News
Elementary Wednesday— Kindergarten TPRI Review; first and second-grade guided reading training for new staff; second-grade teachers host Sunshine Luncheon.
In the first week of September, Rockdale Police officers responded to a “terroristic threat” at a local business in Rockdale.
By Christine Granados
Sports
In an explosive, highly-energized first half, Cam’Ron Valdez and Kesean Raven accumulated more than 300 yards worth of touchdowns during the Tigers 45-13 win in Lexington on Friday.
By Wynton Thomason
In their first District 19-3A contest, the Lady Tigers came up short to neighbor Lexington in a 21-25, 22-25, 22-25 match at the RHS gymnasium on Friday.
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RISD REPORT
Rockdale Junior High has a new program on its campus and, this week Junior-High Principal Kelly Blair would like to share information regarding this great new program.
By Allen Sanders
Lifestyle
Rockdale Fall Music Festival is ramping up, lining up the live music acts, promoting the car show, acquiring crafts and food vendors.
And they did, Friday through Sunday as dozens of local and area locations hosted garage sales in Rockdale’s annual Labor Day Weekend extravaganza.
By Reporter Photos By Mike Brown
Thursday was the first day of school in he 2019-2020 term in the Rockdale ISD and for the first time in several years the district recorded a gain in first-day attendance.
Obituaries
Donald Philip Mulford, 75, of Temple died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, at the V.A. Hospital in Temple.
Today we gather to give Thanks to God for His Gift of Life and Faith to Lucille Louise Wiede.
By Lucille Weide
Diana Marie (Faust) Ayers, 48, of The Woodlands died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in Houston with her family at her side.
Photo Galleries
Five inches of rain overnight Thursday triggered flooding in Rockdale's "low places" including Meadow Drive. Numerous streets were closed.
Rockdale Volunteer Fire Department on the scene of a blaze at Logs to Lumber, a woodworking shop just after 3 p.m. Thursday. The shop is located on US 79 just east of the US 77 underpass.
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