Rockwall-Heath Highsteppers Senior Showcase 2022: Kailu Taylor 

Rockwall-Heath Highsteppers Senior Showcase 2022: Kailu Taylor 

ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (May 5, 2022) Kailu Taylor serves the Rockwall Heath Highsteppers as Lieutenant and she is a 3rd-year member. Kailu is the daughter of Brigid Taylor. Kailu has been in drill team since 7th grade. Throughout her years she has served as 8th-grade Lieutenant, Varsity Line Instructor, and Varsity Lieutenant. Kailu is an active […]

Rockwall High School Stingerettes Senior Showcase 2022: Sydney Kapllaj

Rockwall High School Stingerettes Senior Showcase 2022: Sydney Kapllaj

ROCKWALL, TX (May 5, 2022) Meet Sydney Kapllaj! She is the daughter of  Tony and Elizabeth Kapllaj. Sydney is a Junior Varsity Instructor (JVI) and assists with the RHS JV Jacket Babes. Her Junior year she served as a Rockwall Dance Instructor (RDI) and assisted with the Utley Middle School Drill Team. During her three […]

Patti Richter, On Faith: Good reasons to honor our parents

Patti Richter, On Faith: Good reasons to honor our parents

ROCKWALL, TX (May 5, 2022) The events of births decreased while the numbers of deaths climbed during our pandemic years. And many of us attended more funerals than weddings. Yet we have none other than King Solomon to tell us, “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the […]

Kukka by Sally Kilgore: Summer Daze

Kukka by Sally Kilgore: Summer Daze

ROCKWALL, TX (May 5, 2022) Three o’clock afternoon quiet suddenly shatters in cacophony; the salvo of the storm door being yanked open, and we are bombarded by ten and six-year-olds; delirious with giggles and pokes and summer fun and armfuls of backpacks, Harry Potter blankets and the flap flap of flip flops announcing that the […]

Rockwall-Heath Student Council leadership students donate over 120 confetti baskets to Lone Star CASA

Rockwall-Heath Student Council leadership students donate over 120 confetti baskets to Lone Star CASA

ROCKWALL, TX (May 5, 2022)  – The Rockwall-Heath Student Council Leadership Team recently collected items for, and donated over 120 confetti baskets with an estimated value of $3000, to Lone Star CASA, an organization which provides children in foster care with a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteer to advocate for their best interests. Each […]

Rockwall High School Stingerettes Senior Showcase 2022: Morgan Smith

Rockwall High School Stingerettes Senior Showcase 2022: Morgan Smith

ROCKWALL, TX (May 5, 2022) Meet Morgan Smith! She is the daughter of Kenneth and Kym Smith. Morgan is a 3-year member of Stingerettes and also danced her Freshman year with the RHS JV Jacket Babes. She is a Rockwall Dance Instructor (RDI), serving both her Junior and Senior years, assisting the William Middle School […]

Mean Girls opens at Dallas’ Music Hall at Fair Park

Mean Girls opens at Dallas’ Music Hall at Fair Park

Dallas, TX (March 3, 2022) – Dallas’ premiere engagement of Mean Girls — the record-breaking new musical comedy produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures based on the hit film—runs May 3-15, 2022 at the Music Hall at Fair Park as part of the Germania Insurance Broadway Series presented by Broadway […]

Rockwall-Heath Highsteppers Senior Showcase 2022: Zhen Zhen Schelee

Rockwall-Heath Highsteppers Senior Showcase 2022: Zhen Zhen Schelee

ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (May 3, 2022) Zhen Zhen serves the Rockwall-Heath Highsteppers as Line Major, and she is a 3rd-year member. Zhen Zhen is the daughter of Detra and Rob Schelee. She has been in drill team since seventh grade and has served as seventh-grade Lieutenant, eighth-grade Lieutenant, and varsity Junior Varsity Major. Zhen Zhen is […]

‘What do you mean it burned?’: Rockwall County Genealogical Society to meet May 5

‘What do you mean it burned?’: Rockwall County Genealogical Society to meet May 5

ROCKWALL, TX (May 3, 2022) The Rockwall County Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 5 in the Genealogy Room of the Rockwall County Library, 1215 E. Yellow Jacket Lane. For May’s meeting, RCGS will be joined by professional speaker John Sellers, with his presentation topic “What Do You Mean It Burned?” One […]