Looking for family activities for your kids this Halloween season?
Here are some events happening around Salado this week.
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Looking for family activities for your kids this Halloween season?
Here are some events happening around Salado this week.
[Read more…] about Safe alternatives to Halloween trick or treating
All of the mainlanes for I-35 through Salado should be open no later than Thanksgiving, according to Mayor Skip Blancett, who has met almost weekly with James Construction representatives.
[Read more…] about Construction wrapping up on interstate through Salado
Early voting has broken the records of 2008. So far, at the Salado early voting location, more than 2,677 have cast ballots in Precinct 203 through Nov. 1.
FORT HOOD, Texas – Fort Hood officials have released the name of a Soldier who was found unresponsive in his residence October 7, 2016 in Copperas Cove, Texas.
Services for Carolyn Dunson, 75 of Salado were held Wednesday, October 12 at Grace Baptist Church with Pastor Jason Goings, officiating. Burial will be private.
By Edwin Feulner
Founder, Heritage Foundation
Ever seen this bumper sticker? “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
by Michael Novotny, Salado ISD Superintendent
Earlier this month, the Salado Historical Society dedicated a new Texas State Historic Commission historical marker at the Salado Civic Center. The marker commemorates the life of Alice Joy Gray Hamblem, who donated the land for a Salado Public School in 1924.
For the following 43 years the “Red Brick Schoolhouse” located at 601 North Main Street was the only school in the district. The student enrollment gradually increased enough to need another building so in 1967 the district opened Thomas Arnold Elementary School. Students in grades seven through twelve remained in the Red Brick Schoolhouse for the next twelve years until the district opened Salado High School (which is now Salado Junior High School).
The Red Brick Schoolhouse was vacant starting in 1979 and the building gradually deteriorated to the point of almost being torn down. However, some community members and Salado High School alumni collected over $500,000 in donations to repair and renovate the building in 1992. The building was then renamed the Salado Civic Center.
The school district continues to own the Salado Civic Center and our central office is located there. Several other organizations have rented space in the building over the last 25 years, including the Salado Chamber of Commerce and Visitor’s Center, the Village of Salado, the Salado Public Library, the Salado Historical Society, and the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS). Each of these organizations eventually relocated to another location.
Last month the school district began a seven year lease with Bell County for three of the offices downstairs in the Civic Center. This space is for the five Bell County employees, including Justice of the Peace Don Engleking and Constable Rolly Correa, who were previously leasing space at Horizon Bank.
The Civic Center also has large and small meeting rooms used by many other groups, including the Salado Lions Club, Salado Community Choir, Hidden Springs Homeowners Association, ESL and GED classes, wedding receptions and family reunions.
In addition to recognizing Alice Joy Gray Hamblem for generously donating the land back in 1924,
I would also like to thank the following people that helped restore the Red Brick Schoolhouse into the Salado Civic Center:
Gary Bartlett
Kenyon Clapp
Robert H. Cottle
Suzi Epps
Jessie Foster
Egon Friedrich
Hulda Horton
Denver Mills
Lloyd Parks
Pasty Sanford
Lois Shepperd
Wilma Williams
Helen Zagona
.I have a safety concern for pedestrians crossing the Salado Main St. bridge.
Salado businesses largely depend on tourists for their income.
Special events such as the Christmas Stroll, Gathering of the Clans, etc are likewise an important part of marketing Salado as a destination.
There is a safety issue when two families with baby strollers headed in opposite directions meet on Salado’s Main St bridge. One of the families must place their stroller in the north bound lane of traffic in order to pass. (Or hold it over their head which adds other safety issues, besides being pretty silly to imagine.)
In your opinion, what is the best way to address pedestrian congestion encountered when crossing the Salado Main St. bridge during high traffic times?
Thanks in advance and
Kindest Regards.
Tim Rivers
Donald Trump will lose, at least it seems so. Perhaps we can prepare for a sigh of relief.. However, he has done inestimable damage to our national unity. Shakespeare said it so well, “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
In this instance his expected political demise will leave no residue of goodness, but will most certainly leave a lasting national atmosphere of evil divisiveness–of hate, misogyny, bigotry and xenophobia. He has worked hard to create an ‘us versus them’ chasm. He has tried to instill a distrust of everyone not in total agreement with him.
As an aside, there is a plethora of examples about his campaign that says much about his abhorrent style. Among a multitude of recent topics, he has attacked the other candidate’s spouse–but blames her for his dalliances. This campaign isn’t about Melania or Bill. They aren’t running for office. It is about Donald and Hillary. He gets away with statements that would ostracize most men from the coffee gang or the deer camp. But I digress….
The damage he has done can be undone, but it will take time and effort of men and women of
goodwill.
George Murphy
Salado