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Alice Lucas, city mail carrier for the north side of Clifton, retired May 4 after 42 years of service.

Above, Hamilton Public Library’s renovation project is moving along swiftly, offering a hint of what the completed project will look like.

GONE FISHIN’- Cooper Gardner and Austin and Parker Clevinger had a great time fishing for crappie with PawPaw Monday.

AUSTIN – On Tuesday, the Texas Humane Legislation Network released information addressing many questions surrounding animal care during COVID-19.

Chrissy Hopper’s grandparents, William and Sue Bonilla of Corpus Christi, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary April 10. They celebrated at home with family through phone calls, zoom and FaceTime. The couple met at Baylor University, and later started a family law firm in Corpus Christi. They have six children, 17 grandchildren and 25 great grandchildren.

First Presbyterian Church may not have been able to have a worship service Easter Sunday, but church members still carried on the annual tradition of flowering the cross while also socially distancing.

Hamilton County Child Protective Services board members Kay Kay Zimmerman, Cynthia Smith, Rene French and Susan Tober put blue flags around the square to commemorate April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. The flags are decorated with handprints of Hamilton school children. Staff Photo

Social distancing got to Hamilton last week, and an impromptu online plan was made for doin’ the drag. Folks of all ages enjoyed waving and reminiscing about the time when doin’ the drag was the thing to do. Clockwise from top left, drivers Kendra Schmidt, Danny Booth, Nancy Yates and Mandy Blackwell make the drag with their passengers, and below, the Bauman, Jordan and Roberts families waved from the wall across from the Highway 281 turnaround.