ROCKWALL – Rockwall ISD elementary schools will be delaying release of elementary schools today while high winds move through Rockwall County due to the Tornado Watch and Severe Thunderstorm Warning, which was just issued by the National Weather Service for Rockwall County until 3:45 pm. According to RISD’s Facebook post, parents may pick up their [...]
MOORE OK (Left Photo: Paul Hellstern/AP photo) – If you’d like to donate to help survivors after the f4, two-mile wide tornado that devastated Moore yesterday, you can text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation, call 800-REDCROSS or visit www.redcross.org, according to a statement released by the American Red Cross. Food and supplies [...]
ROCKWALL – Want to have fun playing sand volleyball to help raise funds for a good cause? Hundreds of volleyball players are expected to participate in the 9th annual Jessica Frances Shaw Memorial Volleyball Tournament June 1 on the sand courts at the new Oasis Beach & Tennis Club at 5757 State Highway 205. Last [...]
ROCKWALL – Rest Haven Funeral Home and Memorial Park will host its 39th annual Memorial Day patriotic tribute and celebration for the area residents Monday, May 27, under the big tent at Rest Haven’s Celebration Park at 2500 State Highway 66 East. Beginning at 10 am with a patriotic tribute to veterans, the free, family-oriented [...]
GARLAND – The public is invited to attend a Barbeques Galore grill-out fundraising event to help raise funds to provide Patriot PAWS service dogs to disabled military veterans, May 17, Noon- 2pm, at the 2nd Annual Grand Hall Grill Out at 3838 W. Miller Rd. in Garland. Patriot PAWS is based in Rockwall and trains [...]
ROCKWALL (By Mary Thacker) – Linda Bernard is smiling as she pulls off her purple cap to reveal her perfectly bald head. “Every time my hair would grow back, they’d do something else to me to make it fall out again!” she exclaimed. Linda has a long history of cancer within her family. When she [...]
ROCKWALL – The man who last October stabbed 15-year-old Heath High School student Surie Baeza to death was sentenced to life in prison yesterday, in a plea agreement, by 382nd District Court Judge Brett Hall. Juan Enrique Torres, 41, pled guilty to murder and was sentenced to the maximum sentence of life in prison with [...]
ROCKWALL – A 118-apartment independent living senior retirement community called Liberty Heights is currently under construction on Yellow Jacket Ln. just west of Highway 205 and is scheduled to open in early May. Owned and built by the Hawthorn Retirement Group, which owns 55 additional senior communities in the U.S, Canada and England, Marketing Director [...]
ROCKWALL- George Parker is an Iraq War veteran who was injured in an IED explosion two days before Christmas in 2003. He still suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, cognitive disorder, as well as mobile disabilities. He is from Fort Riley, Kansas. John Oldham, from Aubrey TX, served in Afghanistan and Turkey who [...]
ROCKWALL – A Rockwall-Heath female freshman student was found dead inside a Rockwall home last night and authorities are investigating the girl’s death as a homicide. The 15-year-old girl, now identified as Surie Baeza, was found by Rockwall Police officers at about 7:15 pm in a mobile home in Lake Rockwall Estates at the 300-block [...]
