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WHEREAS, The City of Hamilton, on the 5th day of May 2024, has suffered widespread and severe damage, and loss of property, and there continues the imminent threat of same resulting from heavy, continuous rains and thunderstorms causing flooding and road failures; and WHEREAS, on May 2, 2024, the Governor of the State of Texas amended the severe weather disaster proclamation certifying that heavy rainfall, flash flooding, river flooding, large hail, and hazardous wind gusts caused widespread and severe property damage, injury, or loss of life in Hamilton county in Texas; and WHEREAS, the City of Hamilton, Texas, is taking extraordinary measures to prevent the suffering of people and to protect or rehabilitate property and to initiate relief for our community; and WHEREAS, said state of disaster requires that certain emergency protective measures be taken pursuant to the Texas Disaster Act of 1975 relating to Emergency Management and Public Health, pursuant to Chapter 418 of the Texas Government Code.

Former Hamilton resident Daniel Ford’s organization The Father’s Image International Ministries has launched out to drill its first water well in Kenya.

I would like to say thank you to all the people in Hamilton for the last three years. It has been a pleasure to serve you as Mayor.

On May 15, 1970 Misty Fincher finally got her first good night’s sleep since a tornado tore through Lubbock four days earlier Moda Fincher, the little girl who grew up to be the first female radio announcer in the Lone Star State and, some say, the whole coun - try, spent her early years in a tiny settlement called Bronte. The original inhabitants wanted to call their new home in the wide-open spaces of West Texas "Bronco," but the postal authorities said that name was taken. So the town founder, who doubled as the doctor, came up with "Bron - te" in honor of his favorite novelist – Emily Bronte. His neighbors, however, had the last word choosing to pro- nounce it "brahnt."

You may soon receive an appraisal notice from the Hamilton Central Appraisal District. The appraisal district will mail about 10,000 appraisal notices on May 17th. Your city, county, school district and other local taxing units will use the appraisal district’s value to set your 2024 property taxes.