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Saint Joseph chapel, Salado Library, Sculpture Garden part of annual garden tour

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Salado Garden Tour features public, private gardens

by Margaret B. Williamson

Keep Salado Beautiful will sponsor tours of Salado’s gardens Oct. 8 with proceeds funding improvements in Salado Sculpture Garden.

Featured are six public gardens; Salado Public Library Garden, St. Joseph’s Episcopal Chapel and Garden, Green Bridge Garden, College Hill Park, Salado United Methodist Church Historic Chapel and Garden and Salado Sculpture Garden.
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Public and private gardens part of Garden Tour on October 8

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College Hill, Methodist chapel, Green Bridge gardens on view

by Margaret B. Williamson

As we come to the end of summer, let’s think forward to October and touring Salado’s outstanding public and private gardens.

Keep Salado Beautiful, sponsor of this year’s tour, will feature six public gardens including the Salado Public Library Garden, St. Joseph’s Episcopal Chapel and Garden, Green Bridge Garden, College Hill Park, Salado United Methodist Church Historic Chapel and Garden and of course, the Sculpture Garden.

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Customers complain to SWSC about chloramine side effects

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More than two dozen Salado Water Supply customers from the western portion of the SWSC service area went before the board of directors Aug. 25 to express their concerns with the chloramine-treated water that they have been receiving since mid-July.

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Residents concerned about use of chloramine to treat water

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Salado Water Supply Corporation will conduct its next board meeting at the Salado Civic Center at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 25, where they will address the concerns of several residents in the northwest service area who have complained about rashes and other reactions to the water since the provider switched over to chloramine to disinfect the water in July.

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Disannexed properties will be released from ETJ protection

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Local property owners who seek disannexation as a solution to property taxes were given notice by the Salado Board of Aldermen that the Village reaction to disannexation would be to release those properties from the extra-territorial jurisdiction (ETJ) of the Village.

Aldermen voted unanimously at a special called meeting Aug. 22 “authorizing the release or transfer of any disannexed areas from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Village and recognizing the statutory requirement that property owners disannexed or released from the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Village will still be responsible for the indebtedness of the Village incurred while property was within the territorial limits of the Village.”  [Read more…] about Disannexed properties will be released from ETJ protection

SEXIT: Petition for annexation may have problems

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Some in the Village have already put a term to it. They call it the “Sexit,” short for Salado Exit, similar to Britain’s Brexit. But for others, it is no laughing matter. Last night, John Newman presented a petition to City Secretary Mary Ann Ray calling for the disannexation of a large portion of the residential sections of Salado, most of which were part of the original incorporation election in 2000.

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