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Friday Forum with The Waco Bridge

June 5 News Roundup + Waco Rowing Center Athletes interview

By Molly-Jo Tilton,
J.B. Smith
Published June 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM CDT

This week, co-hosts Molly-Jo Tilton and JB Smith dive into the latest on the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame's long-awaited update and some school enrollment news from Midway and Lorena ISDs.

Plus, Molly-Jo Tilton is joined by Elijah Gilmore and Roman Sykora, the Waco Rowing Center athletes headed to the US Rowing Youth National Championships next week.

And our trivia question this week: This Waco minor league baseball team made history in 1930 with one of the best single-inning comebacks of all time. Gene Rye set four single-inning records and led this team to victory in an 18-run inning, which included 5 home runs. What was the name of that Texas League team he played for?
Listen to this week's Friday Forum to find out!

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Friday Forum with The Waco Bridge
Molly-Jo Tilton
Molly-Jo Tilton joined KWBU in 2024 as the station's Multimedia Reporter. She covers all things Waco and McLennan county for KWBU, from City Council to the local arts scene. Her work regularly appears on The Texas Standard and has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and the Texas Tribune. She also co-hosts the weekly news show, Friday Forum with the Waco Bridge.
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J.B. Smith
Before joining The Waco Bridge in February as editor-in-chief, J.B. Smith had 33 years of Texas journalism experience, most of it as local government reporter and managing editor at the Tribune-Herald. He has won numerous statewide awards for enterprise journalism, including a series on migrant deaths on the Mexico border. A Sulphur Springs native and Southwestern University graduate, he is grateful for the opportunity to build a nonprofit newsroom in his adopted hometown of Waco.
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