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ROCKWALL – Over 100 area residents filled the historic old Rockwall County Courthouse yesterday to protest the actions of 20-year County Commissioner Jerry Wimpee, who hired a company Jan. 28 to cut five feet off the U.S. flagpole to lower it to the same height as the Texas and Veterans flags, which fly outside the [...]
(NBC5-TV News) ROCKWALL – Old Glory and the Lone Star Flag are at the center of a heated controversy after a Rockwall County Commissioner admitted to cutting 5 feet off the American flag’s pole at the county’s new Veterans Memorial. During Tuesday morning’s commissioner’s court meeting, County Commissioner Jerry Wimpee got a verbal slashing from veterans [...]
(NBC5-TV News) ROCKWALL – The new Rockwall County Courthouse says “In God We Trust” but that is a different story inside. MORE
ROCKWALL – In Rockwall County, there’s a fight to preserve a piece of history. The county has decided to sell the old Rockwall County Annex Building, leaving the fate of the 94-year-old building in the hands of the buyer. Rockwall Historian Sherri Fowler said the annex is valuable piece of property and that it’s been [...]
(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 [...]
ROCKWALL – Rockwall County has experienced the most job growth in the nation over the last ten years, the editors of CNN Money magazine announced this past week. According to CNN Money, job growth between 2000-2010 increased 97.9 percent. Cities mentioned were Rockwall and Heath. Second was Loudoun County VA, “the Silicon Valley of the [...]
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 – Rockwall County Judge Jerry Hogan has announced that he will hold his next town hall meeting June 13 to discuss and answer questions about his proposal to outsource County library and custodial services in order to raise $458,000 for next year’s budget. It will begin at 7 pm on the third floor of [...]
ROCKWALL – On the heels of the Rockwall ISD school board’s decision two weeks ago to outsource transportation and custodial services to save over $1.1 million dollars for the 2011-2012 school year, Rockwall County Judge Jerry Hogan introduced the idea of outsourcing custodial and County library services to County Commissioners at their work-session May 31. [...]
ROCKWALL — Rockwall County Commissioners approved the expenditure of $499,500 for the new Veterans Memorial at the new Rockwall County Courthouse at last Tuesday’s meeting. After the maximum guaranteed cost was set at $516,479 by Manhattan Construction, the American Legion agreed to pay the remaining balance. The County had approved setting aside $500,000 for the [...]
