Archives for July 2018
Salado Village Voice July 12 2018
Ike Jones Mill on Salado Creek 1880-1917
Salado Mills Part 7:
Ike Jones Mill, 1880 – 1917: All in the Family
By: Charlene Carson Local Historian
Milling seems to have run in the Col. Thomas Henry Jones family. When the Colonel’s son Isaac Van Zandt Jones returned to Texas from military service, he established his home on a farm below his father’s mill, which had been in operation for about 10 years.
FWS expert talks at Barrow about Salado salamander
By Tim Fleischer Editor-in-Chief
Pete Diaz will discuss “The Salado Salamander and Local Aquifer Species” at Barrow Brewing Co., 108 Royal St., at 4 p.m., Sun. July 8 as one of the Summer Lecture Series presented each week.
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Who knows what Trump will say about immigration next?
In the 1950s, the great neo-conservative intellectual Irving Kristol acknowledged Joe McCarthy’s stark failings, but famously refused to take the side of his critics. “For there is one thing,” he wrote, “that the American people know about Senator McCarthy: He, like them, is unequivocally anti-Communist. About the spokesman for American liberalism, they feel they know no such thing.”
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S&P continues downward on fears of trade war
The Markets
Our dearly beloved S&P 500 Stock Index (“SPX“) ended the week down 1.33 percent at 2718.37 on trade war fears, although it managed a gain of 2.93 percent for the second quarter and is up 1.67 percent year-to-date.
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SISD trustees hire 6 new teachers at latest meeting
The Salado ISD School Board held a meeting on Wednesday, June 27. The following column is a summary of that meeting.
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What’s next, a tie-dye ordinance?
To the Editor:
Barrow Brewing Company, as a general policy, normally tries not to not to meddle in the affairs of the local village government. Recent events however, have demonstrated that some folks at city hall apparently have no intention of reciprocating that policy. The fact that a “Special Event Ordinance” was on the agenda for discussion mere days after our recent event is a fact that would be difficult to ignore. Despite the Village Administrator’s protestations to the contrary, it was obvious to us that it was indeed a response to Barrow’s recent festival.