Rockwall has a new animal shelter and adoption center to serve city residents and their neighbors in Heath. The grand opening for the $1.6 million facility at 1825 Airport Road is scheduled for 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, with the ribbon-cutting at 3 p.m.

It's been almost a year since the Star-Banner introduced 12 emerging kindergartners to Marion County as the Class of 2020. What a difference a year makes.

"Night, night; sleep tight; don't let the bed bugs bite." When I was a wee nipper that was the ditty my dad tucked me into bed with every night. I continued the same tradition when tucking my kids in. Now I'm dog sitting my daughter's lab while she a

Hunting the Net www.foodplots.com This is a Web site devoted to the spring and summer planting of food plots for wildlife, white-tailed deer in particular. Detailed information focuses on high priority foods such as corn, sorghum/milo, winter

Not too many years back, I received a phone call from an old pal, Millard Tope. “Jim!” he exclaimed, “You’ve got to come over and see this lizard … it’s got the bluest tail I’ve ever seen!” Millard lives only a hop, skip, and a jump from m