, Feb. 28

The Rockwall ISD will hold a Town Hall Meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28 in the library at Williams Middle School. The district’s Director of Safety and Security will give parents a security update during the first part of the meeting. Following the program, audience members will have an opportunity to meet in small […]

Elementary schools collect canned food for Helping Hands

Local Rockwall County elementary schools are collecting canned food for the Helping Hands Food Pantry as part of “Student Serving Others” Day. Each elementary campus is holding a canned food drive leading up to SSO day: All collected food will go to Helping Hands. A student team (determined at your campus) will design and build […]

Resourcing Edge celebrates with ribbon cutting

The Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for Resourcing Edge, located at 1309 Ridge Road, Suite 200 in Rockwall, in the four-story building next to The Commons. Resourcing Edge provides an integrated service which can cost-effectively manage its clients’ critical human resource responsibilities by supplying administrative relief and allocating or assuming many […]

Child nutrition managers earn grants for nutrition/fitness program

(Rockwall ISD) At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees on Monday, Feb. 20, two Rockwall ISD campus cafeteria managers were recognized for their efforts to successfully secure grants to start a campus-based nutrition/fitness program called Fuel Up to Play 60. Karen Siedloczek, the child nutrition manager at Virginia Reinhardt Elementary, […]

Reading for Adults students earn U.S. citizenship

The Rockwall County Library’s Reading for Adults  volunteer tutors have helped Elsy Villatoro and Vitoria Mitchell become U.S. citizens by tutoring them  in the library’s Citizenship preparation class. Elsy Villatoro is originally from  El Salvador.  She moved to the U.S. in 2006 and has been taking ESL and Citizenship classes through the Reading for Adults […]

Relay for Life a tradition for the Hall family

Family rocked by cancer stays strong in spirit The Halls’ participation in Relay For Life, the American Cancer Society’s signature fundraising event, has become a family tradition. When Dwayne and Mary Hall’s daughter, Adrienne, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, they whole-heartedly supported her efforts in the first Rockwall/Rowlett Relay For Life in 1998. […]

What you need to know about 401(k) retirement plans

Luncheon to address retirement plans for sponsors, participants Business owners and their employees won’t want to miss the next Brown Bag Lunch hosted by the Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 14 at the Chamber offices, located at 697 E. Interstate 30, between Discount Tires and Lakepointe Church. The subject will be […]

Meet Rex, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

Meet Rex, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

This friendly three-year-old needs your help. Rex needs to start eating some quality food so he can put some fat back on his bones. He’s a handsome, active and intelligent dog. With his love of the outdoors, he’d be a wonderful exercise companion.Just make sure he gets something to eat before he goes out to […]

Mardi Gras at The Harbor in Rockwall

Pick a party or visit them all! (Rockwall/Lake Ray Hubbard) Fat Tuesday festivities at The Harbor on Lake Ray Hubbard in Rockwall include food and drink specials and live music by The Zydeco Kings outside at Dodie’s Cajun Restaurant; indoors enjoy DJ Sergio. It’s open mic night at Agave on Tuesday; followed by karaoke on […]

Volunteer tutor training at Rockwall County Library

Rockwall County Library will hold volunteer tutor training on Saturday, March 24 for all interested adults who want to tutor GED or ESL in the Reading for Adults program. The GED training will be from 9 a.m. to noon. The ESL training will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; bring a sack lunch. Training […]