Tim Fleischer

Salado Eagles to face Giddings in bi-district baseball

May 4, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Salado varsity Eagles will face 20-4A District Champion Giddings Buffaloes in the bi-district round of the UIL baseball playoffs in a best-of-three series.

The first game will be played in Giddings at 7 p.m. May 6. Game two will be played at noon May 7 at Salado. If necessary, game three will be played 30 minutes following game two.

Giddings finished the regular season with an overall record of 17-9-0 and a district record of 8-2.

Ninth-inning shot launches Lady Eagles over Smithville

April 28, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Lexi Dudeczka’s ninth-inning shot to deep center launched the Lady Eagles to the Area round of the 4A softball playoffs with a walk-off triple against the #11 Smithville Lady Tigers April 27.

The Lady Eagles swept Smithville in the double header of the bi-district best-of-three series.

Lady Eagles face Smithville in first round of playoffs

April 27, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Salado is third place team in District 19-4A

Salado Lady Eagles face the #11 Smithville Lady Tigers in the bi-district rounds of the 4A UIL Softball playoffs. The teams face up in a best-of-three series that began with a double header April 27 at Hutto High School (in games played after presstime for this edition. The first game will be held at 5:30 p.m. with the second game 30 minutes after the end of game one. A third game, if necessary, will be held May 2 at a location to be determined.

Clifton A. Rendon

April 27, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Clifton A. Rendon

September 12, 1950

April 24, 2022

Memorial services for Clifton A. Rendon, 71, of Belton will be held at 2 p.m. April 28, 2022 at St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church in Salado.

Rendon died April 24 2022 at his home in Belton.

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Trouble at the ballot box for Salado

April 25, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Library election not on all ballots

Emergency paper ballots in Library race to be issued beginning April 26

By Tim Fleischer

Editor-in-Chief

Local election officials learned within minutes of early voting polls opening at 7 a.m. today that there was an issue with the Salado Public Library District election, which has resulted in several registered voters in the Library District not being able to cast a ballot in that race at all.

Julie Ray Goggans

April 24, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Julie Ray Goggans

June 11, 1963

April 21, 2022

Memorial services for Julie Ray Goggans of Temple, TX, formerly of Oxford, AL will be held Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at the Presbyterian Church of Salado with Reverend Carl Thompson officiating.

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Eagles split baseball games with Burnet Bulldogs

April 20, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Salado Eagles split their District 19-4A Baseball games with the Burnet Bulldogs last week.

Lady Eagles third in district after recent wins

April 20, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Salado Lady Eagles are in third place in District 19-4A after winning both of their district softball games last week.

Mayor candidates on safety, charm, business

April 20, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

The Village of Salado will elect a Mayor to a two-year term on May 7. Mayor Michael Coggin filed for a position on the ballot. Linda Reynolds has filed as a write-in candidate.

We asked the following questions:

SISD Candidates for unexpired term address challenges facing schools

April 20, 2022 by Tim Fleischer

Two candidates have filed for one two-year unexpired term on the Salado Independent School District Board of Trustees, As a manner of introducing them to our readers, we asked the following questions. Their answers are below, in order of appearance on the Ballot for May 7 election.

As a manner of introducing them to our readers, we asked the following questions. Their answers are below, in order of appearance on the Ballot for May 7 election.