In the coming school year, middle school students will be returning to a traditional schedule as the district has elected to abandon block scheduling at that grade level as well as at the new intermediate school.

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

The RCISD board of trustees got a sneak peek at the new facilities going up at Royse City High School last Thursday evening during a special meeting which began with a tour of the stadium and auditorium construction sites.
The touring party ascended to the press box by scaffolding steps, but once inside RCISD Board President Bobby Summers reported that they were excited by what they saw.

As of last Tuesday at noon, Ray Sumrow was removed as Rockwall County Criminal District Attorney, sentenced to four years in prison, and ordered to pay restitution and court costs, as sentenced by a Dallas judge for the jury’s conviction Monday on theft.

The trial of a Royse City man, facing one count of intoxication manslaughter in connection with an alleged hit and run death of a country and western singer, has again been postponed until this summer, but probably for the final time.

Following reports of a mountain lion attacking a family pet in Rockwall last week, the Herald-Banner heard from several residents who voiced concern over that and other animals that have caused problems lately.

Sheriff incumbent Harold Eavenson got 77.10 percent of the Republican vote to beat Teresa Tuggle, who got 22.90 percent. Eavenson’s votes totaled 4,997. Tuggle’s total was 1,484.
Rockwall County’s Republican Party will be led again by Bill Broderick, who had 64.97 percent to Mary Lou Hawkins Curtis 35.03 percent. Her former positi

At 3 a.m. last Tuesday morning, Ron Gilleland went out the back door of his porch and found quite a surprise waiting in store for him.
“My dogs woke me up and when I got out into the back yard with a spotlight I keep at the back door there was a mountain lion — no, not a bobcat — holding my Boston (Terrier) in his mouth and about to leap the fence with her,” Gilleland recounted. “I yelled and started running towards the cat and it released my dog and jumped over the fence as easily as you would step up a curb.”