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By J.J. Smith. U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Rockwall) issued a statement today opposing Pres. Obama’s proposed government-run healthcare system reform, at the same time revealing that he has been working for months on an alternative health care reform plan which he hopes will soon receive bipartisan support. The 15–term Congressman wrote that, to be a success, a [...]
Even though Rockwall resident Nathan Mathura is only 11 years old, having his own rock band is as normal for him as owning a pair of sneakers. Since he and his little brother Adam started The Unknown Band a year and a half ago, the group has grown in popularity and purpose. Click here to [...]
Mike Hargreaves, a homeowner near the swanky Harbor development at Lake Ray Hubbard, wants the trees back.Click here to read this Dallas Morning News story. Â
By Kim Dobbs. Johnny Solis had many career choices as a young man, but a desire to serve others led him to the City of Heath. “I was going to college and running my own landscape company when I enrolled in the police academy in 1988,†said Solis. “I kept up with my college and my [...]
By J.J. Smith. State Farm Insurance, the state’s largest insurer of homes, has filed for a rate increase of up to 14.4 percent for Dallas area homeowners, making it the third of the state’s largest insurers to recently raise rates. Farmers Insurance recently announced an average statewide increase in its rates of 10 percent to 12.6 [...]
States awash in weatherization money scramble to spend it; 10 times the usual amount allotted (AP) — Ready or not, states are getting a tenfold boost in federal money to weatherize drafty homes, an increase so huge it has raised fears of waste and fraud and set off a scramble to find workers and houses [...]
Popular Royse City teenage singer and entertainer Brittnee Lee appeared on stage with Grammy award-winning, multiple-platinum country artist Bryan White June 25 at the Big D Opry in Dallas.  Other popular Nashville and Texas recording artists also performed, including Star de Azlan, Jolie Holliday, Bryan Cline and Paul Eason. Britnee’s career continues to soar, as she struggles to [...]
By J.J. Smith. An average of 80,000 new students per year are being enrolled in schools annually across Texas but over 60 percent do not speak English, State Sen. Bob Duell (R-Greenville) told a group of about 75 men and women at the Rockwall Republican Men’s Club breakfast July 11. As a result, $2 billion dollars more are required each year in the state budget for [...]
The mother of popular Royse City teenage singer and entertainer “Brittnee Lee†Edmonds passed away May 26, after a two-year battle with cancer. Deena Edmonds, who had been on hospice care for several months, was still actively involved in Brittnee’s life until the very end. She was just 38 years old. A former fifth grade teacher at [...]
By. J.J. Smith. A former Chaplain for two years at Harris Methodist HEB Hospital in Bedford, who just received her degree in May from Brite Divinity School of TCU in Fort Worth, has been named the new pastor at Rockwall’s First Presbyterian Church. Pastor Cheryl Taylor will conduct her first service Aug. 2 at 11 am at the church, [...]
