ROCKWALL – Over 180 members and guests gathered at the Allure Restaurant at Chandler’s Landing for the Rockwall Area Chamber of Commerce 2011 Awards and Member Appreciation Banquet Jan. 12. (See photo captions below) Outgoing Board Chair Cheryl Dunlop, Director of Administrative Services for the City of Rockwall, presented awards to Ebby Halliday Realtors and [...]

A huge number of major Internet websites are expected to go offline tomorrow to stage a blackout to protest the SOPA and PIPA web censorship bills now in Congress. According to a non-profit group leading the blackout, Fight For The Future, the Senate will vote next week on forever altering the free and open internet [...]

ROWLETT – The first baby born in 2012 at Lake Pointe Medical Center was Corey Bryland Blackshear, the third child of Shanitra Barton and Corey Blackshear of Garland. He was born Jan. 3, at 8:13 am, and weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. and was 20” long. Presenting a basket of goodies to the family on behalf [...]

ROCKWALL – The Rockwall County Committee On Aging delivered 37,618 “Meals On Wheels” to local senior citizens in 2011. According to Board Member Kristy Bailey, when school is in session during the week, Rockwall ISD’s Quest Academy kitchen keeps busy preparing meals for a cadre of volunteers to pick up and deliver on their various [...]

ROCKWALL – The public is invited to a chili dinner to meet the new officers of the Rockwall Co. Republican Women Jan. 9 at 6:30 pm at the Harry Myers Community Center. Officers are from left: Ann Easterwood – VP of Finance Ann Hettinger – VP of Legislation Judy Dickson – VP of Programs Vicki [...]

ROCKWALL – A dazzling display of Christmas lights can be seen in The Shores subdivision at 1520 Meadows Circle. Here’s the Google map: http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wl

ROCKWALL – For over 25 years Rockwall County Helping Hands has held a Christmas toy drive for children up to age 16 whose parents are not able to provide gifts. Last year, Helping Hands Toy Drive provided toys for 1,265 children (479 families). If you’d like to participate this year in the annual program, you’ll [...]

ROCKWALL – Want to quickly find out what’s going on across DFW tonight, this weekend or even next month? Now you can on TheRockwallNews.com, which has just added a DFW-wide “Find Events” calendar to our news website which will show you hundreds of free and paid events – including time, place & price – happening [...]

By J.J. Smith. ROCKWALL – This local food critic can’t wait to return to eat at El Cayote Rojo Cantina & Grill, Rockwall’s only Austin-style Tex-Mex restaurant, located on Hwy. 66, just before leaving Old Downtown Rockwall to the east towards Fate. There are two simple reasons why. First, on two of the four times [...]