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ROWLETT – Title company attorney Carl Pankratz unofficially beat incumbent business owner Patrick Jackson by eight votes in their run-off election yesterday for Rowlett City Council seat Place 3. Pankratz (above left) received 365 votes (50.55%) to Jackson’s 357 (49.45%) of the 722 total votes cast. He also received more of the early vote totals, [...]
ROCKWALL – After a standing room-only crowd of over 300 people packed County Judge Jerry Hogan’s Town Hall meeting last night at the Historic County Courthouse on the Square, and the majority made it clear they do not want the County library outsourced, the County’s chief administrator agreed to remove his outsourcing proposal from the [...]
ROCKWALL – After receiving hundreds of emails and calls during the past week, at least three of the five members of the Rockwall County Commissioners Court plan to vote against outsourcing County library services after it is proposed by County Judge Jerry Hogan at tomorrow’s monthly Commissioners meeting, beginning at 9 am, at the Historic [...]
By J.J. Smith. ROCKWALL – Weatherford auto dealer, former Texas Secretary of State and now U.S. Senate candidate Roger Williams told the Rockwall County Republican Men’s Club today that Pres. Obama is a socialist and “the Obama economy” is “killing our country” right now. “This man is driving a stake right through the heart of [...]
ROCKWALL – The Friends of the Rockwall County Library released a statement this morning urging the community to “Say No To Outsourcing Rockwall County Library Services.” In the statement they wrote that, according to the American Library Association and other sources, only 11 out of 9,221 public libraries nationwide and only 4 out of 552 [...]
ROCKWALL – Rockwall County Judge Jerry Hogan explains from his office June 9 why outsourcing County library and building custodial services appears to be the best solution for dealing with projected $1-3 million budget deficits over the next five years. He said since growth and revenue in Rockwall County are now flat and no longer [...]
By Keith Thompson. ROCKWALL – The Heath Hawk baseball team drew the final curtain on an illustrious 2011 season by honoring team players and coaches at their baseball banquet held last night at Culpepper’s Steak House in Rockwall. Players, parents, and Hawk baseball supporters were in attendance to celebrate both the team’s and individual player’s [...]
ROCKWALL – A benefit picnic dinner will be held June 10 for 10-year-old Hannah Rathje, a Celia Hays Elementary School student who was just diagnosed with a rare form of muscular cancer called Synovia Sarcoma. She is pictured above with her 4th grade teachers Schauna Callaway, Debbie Barineau and Jane Braddock. The dinner will be [...]
(Cartoon by local resident Colby Purcell) ROCKWALL – Many Rockwall County residents are clearly not pleased with the appearance of the new County Courthouse, currently nearing completion next to the County library. Once the incorrect rumor began to fly last weekend about Commissioners possibly closing down the County library or cutting services to raise funds [...]
ROCKWALL – Newly-elected City of Rockwall Mayor David Sweet (left) and Council members David White (center), Bennie Daniels and Michelle Smith were sworn in to their new positions Monday evening by Rockwall’s 382nd District Judge Brett Hall at the twice-monthly regular City Council meeting. All three were elected May 14. Sweet had already served two-terms [...]
