A year of planning and preparation will come together at Rachel’s Rally on May 8. The event represents the Rockwall Independent School District’s commitment to the Rachel’s Challenge organization in an effort to extend the legacy of Rachel Scott.
Scott was the first student killed in the Columbine School shooting in 1999, but her kindness and compassion towards others still impacts the lives of others today through school assembly programs and student organizations.

The Rockwall City Council will be taking a hard look at improvements for the Shores golf course in the near future as all seven members spoke disappointedly at the current condition of the course. The city had taken steps to force the course’s management to improve the overall maintenance in the past due to resident’s complaints.

Rockwall ISD trustees got their first look at a preliminary 2008-09 draft budget in the April 21 regular school board meeting, and learned that for a second year, the fund balance will need to take care of a shortfall in revenue from expenses.
Expenditures for Rockwall ISD for the next fiscal year are estimated to be just under $105 million.

Pastor Joe Robbins and former Rockwall City Councilmember Sam Buffington reported to the Rockwall City Council last Monday night that they are working toward building a new community center in the Southside neighborhood directly across from Gloria Williams Park.
The concept of the community center is not new, as it was the focus of conversation at the last Juneteenth celebration which was held on the site. However, at the council meeting Robbins presented schematics of the proposed building and stated that the estimated cost of the project would be $180,000.

By the middle of this year, almost all of the city of Rockwall’s 2002 road bond projects should be completed; by the year’s end, both the bypass for State Highway 205, and the State Highway 205 reconstruction should be finished, and, it was learned at Wednesday’s chamber luncheon, that in 2012, “190” or the eastern extension of the George Bush Turnpike should meet Interstate 30.

A Royse City-area man, left in a wheelchair as the result of a November shootout with law enforcement officers, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to seven counts of attempted capital murder.

The participants in a lawsuit of HOA rights have agreed to a full injunction hearing in the Rockwall County Court at Law to be held on May 2 at 1:30 p.m.

As a result of a dispute over a walking trail in the Oaks of Buffalo Way neighborhood, Matt Scott has filed suit for an injunction against the neighborhood homeowners association (HOA).