‘A Dance To Remember’ holiday party benefits Rainbow Room of Rockwall County Each December for the past 13 years, Margaret Kochan, owner of the A Dance To Remember Ballroom Dance Studio in Rockwall, invites her patrons to a complementary holiday party. Margaret provides the location, the food and the music, and in return she asks […]
The Boys & Girls Club of Northeast Texas and the Hilton Dallas/Rockwall Lakefront invite guests to ring in the New Year at the 4th Annual Masquerade Ball, January 31, 2019 starting at 6 PM. Guests are encouraged to don formal attire and a mask for a wonderful evening of of food, beverage and entertainment including: […]
UPDATE (12/25/2019 9:30AM): Doni Todd publicly thanked those who showed up on Christmas Eve to fulfill her Christmas wish for her mom: She wrote: “Thank you, Nic Collins and Living Hope Baptist Church, in Garland. Showing up this evening, and surprising mom with a few of your own to sing Christmas carols was the best […]
The community is invited as Home Care Assistance presents the 3rd annual BINGO night supporting Meals on Wheels Senior Services of Rockwall County. The event will be hosted by Divine Peace Church from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, 305 S. Fannin St., Rockwall. Cost is $20 (includes dinner and 5 games of Bingo) […]
At the December 16 Board of Trustees meeting, the Board approved the elementary and middle school attendance zone boundaries for Sherry and Paul Hamm Elementary. The elementary attendance zone for Sherry and Paul Hamm Elementary includes residents east of Hwy 205/N. Goliad, to RISD’s northern boundary, west of N. John King Blvd, including the subdivisions […]
On December 4, 2019, Texas Health Hospital Rockwall celebrated the beginning of a $91 million expansion project with a groundbreaking ceremony that included representatives from Perkins & Will Architects, Rogers-O’brien Construction, elected officials, community leaders, patrons, hospital management and caregivers. Leading the event, Alma Williams Howard, former Rockwall Mayor and current member of the Board […]
Rockwall ISD welcomes Megan Smith as the principal of Sherry and Paul Hamm Elementary School, the 15th elementary school in the district. Mrs. Smith is the current principal of Amy Parks-Heath Elementary School where she will remain as principal through the spring semester. She will meet with future Hamm Elementary School students and parents at Hays […]
Sherry and Paul Hamm Elementary School Named for Celebrated Educators On Monday, December 16, at their regularly scheduled meeting, the Rockwall ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously to name the district’s 15th elementary school after Sherry and Paul Hamm. Mr. and Mrs. Hamm served in public education for 59 years, combined, with 52 of those years […]
Trevor Karrett of Rockwall, Texas, a member of the class of 2021 majoring in electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), was a member of a student team that recently completed an intense, hands-on research project through the WPI project center in Denmark. The project was titled Developing Funding Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations. […]
(ROCKWALL, TX – Dec. 4, 2019) Third-grade students at Jones Elementary recently visited the Dallas Arboretum for a day of explorations and learning. The students attended a presentation called “Planetary Voyage” where students sat in the Arboretum’s Globe Theatre, where students viewed the five-foot-tall OmniGlobe, which is a large ball that has images projected onto it. […]