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Ty's Take The deadline for that state electrification rebate program got moved up to August 1st, which means if you've been thinking about swapping out that old propane heater or electric range, you're running short on time to get your application in the door.
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend at the lake always runs hot—this year literally, with triple digits in the forecast—but what's got people scrambling isn't the heat. Two separate fireworks contracts fell through just days before the holiday, leaving Osage Beach and
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still to live in a county where the people sworn to keep the peace end up being the ones you're wondering about. The charges coming down now against former law enforcement in
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration hit the wire yesterday, and if you've been out past the city limits lately you already knew it was coming—the land's been telling us for months. Fire season's here early and hot, and
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Ty's Take Fire season's already here and we haven't hit the worst heat yet—the burn ban going into effect this week is the kind of thing folks up here know to take seriously, whether you're running cattle on a land grant
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Ty's Take When a man with means decides to bet on the survival of local newspapers, it's worth asking why—and worth listening to the answer. David Hoffmann's millions flowing back into the papers that serve towns like ours isn't charity so
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show coming up this weekend is the kind of thing that reminds you why people who leave Big Timber keep coming back—pilots landing on the strip, folks polishing up their restorations out in the sun, that particular kind of Saturday
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Ty's Take Primary numbers are in across the valley, and what jumps out isn't who won—it's how many folks didn't show up to the ballot box. We talk a lot around here about having a say in how things run, about
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Ty's Take Kathy Woods stepping down from city council and the county commissioners weighing term limits for the DA on the same week—that's the valley's way of reminding us that institutional memory matters in a place this size. You can count on your
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Ty's Take Bad week for the county when a state party treasurer ends up in custody over a fatal hit-and-run, and you've got to wonder how many conversations at Holloman and out in the ranching country are starting with that same disbelief. Meanwhile the
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Ty's Take Looks like somebody around here finally decided to take housing seriously. West Plains pushing through that resolution to stimulate new projects, paired with concrete moves—a ready-mix plant headed to Willow Springs, infrastructure money flowing in for weather radar and water crossings—suggests the county&
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Ty's Take The city council's wrestling match with the budget always comes down to the same hard truth: Truth or Consequences runs on hot water and hope. Utility fees carry more weight here than the property tax base ever will, which means every summer when the