Salado Village Voice Q & A |
- Question #1 How can I subscribe to the print edition?
- Question #2 How can I submit an article, letter or idea to the newspaper?
- Question #3 How can I submit a classified ad to the newspaper?
- Question #4 I want to advertise. What should I do?
- Question #5 Who is the Salado Village Voice?
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Question #1: How can I subscribe to the print edition of the Salado Village Voice? What will I get with my subscription? Subscribing to the Salado Village Voice is easy and fast. Mail payment of $26 to Salado Village Voice, PO Box 587, Salado, TX 76571 with your name, mailing address, phone and e-mail address. Print subscribers also get the benefit of the full on-line version of the Salado Village Voice, as well as periodic notifications of breaking news. You can also subscribe on-line by sending your name and address to mfleischer@saladovillagevoice.com. Please put "newspaper subscription" in the memo line of the e-mail. We will send you a bill after we begin your subscription.
Question #2 How can I submit an article, letter or idea to the Salado Village Voice?
We love news of our community. You can find submission forms for engagements and weddings, birth announcements, obituaries,club news, and even sports. The forms are in PDF format so you can download them, complete them and mail to Salado Village Voice, PO Box 587, Salado, TX 76571 or FAX 354-957-9479. Please include a contact phone number for verification. You can e-mail articles and information to news@saladovillagevoice.com
If you know of someone or something that would make an interesting article or photograph, please let editor Tim Fleischer know by writing tfleischer@saladovillagevoice.com.
Letters to the editor can also be submitted via e-mail. Letters should be concise and address issues, not personalities. The editor reserves the right to edit and/or publish any letters written to him. Salado Village Voice does not publish unsigned letters to the editor. Please include a phone number and name with your letter for verification purposes. The phone number will NOT be published. Letters can be e-mailed to tfleischer@saladovillagevoice.com. If you e-mail a letter, please include a daytime phone number for verification purposes (the phone number will NOT be printed). Bulk or form letters will not be considered.
Question #3: How can I submit a classified advertisement?
Classifieds are a great way to sell, lease or find employees. The first 15 words are $5, with each word following 20 cents each.
You can e-mail your classified ad to advertising@saladovillagevoice.com. Be sure to include a contact name, hone number and billing address. The deadline for classifieds is noon on Mondays for the Thursday edition. All classifieds are printed in the Marketplace section of the newspaper, as well as the web edition of the Marketplace, doubling your value. Questions can be directed to Marilyn, 254-947-5321.
Question #4: I want to advertise. What do I do?
Salado Village Voice offers quality, effective display advertising in its print edition on two bases: periodic, or one-time, advertising starts at $5 per column inch; contract, or long-term, advertising starts at $2.50 per column inch. The contract advertising offers flexibility and visibility to businesses who want consistency and recognition. Follow the link below to see some display advertising sizes and their prices. Salado Village Voice staff will be happy to work with you to build your ad. We also have working relationships with area advertising agencies and area publications to help you maintain a consistent image. If you design your own advertisement, we accept PDF and JPEG files for advertising.
Call, fax or email Marilyn for further details: 254-947-5321, FAX 254-947-9479, email advertising@saladovillagevoice.com.
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Question #5: Who is the Salado Village Voice?
Salado Village Voice has a staff of five, including publishers Tim and Marilyn Fleischer. Other staffers are Stephanie Hood, advertising composition, Royce Wiggin, administrative assistant, and Ken Clapp, political columnist..
In addition to individual awards by staff members, Salado Village Voice has been honored by the community and state. The newspaper was the first-ever Business of the Year, awarded in January 2003 by the Salado Chamber of Commerce. The news- paper has also been named multiple times to the Texas Association of School Board’s Honor Roll for news coverage of the Salado school district.
Tim Fleischer
Tim Fleischer has been a newspaperman since he was 16, working for both weeklies and daily newspapers. “I got the Devil’s Ink at an early age and haven’t been able to get rid of it,” he said of his 20 years in the newspaper industry.
For almost 16 years of it, he has been the editor of the Salado Village Voice.
But his love for Salado has been for more than two decades. “I came to Salado for the Art Fair and Gathering of the Clans with my parents when I was rgowing up in Coryell County,” he said. “I drove through it every day on my way to run a small newspaper in Florence.”
Tim and Marilyn Fleischer have published the newspaper since 1988. During that time, the newspaper has grown from an eight-page tabloid to a 36- to 40-page paper of two sections.
“We have grown with the community and are a reflection of it,” he said.
In those years, the newspaper has won several awards from the Texas Community Newspaper Association, where Salado Village Voice competed against newspapers from San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Austin and around the state.
Tim has won several TCNA awards: advertising design (third in state for large ad format and third in state for advertising series); editorial work (first in state for editorial writing, third in state for editorial writing, third in state for column writing) and second in state for community service (for articles during the incorporation election).
He has also served the community in a variety of capacities, including four years on the board of directors of the Salado Chamber of Commerce and six years on the board of directors of the Institute for Humanities at Salado. He was president of the Salado Chamber of Commerce and treasurer for two years of the Institute for Humanities.
He and wife Marilyn share responsibilities at the newspaper. “She runs the office and I make editorial decisions,” he said.
You can write Tim Fleischer at
tfleischer@saladovillagevoice.com
Marilyn Fleischer
Marilyn got the Devil’s Ink in her blood after meeting Tim 17 years ago.
She worked for TU Electric prior to the purchase of the Salado Village Voice in March 1988.
She also owned and operated a plant business in the Killeen/Copperas Cove area for several years while raising her three children.
During their years in Salado, Marilyn has served the community in many ways. “I think I have been most satisfied with my work with the Salado Family Relief Fund,” she said. In addition to her work to establish the Family Relief Fund, Marilyn has also been Art Fair chairperson for two years, and worked with the Ladies Auxiliary to publicize its annual event, Christmas in October.
She has also won awards from the TCNA. She has twice been honored. She won second place for Best Feature Photo and second place for Community Service for her work with the Family Relief Fund.
The Fleischers’ children -- Royce Wiggin, a recent graduate of Salado High School, and Jenny Wiggin, a junior at Salado High School -- have grown up in the eye of the community. “We have dragged them to so many events with us as they were growing up,” Marilyn said, “and now they are participating in many of the events that we are covering for the newspaper.”
You can reach Marilyn Fleischer at
mfleischer@saladovillagevoice.com
Stephanie Hood
A lifelong resident and 1987 graduate of Salado High School, Stephanie is a hometown girl at heart.
“I grew up here, Salado is more to me than just a tourist destination. Salado is its history and its people. I really enjoy working in my hometown where the news is about the people who I know and love.”
Stephanie joined the Salado Village Voice in 2006 as the composition person. She has spent her adult life creating images that express ideas. “My background is in Broadcasting, taking a complex idea and fine tuning it into a few simple images and words that make sense to everyone.” Stephanie finds using those skills to help out in her community to be the most rewarding.
For 15 years she worked with Children’s Miracle Network, creating ‘Miracle Stories’ about patients at Scott & White. CMN is not the only place Stephanie serves her community. Stephanie, her husband Robin and her children finds plenty of places to volunteer.
Stephanie first appeared at Tablerock at the age of 16. She now serves on the Tablerock Board of Directors. The kids are often found helping out both on and off stage.
The family also enjoys Scouting. Stephanie serves as the Cubmaster for Pack 115 in Salado as well as serving on the District Scout Committee for Longhorn Council BSA and as an adult Girl Scout Leader for Senior Juilette Scouts in Salado.
Stephanie can be reached via e-mail at
Royce Wiggin
Royce Wiggin is one of those rare species: a native of Salado, born here in 1989.
He attended school in Salado since first grade, graduating in 2007.
He was a trumpet player in the Salado Eagle Marching Band and a tennis player.
He began work at the newspaper two years agao while still in high school. His responsibilities have grown to include placing and rotating ads on pages, directing phone calls in the office, proof reading, typesetting and a myriad of other duties.
He is the son of Tim and Marilyn Fleischer, owners of the newspaper, and is glad to finally get paid for all the hours he spends at the newspaper office.
Royce can be reached via e-mail at rwiggin@saladovillagevoice.com.
Kenyon Ford Clapp
Ken Clapp began his career in the newspaper business in 1938, at the age of ten, when he was hired to home-deliver the Cleveland News, one of that city’s two afternoon papers.
He studied Journalism in high school and after three years’ service with the Air Force followed later by a year’s recall to active duty during the Korean conflict, Ken returned to Southwestern University in Georgetown with his wife Melba and their children.
Graduating with honors, Ken began teaching government, history and journalism at Uvalde High School. He later received his Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Texas in Austin and was promoted to assistant high school principal.
After 10 years as teacher-administrator, Ken accepted the position of managing editor of the Uvalde Leader-News. Two years later he moved to Killeen as that school district’s Director of Personnel, Research and Public Relations.
In 1972, Ken took a leave of absence to work with Uvaldean Dolph Briscoe in the rancher-banker’s successful run for Governor. Governor Briscoe convinced Clapp to remain in state government thus ending his 18-year career as teacher and administrator. Clapp became the Governor’s executive assistant and chief of staff in 1974.
Before leaving office, Governor Briscoe appointed Clapp to the Texas Employment Commission in late 1978 to represent Texas employers. Commissioner Clapp was approved unanimously by the Texas Senate in January 1979 and served a full six year term before retiring in December 1984.
Returning to their Bell County home, Ken and his wife Melba, founded the Salado Post-Dispatch, located in the historic Vickrey-Berry house. The recession of ‘85-’86 took its toll including the Post-Dispatch, however never straying far from journalism, Ken continued writing a political column for a number of Texas newspapers and in 1988 created his “Off The Record” column for the Salado Village Voice under the new publisher-editors Tim and Marilyn Fleischer.
He has made his column’s “-30-” deadline 815 times during his years with the Salado weekly, which means he is nearing the million word mark as an observer of state and national politics.
Ken is Chairman of the Salado Civic Center Foundation and is one of the original members of the group that renovated the old school building in 1992-3.
You can reach Ken Clapp at