Rockwall-Heath’s Jovan Hernandez tied a 21-year-old state high school baseball hitting streak record Friday morning at 42 games with a second-inning double in the Hawks season-opening, 6-0 win over Del Valle in the Waco ISD baseball tournament. But third baseman Hernandez will have to settle for sharing the record with Orangefield’s Jeff Granger, who set [...]

In their two 2011 season-opening baseball games yesterday, the Rockwall Yellowjackets blasted 24 runs on 28 hits in two shut-out victories against Red Oak and Arlington Bowie in the Waco ISD Invitational Tournament. In the first game, a 10-0 victory over Red Oak, Rockwall’s Thomas Anderson threw a no-hitter. The Yellowjackets had 11 hits, including [...]

“Stranger than Fiction” Legal Column by Rockwall Attorney Chris Ash I received a call recently from a single mom asking for help.  I’ll call her Ms. Johnson.  Only moments into this call, my heart sank for her.  Her father had died when she was a teenager.  Her mother had re-married a very nice man, and [...]

Two-term Rockwall City Council Member Glen Farris announced his candidacy for Mayor of the City of Rockwall in a news release yesterday. First elected to the City Council in 2007,  the current Mayor Pro Tem said he is excited at the prospect of serving the citizens of Rockwall. “I have prepared myself to be Mayor [...]

A Rockwall County jury sentenced a Louisiana man to twenty years in prison Feb. 7 for possession of cocaine with a street value of $25,000. According to Rockwall Co. Assistant District Attorney Suzanne Fichtel, lead prosecutor in the case, Roy Duval Green, 23, was found guilty on the first-degree felony charge of Possession of a [...]

Nebbie Williams Elementary School sixth grader Abigail White from Rockwall won the Rockwall County Spelling Bee, sponsored by The Dallas Morning News and E.W. Scripps Company, Feb. 8 at the RISD Administration Building. Wesley Williams from Maurine Cain Middle School in Rockwall finished second, earning the alternate spot in the competition. Wesley and Abigail soared [...]

(The Dallas Morning News) A Dallas County deputy constable was fired Monday, six weeks after being arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated by state troopers in Rockwall. Deputy Kevin Schoch did not specifically comment on the case Wednesday but alleged he has been targeted because of harassment and retaliation charges he has made [...]

By Sheri Fowler, RISD Communications Director. When Ella Turner’s dad was composing her American Heart Association “Jump Rope for Heart” donation webpage, he started with a very simple statement: “Ella wants to help kids with sick hearts.” That desire has led Ella, a six-year-old student at Rockwall’s Nebbie Williams Elementary, to become the number one [...]

Target store employees will be giving away free activity packets for children and reading books to them in the store’s Dr. Seuss-inspired reading nook Feb. 26 in celebration of reading and the National Education Association’s “Read Across America” program. As part of the “Who Reads? We Read!” festivities, families will be able to enjoy Dr. [...]

Garbage collection in the City of Rockwall will continue twice weekly after all, without an increase in rates, after the Rockwall City Council voted 6-1 not to change the current garbage collection policy at Monday night’s Council meeting. Council’s Environmental Subcommittee members Glen Farris, Mark Russo and Cliff Sevier had proposed an enhanced recycling program [...]