Senior Spotlight: Alexa Cox, Rockwall-Heath High School

Senior Spotlight: Alexa Cox, Rockwall-Heath High School

(ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – April 6, 2020) Senior Alexa Cox of Rockwall-Heath High School has spent 10 years in the BusyBee 4H Club, serving as the president this year. She plays cello in the JV orchestra and is also a member of the JV gymnastics team. Alexa spends her Saturday’s volunteering at the Rockwall County Library […]

Senior Spotlight: Cole McMahan, Rockwall High School

Senior Spotlight: Cole McMahan, Rockwall High School

(ROCKWALL, TX – April 5, 2020) Cole McMahan, Senior at Rockwall High School, will be attending Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma.  Cole will be a scholarship athlete for the Crimson Storm, playing the same position he played for the 2019 State Semifinalist Rockwall Yellowjackets for the past two years as a starter, middle linebacker. Cole […]

Patti Richter, On Faith: Panic, Peace, and Paradise Lost and Found

Patti Richter, On Faith: Panic, Peace, and Paradise Lost and Found

(ROCKWALL, TX – April 5, 2020) My heart beats faster as the clock strikes midnight in the fairy tale movie. Cinderella is running down the castle steps with the awful realization that her beautiful clothing will soon return to rags. I recall two episodes of real panic, and both involved the same child. Our son, at […]

Senior Spotlight: Chloe Davis, home school senior

Senior Spotlight: Chloe Davis, home school senior

(ROCKWALL, TX – April 5, 2020) Chloe Davis is a senior homeschool student active in Scouts BSA, hoping to earn her Eagle Scout rank in September. She’s also an active member at First Baptist Church Rockwall, member of the Rockwall Youth Advisory Council, a student pilot, and is a full time dual credit student this year at […]

Take stand against child abuse with #GoBlueForKids yard signs now available

Take stand against child abuse with #GoBlueForKids yard signs now available

(ROCKWALL, TX – April 5, 2020) April is designated as National Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month, and as the Rockwall County community finds creative ways to #GoBlueForKids through blue ribbons on mailboxes, car antennas and online promotions, here’s one more more way to show support. With a $10 donation to the CAC, you can […]

Rockwall YMCA staff rallies around local in need during COVID-19

Rockwall YMCA staff rallies around local in need during COVID-19

When the staff at J.E.R. Chilton YMCA at Rockwall learned that one of its senior members, Sue N., was having trouble meeting her basic needs, like buying groceries, they knew it was time to come together and support a member of the Y community in more ways than one. “As a charity organization, we rely […]

Good Neighbor: Meet Lindsay Mitchell, Rockwall Boys & Girls Club Board President

Good Neighbor: Meet Lindsay Mitchell, Rockwall Boys & Girls Club Board President

Meet Lindsay Mitchell, President of the Board of Directors of the Rockwall Boys & Girls Club. Lindsay grew up in Rockwall as the youngest of three siblings – Amy, Molly and Bo – and has lived here for 35 years. She works as a licensed real estate agent and loves helping people find their dream […]