Three local businesses team up to offer $100 discount

Three local businesses team up to offer $100 discount

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 19, 2017) Did you know that by the time most children attend kindergarten, they’ve watched 5,000 hours of television – enough time to earn a college degree? The average teen sends 3,000 texts per month –more than six texts per waking hour, according to the same Nielsen study. It’s easy for […]

Meet Sequoia, Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 19, 2017) Here’s Sequoia! She is a sweet five-year-old, 75 lb Golden Retriever mix looking for a forever home! Sequoia has been spayed, microchipped and fully vaccinated. Contact for more information or to meet her! Submitted by Sarah Grubbs. [ Our Blue Ribbon News Pet of the Week is proudly sponsored […]

Garrett Bothun files for Heath City Council, Place 6

(HEATH, TX – Feb. 19, 2017) Garrett Bothun of Heath filed Friday to run for Heath City Council, Place 6. Bothun is a Heath resident and owner of Garrett Bothun Consulting, primarily working with a small group of industry leading home service companies across the country. Prior to his consulting work, he spent eight years […]

Rockwall Citizens Fire Academy set to begin

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 19, 2017) Rockwall Citizen’s Fire Academy, a program designed to give participants a working knowledge of the Rockwall Fire Department, begins March 2 and runs through May 11. The 9-week session includes brief classroom discussions, with a primary focus on hands-on experience. There is no fee for enrollment. Individuals who would like to […]

Keyhole Gardening Workshop March 25

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 17, 2017) A Keyhole Garden Workshop will be held on Saturday, March 25 at the Rockwall County Library, 1215 E. Yellowjacket Lane in Rockwall.  The program will begin with registration at 9 a.m. and Dr. Deb Tolman will begin the presentation at 9:30.  After a lunch break,  workshop participants will move to the […]

Local elementary student awarded $1,000 Mathnasium scholarship

(ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX – Feb. 13, 2017) Amy-Parks Heath Elementary School student Elise Harding was recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Mathnasium of Rockwall-Heath, as part of the Mathnasium CEO Scholarship Program. Each month throughout the school year, 94.9 KLTY and Mathnasium feature a CEO who grants a scholarship to a local school-age child in grade […]

More fun with ethics

More fun with ethics

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 17, 2017) I’m going to keep this ethics and morality train rolling for this week by presenting some more fun scenarios I found while browsing the web. Let’s say you find yourself in a position to rescue one of each of the following. As fate would have it, rescuing one means […]

Historical Foundation free lecture series explores Rockwall’s 20th century transportation, roads

(ROCKWALL, TX – Feb. 4, 2017) The Rockwall County Historical Foundation and Rockwall County Historical Commission present the Sheri Stodghill Lecture Series 2017. These programs are free and open to the public from noon to 1 p.m. (usually on the second Friday of the month) in the third floor courtroom at the Historic Downtown Rockwall […]