KEY LARGO, Fla. — A Rockwall man has died while diving off of Key Largo in Florida. 57-year-old Thomas Pickett was diving in water about 20 feet deep at Elbow Reef on Wednesday.
Witnesses say Pickett surfaced and began to have trouble.
Authorities say he was pulled into a boat and was unconscious. He stopped breathing, and crew on board the boat began CPR.
Paramedics [...]
By Dawn Redig. NeighborsGo.com. When Rockwall resident Mike Barringer founded The Shoe Bank in 1989, his nonprofit’s mission was a simple one – to provide shoes for a few hundred homeless men in downtown Dallas.
Twenty years later, Barringer still works from his home office, single-handedly managing The Shoe Bank’s daily operations. But his efforts [...]
By Heath resident Jerry Hogan, U.S. Army Lt. Col. (retired). Charlotte Eaton, granddaughter of Elaine Eubanks of Rockwall, Texas, grew up in Kilgore, Texas and graduated from Sabine High School in June of 1999. As discussed a lot in past articles about other young men and women from our area, Charlotte thought about enlisting in [...]
By J.J. Smith. Due to inclement weather, all Rockwall, Royse City and Garland ISD schools are closed today and all after-school activities have been either cancelled or postponed.
Many government offices have also either been closed or will open late.
All Rockwall County offices will be closed all day. City of Rockwall offices will not open until [...]
By J.J. Smith. It’s snowing! All Rockwall County schools are open today despite a Winter Storm Warning having been issued for the Dallas-Ft. Worth area until Midnight by the National Weather Service.
The snow started falling early this morning and by daybreak up to two inches covered much of the Rockwall County area.
Four to six more [...]
By J.J. Smith. The two teens who were missing for four days from Rockwall have returned home safely.
Rebekah “Bekah” Alexander, 15, a freshman at Rockwall High School, and Cameron Westmoreland, 16, a sophomore at Rockwall’s Heritage Christian Academy, ran away together shortly after midnight on Feb. 5 and had not been seen or heard from [...]
By PegasusNews.com. Two teens from Rockwall and Heath have been missing from the Dallas-Fort Worth area for nearly four days. Rebekah “Bekah” Alexander, 15, and Cameron Westmoreland, 16, are believed to have run away together shortly after midnight on Friday, February 5 and have been gone since.
The two have been dating for more than a [...]
The Dallas Morning News. A standing-room crowd of about 200 turned out for the Rockwall City Council’s special forum on The Shores Country Club at The Center last night and loudly applauded the 22 speakers who cited a list of problems at the golf course.
One speaker said it could be worse and drew laughter from [...]
“The Military View” column by Heath resident Jerry Hogan, US Army Lt. Co. (retired). Several years ago I wrote an article about a young lady from Rockwall named Jennifer Baker. She is the daughter of Wesley and Michelle Baker, a 2004 graduate of Rockwall High School, a person who went on to college after graduating [...]
WFAA-TV Channel 8. A simple plan for the city of Rockwall to maintain an old cemetery has dredged up painful memories of history and race.
Negotiations are under way that could lead to the city owning a historically black burial ground. The cemetery sits on Highway 205, which is the main road into Rockwall and a prime [...]
