“The Military View” column by Heath resident Jerry Hogan, US Army Lt. Co. (retired). Several years ago I wrote an article about a young lady from Rockwall named Jennifer Baker. She is the daughter of Wesley and Michelle Baker, a 2004 graduate of Rockwall High School, a person who went on to college after graduating [...]

By J.J. Smith. Last week’s recall of 2.3 million Toyotas by the world’s biggest automaker and this week’s unprecedented announcement to halt sales of eight models due to safety concerns doesn’t seem to have caused any problems at Toyota of Rockwall. In fact, business is better than normal, according to General Sales Manager Jim Taylor. [...]

By J.J. Smith. Full and part-time advertising sales representatives are needed immediately by TheRockwallNews.com to sell eye-catching, animated website ads, feature stories, plus additional advertising and public relations projects and services across Rockwall and neighboring Counties. These are commission-sales only positions – meaning there is no base salary nor insurance benefits – but good sales [...]

By J.J. Smith. In a news release issued last night after Pres. Obama’s 2010 State of the Union address, Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Rockwall) explained that while he liked hearing the President call for more jobs, help for small businesses and freezing spending because they are all steps in the right direction, they are not nearly [...]

By J.J. Smith. Rockwall City Council member Matt Scott was upset Tuesday by what he feels are accusations made by former Council member Sam Buffington that the City Council wants to take over and develop cemetery land where former black residents are buried. The comments that upset Scott were made Monday evening in a WFAA [...]

By J.J. Smith. If you’d like to participate in a survey to help City of Rockwall officials develop an iPhone application, then you’d better hurry, because the deadline is Feb. 1. To provide your opinion, just click on http://ideas.dotgov.com/, where the responses of over 500 survey participants already appear. You can also find the simple [...]

WFAA-TV Channel 8. A simple plan for the city of Rockwall to maintain an old cemetery has dredged up painful memories of history and race. Negotiations are under way that could lead to the city owning a historically black burial ground. The cemetery sits on Highway 205, which is the main road into Rockwall and a [...]

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By J.J. Smith. A fourteen-year-old ventriloquist from Heath won the $1,000 first place prize at the “Rockwall’s Got Talent” show hosted by the Rockwall Community Playhouse recently at Utley Middle School. Laryssa Bonacquisti, 14, the daughter of Doctor Gary and Lynette Bonacquasti of Heath, won the event by performing her “Auctioneer” routine,  featuring her puppets [...]

By J.J. Smith. After almost nine years as the Rockwall ISD Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Gene Burton announced at Monday night’s Board of Trustees meeting that he will retire at the end of the current 2009-2010 school year. Dr. Burton has served as superintendent since May, 2001. His career with RISD began in July, 1994, [...]