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A TREASURE AND A NEW TREASURER- Longtime Hamilton County Treasurer Shawna Dyer has resigned and was treated with a reception Friday in the Hamilton County Courthouse courtroom. She is pictured with former County Clerk Debbie Rudolph and Tax Assessor Collector Terri Short. At right, Tonya Cox, left, was appointed County Treasurer by the Hamilton County Commissioners Court and sworn into office Monday by District Clerk Sandy Layhew.

Always willing to do fellow Texans a favor, Phil Coe agreed on Oct. 4, 1871 to give four dozen cowboys the grand tour of Abilene when they arrived the next day in the Kansas cowtown.

FCCLA officers Mattie Ondrusek and Jenna Hinton with emcee Grant Lengefeld presented this year’s homecoming door decorating contest awards at last Friday’s pep rally.

RESPECT- Hamilton Volunteer Fire Department was one of several departments honoring fallen firefighter Carson Singleton from Murray to Hamilton Saturday. At each county, firemen met the processional and escorted them to the next county line.

That morning was beautiful morning in Chicago. I was based at and flying out of Chicago’s “close in and convenient” Midway Airport.

Hamilton High School senior Taylor Long, a member of the Hamilton Soaring Club, aced his checkride last weekend and is now a FAA certified sailplane pilot.