Mayor Skip Blancett could not disguise his frustration of the last year in dealing with a storm of issues that have come before the Village of Salado Board of Aldermen, ranging from the white-tail deer population to the sewer time line to the progress of Sanctuary and the Interstate to the Salado salamander.

He took unscripted questions from the audience for 90 minutes during an open town hall meeting Jan. 24 at the Salado Civic Center. [Read more…] about Mayor tackles tough questions at Town Hall

Edgar Cruz, an extraordinary fingerstyle guitarist will perform 1:30 p.m. Jan. 21 at Museum

These fingerstyle guitarists leave the pick at home.

They prefer to play by plucking the strings with the off hand, rather than with a pick and are called fingerstyle guitarists.

They cover all genres of music and many will be coming to Salado this weekend for the Texas Fingerstyle Guitar Association (TFGA) quarterly gathering.

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Salado Chamber of Commerce/Tourism Bureau will host its 50th Annual Awards Banquet at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 26 at Tenroc Ranch in Salado.

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Emily McBreen raising money for Leukemia & Luymphoma Society (LLS)

Fundraising Events planned around Salado in Jan. and Feb.

Salado freshman Emily McBreen has been nominated by the South Central Austin Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a candidate in their Students of the Year fundraising challenge.

“I could not be more excited to make a difference in the lives of patients across the country!” she said.

[Read more…] about Local student could be named LLS Student of Year

Lifelong collector Clayton Capps finds prize Herbie to add to his Bug Acres

He’s not much to look at it, but then again at 50 years old who among us is?

He’s got dents — a huge one in the front — and bumps and the paint is missing in quite a few spots.

But for collector Clayton Capps, this latest acquisition is a beauty.

Capps purchased Herbie #10 from the original Disney movie “The Love Bug” on Thanksgiving day. He had it shipped from Hershey, PA to its new home on Capps’ Bug  Acres on FM 2484.

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The Salado Village Voice newspaper has seen more than three decades of service to the Village of Salado.

During that time, the newspaper has always been a family affair, since its founding by Dayton Kelly in 1979. After Dayton’s death, his sons Dennis and Bill operated the newspaper until the Fleischer family purchased the newspaper in 1988.

Salado Village Voice is locally owned and operated. “We are vested in Salado and invested in Salado,” says publisher and editor-in-chief Tim Fleischer.  [Read more…] about Meet your Salado Village Voice Staff

The Village of Salado has released 20 pages of documents concerning former Village administrator Kim Foutz, stemming from a Salado Village Voice Open Records request of Oct. 18.

[Read more…] about Village releases documents from investigation of Kim Foutz

If aldermen adopt the amended Weapons Ordinance at their 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8 meeting, the discharge of arrows and/or bolts will be prohibited within the limits of the Village of Salado.

[Read more…] about Weapons ordinance may prohibit arrows, bolts inside Village