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by D’Etta Brown Production Editor Slaton native and Lubbock music royalty Don Caldwell was featured in the June 17, 1965, issue of The Slatonite along with another Slatonite, Jimmy Marriott. According to the article, the two had recently returned from a trip East with a combo called Notations. They backed Lubbock vocalist Ted Tyler. At…

by D’Etta Brown Production Editor Members of the Slaton Chamber of Commerce are invited to attend the annual membership meeting at Business After Hours on Tuesday (Nov. 14) from 5-7 p.m. Slaton’s new event venue, Tin Top (100 W. Dawson), will host the gathering at its larger building, The Pearl. On the business end, there…

The Scurry County Historical Commission, based out of Snyder, sent out a press release Wednesday (Nov. 1) lamenting the impending demolition of Snyder’s Santa Fe Railroad Depot. According to the historical commission, numerous articles, countless emails, media stories, and meetings to discuss the fate of the Santa Fe Depot have taken place since 2008. The…

by D’Etta Brown Production Editor With the spookiest night of the year right around the corner and autumn in full swing, several fall- and Halloween-themed events are happening around town in the coming days. Caprock Santa Fe Credit Union is offering trick-or-treating at its location at 405 Railroad Ave. today (Oct. 26) from 4-5:30 p.m.…

At their regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday (Oct. 19), the Lubbock-Cooper ISD Board of Trustees named Candice Cross the principal of Lubbock-Cooper East Elementary, set to open in August 2018. A second generation educator, Cross spent her childhood in several West Texas communities including Wilson and Lamesa. Cross graduated with a bachelor of science in…

AUSTIN ⎯ Texas added an estimated 256,100 seasonally adjusted jobs over the past year. There were overall job decreases of 7,300 in September, due largely to effects from Hurricane Harvey. Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 4.0 percent, down from 4.2 percent in August and remained below the national rate of 4.2 percent. Annual…

The roar from the audience reached the rafters of the Slaton Junior High School gym, where master teacher Katie Negen became the first educator in the district to receive the Milken Educator Award. The honor comes with an unrestricted $25,000 cash prize. Negen is among up to 45 educators who will receive the prestigious recognition during…

LUBBOCK – On Tuesday (Oct. 17) the Community Foundation of West Texas will announce grants of over $20,000 to four agencies, including the Slaton Railroad Heritage Association for the restoration of the Slaton Harvey House’s 1900’s era caboose. These grants are gifts made possible through the E. Jay Matsler Trust. The E. Jay Matsler Trust was…

Walk for Tots: Slatonite sets sight on good cause     Slatonite Samantha Shankles and adopted father Jimmy McDonald will be walking with a purpose come Sept. 25. With the motto “every step is another kid’s smile,” the pair will be walking 120 miles from Grafton, Va., to Fredericksburg, Va., to raise money for local…