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Local football scores for weekend #1

Local football scores for weekend #1

ROCKWALL – Weekend #1 Rockwall area & District 10-4A football scores:   ROCKWALL COUNTY SCHOOLS: Naaman Forest 21, Rockwall 13 Rockwall-Heath 19, West Mesquite 7 Mesquite Poteet 61, Royse City 22 The Fulton School 85, Irving Faustina 59   ROCKWALL AREA SCHOOLS: North Mesquite 41, Rowlett 14 Plano 56, Garland Lakeview Centennial 0 Wylie East [...]

August 29 2011 | Posted in Latest News, Sports | Read More »

Rockwall kicks off football season Friday hosting Naaman Forest

Rockwall kicks off football season Friday hosting Naaman Forest

ROCKWALL – The Area’s ninth-ranked Rockwall Yellowjackets will open their 2011 football season tonight when they host the Naaman Forest Rangers in the second game of the second annual “Ralph Hall Honor Before Victory Classic” at 7:30 pm at Wilkerson-Sanders stadium. Rockwall-Heath won the first game of the Classic last night, defeating West Mesquite, 19-7. [...]

August 26 2011 | Posted in Latest News, Sports | Read More »

Heath opens football season by dominating West Mesquite, 19-7

Heath opens football season by dominating West Mesquite, 19-7

ROCKWALL – Taking advantage of four West Mesquite fumble recoveries which directly led to points, the Area’s 14th-ranked Rockwall Heath Hawks kicked off their 2011 football season with a dominating 19-7 win over the eighth-ranked Wranglers last night in the first game of the second annual “Ralph Hall Heritage Honor Before Victory Classic” at Wilkerson-Sanders [...]

August 26 2011 | Posted in Latest News, Sports | Read More »

Football season kicks off tonight as Heath hosts West Mesquite

Football season kicks off tonight as Heath hosts West Mesquite

HEATH – Are you ready for some football? The 2011 high school football season kicks off tonight in Rockwall County when the Area’s 14th-ranked Rockwall-Heath Hawks host the 8th-ranked West Mesquite Wranglers in the Hawks second-annual “Ralph Hall Heritage Honor Before Victory” Classic at Wilkerson-Sanders Stadium in Rockwall at 7 pm. According to Heath Head [...]

August 25 2011 | Posted in Latest News, Sports | Read More »

New Terrell Bingo hall holding grand opening this Saturday

New Terrell Bingo hall holding grand opening this Saturday

TERRELL – The grand opening of Terrell’s Best #1 Bingo will be this Saturday, featuring bingo games for cash and charity, plus appearances by impersonators “Marilyn Monroe” and “Betty Boop,” continuous music, food and drawings for a 32″ TV. The new Bingo hall is located at 14701 Hwy. 205, just north of Terrell, on the [...]

August 24 2011 | Posted in Entertainment, Featured | Read More »

Sarah Palin, lifeguarding in Texas? You betcha!

Sarah Palin, lifeguarding in Texas? You betcha!

(MSNBC-TV  News) HEATH – Meet the “other” Sarah Palin, 20, from Texas who fields 200 Facebook requests a day. If you’re wondering what Sarah Palin is up to this summer, one thing about her is certain: She just might save your life. Her only platform is a lifeguard’s chair and her main concern about running [...]

August 23 2011 | Posted in Featured, Living | Read More »

Missing five year-old kindergarten student found at Boys, Girls Club

Missing five year-old kindergarten student found at Boys, Girls Club

ROCKWALL – The five year-old Shannon Elementary kindergarten student who was missing for three and a half hours yesterday after the first day of school was found safe and sound at about 7 pm at the Boys & Girls Club, after he somehow boarded the wrong school bus. According to Rockwall ISD Communications Director Sheri [...]

August 23 2011 | Posted in Education, Latest News | Read More »

Five-year-old missing in Rockwall

Five-year-old missing in Rockwall

(WFAA-TV News) ROCKWALL — Following his first day of kindergarten, five-year-old Derrick Hood was supposed to board an after-school daycare bus outside Shannon Elementary in Rockwall Monday afternoon. He never got on that bus. The incident was reported right away by the daycare bus driver, but Derrick remained missing more than three hours later. MORE

August 22 2011 | Posted in Education, Latest News | Read More »

Football pre-season scrimmages, intro night this weekend

Football pre-season scrimmages, intro night this weekend

ROCKWALL – High school football will kick off its 2011 pre-season tonight when Rockwall- Heath hosts Rowlett at Heath High School’s practice field at 7 pm, Rockwall travels to Denison at 7:30 pm and Royse City hosts Little Elm at 7 pm in scrimmages. Tomorrow night at 6 pm, Rockwall will host a “Meet the [...]

August 19 2011 | Posted in Latest News, Sports | Read More »

Tiny Rockwall County grows jobs by 98 percent

Tiny Rockwall County grows jobs by 98 percent

(CBSTV11 News) ROCKWALL – The smallest county in the State has become a job growth giant. Between 2000 and 2010, Rockwall County showed nearly 98 percent job growth. That’s good enough to rank number one in the country when it comes to job growth, we’ll run down this list, this is according to CNN Money [...]

August 19 2011 | Posted in Latest News, Living | Read More »