Rockwall County 4H members celebrate season with giving

ROCKWALL, TX (Dec. 23, 2014) The Rockwall County 4-H Club held their annual County-wide Christmas party on Friday December 5, 2014. The fun included a county Consumer Decision Making contest, lots of food, float decorating and CornHole tournaments. Over 90 4-H members and their families attended the event. The party included a service project of […]

Measuring up: Culinary Arts students pour passion, talent into cooking

Be sure to check out their holiday recipes below! ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (Dec. 21, 2014) Cody Hayes is inspiring a select group of Rockwall ISD students to pursue the joy of cooking, starting with Pumpkin Rolls – more than 600 of them! Selling Pumpkin Rolls is an annual fundraiser for the Culinary Arts program, necessary because it […]

How did you meet your mate?

ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (Dec. 21, 2014) Each year, Blue Ribbon News asks local couples how they met, and then we share their tales of true love in our special Valentine’s print edition. Their stories are often sweet, sometimes funny, and almost always surprising. Be part of one of our most wildly popular features by telling us, […]

Magic of Margo: Retirement party to honor director’s 25 years of service with Helping Hands

ROCKWALL, TX (Dec. 17, 2014) Friends of Rockwall County Helping Hands liken the legacy of Margo Nielsen to a quote from Winston Churchill: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Clearly, the spirit of Helping Hands today is a reflection of Nielsen’s giving of herself. Past […]

Lost in the Holiday Shuffle ~ Grandma’s Christmas Birthday

ROCKWALL/HEATH, TX (Dec. 21, 2014) The Christmas tree of my childhood held 1960’s ornaments—silver orbs with spikes and color-filled depressions. We threw on strips of foil “icicles” and pronounced it good. Maybe that’s why our late-December visits to the grandparents’ house felt like arriving at Disneyland. Grandma loved to decorate at Christmastime. She adorned the […]

Blue lights on my Christmas tree

ROCKWALL, TX (Dec. 13, 2014) As I sit and write this under a full moon, we have at least 107 job openings in law enforcement across the country — each and every one of those vacancies is the result of a brother or sister in blue giving the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. […]

Christmas Open House at Liberty Heights includes free pie

ROCKWALL, TX (Dec. 19, 2014) Liberty Heights Gracious Retirement Living will host a community-wide Christmas Open House from 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22. Guests will enjoy guided tours and a free, fresh baked pie! RSVP by noon Monday by calling 972-722-5129. Liberty Heights is located at 963 West Yellow Jacket Lane in Rockwall, […]

Rockwall County contracts for countywide Open Space Master Plan

ROCKWALL COUNTY, TX (Dec. 19, 2014) Work will begin in January 2015 to prepare an Open Space Master Plan for Rockwall County. The Commissioners Court approved a contract with the consulting team of VERDUNITY and WRT for a master plan that will consolidate the plans from each of the cities into a countywide master plan. […]