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By J.J. Smith. Playing a playoff double-header yesterday, the nation’s top-ranked Rockwall-Heath baseball team finally lost their first game of the season to Cleburne, 4-3, but came back in the final game of their best-of-three-game series to defeat Cleburne 6-2, advancing to the Class 4A Region II Finals. The Hawks had already beaten Cleburne Thursday [...]
By J.J. Smith. Soon after hearing about the devastating earthquake that leveled much of Haiti in January, two freshmen students who attend Rockwall’s private Christian college prep school Heritage Christian Academy decided to do something to help the millions of people stranded there. They just didn’t know what. After learning from their HCA art teacher [...]
By J.J. Smith. The nation’s top-ranked, undefeated Rockwall-Heath Hawks baseball team took advantage of two Cleburne errors last night and won their 38th straight game, 4-1, in the first of their best-of-3-game Class 4A Region II semifinal series at Cleburne. All of the Hawks’ runs came in the fourth inning. After Jovan Hernandez cracked an [...]
By J.J. Smith. A Rockwall County Justice of the Peace says he is very upset with a Rockwall City Council member after recently learning that the Council Member publicly criticized him last November on his blog for not doing his job properly, for charging him with “essentially stealing taxpayer money†and for spreading what the [...]
By J.J. Smith. A Rockwall County jury returned a verdict in less than 30 minutes last week on charges of Driving While Intoxicated and Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon against a man who had been convicted of five previous DWIs and is currently out on bond in two other DWI cases in counties other [...]
Rockwall/Heath Neighbors Go. In February 1942, Private First Class Paul Rogers mailed a letter from Luzon, in the Philippines, where he was serving as General Douglas MacArthur’s stenographer during World War II. Lois Haskins Snyder of Royse City said that when the letter arrived at her family’s home – which, at that time, was in [...]
By J.J. Smith. The Headmaster of Rockwall’s Heritage Christian Academy received a prestigious award from the nation’s premier international professional educational group, Phi Delta Kappa, at the annual banquet of the organization’s Texas A&M University-Commerce chapter May 13. Dr. Ron Taylor, who has been a PDK group member for 35 years, received the Phi Delta [...]
By Brittnee Lee. A local rock band made up of teens from Rockwall, Rowlett and Royse City are taking the DFW rock music scene by storm with their winning streak of five “Battle of the Bands†victories in a row, including at the May 15 Richardson Wildflower Arts & Music Festival. “Jaci and Those Guys†[...]
By J.J. Smith. A person was arrested and charged with prostitution by Rockwall Police two weeks ago at the Asian Healing Hands Massage business in Rockwall. According to Criminal Investigation Lt. Kirk Aldridge, he could not provide any information other than to confirm an arrest was made at the business, located at 2332 Greencrest, just [...]
By Brittnee Lee. After well-known Rockwall Regal Realtors co-owner Lance Holland (pictured above) was diagnosed last November with Stage II pancreatic cancer, his son, Justin Holland, felt the determination to raise a large amount of money for the recent Rockwall County Relay for Life event, held overnight April 30-May 1 at Cain Middle School. Over [...]
