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Ty's Take Kiki's opening a second spot with a full kitchen and bakery, which says something about where Silver City's headed these days. A decade ago that kind of expansion would've been unthinkable in a town still nursing the mining economy'
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Ty's Take Soulcraft Brewing's bankruptcy filing landed like a winter storm nobody saw coming, the kind that reminds you how fast things can change in a small town economy. The brewery's been part of the downtown fabric for years now, one of the places
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Ty's Take I don't see actual headlines in what you've sent over. You've got a setup note about liking the word "Phelps County Focus" but no stories to work from. Send along what's actually running today and I&
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Ty's Take A missing person in a county this size stops everything else cold, and by now most folks around Red Lodge know who we're looking for and what the search teams are doing. The specifics matter less right now than the simple fact: someone local
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Ty's Take There's real infrastructure work happening around town right now, and it's worth noticing. U.S. 160 reconstruction, the tire collection that happened despite the weather, the prescribed burn coming to Eight Mile Mesa tomorrow, the push to expand Head Start and hire
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Ty's Take Jim Dyson spent nearly five decades around Los Alamos, which means he watched this plateau change more than most, saw the Lab grow and shrink and grow again, knew the names of people who've since moved down to Santa Fe or back east. The
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Ty's Take High school track meets aren't always the marquee event around here, but when you've got two runners who show up every Saturday and do the work the same way they do it in practice, people notice. Copley and Huffman taking first and
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Ty's Take The jobs board is filling up again, which is what you want to see heading into the back half of October, and down in Helena they're breaking ground on a new elementary school while figuring out how to get better food into the cafeteria.
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making headlines. But there's some good stuff moving anyway: the high school's recognizing solid students, the library's figured out how to let people look
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Ty's Take Starting next month, any kid in Colorado with a learner's permit is going to face some tighter rules about when they can drive and who can ride along, and frankly, it's about time somebody took a hard look at how we'
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Ty's Take The XTERRA crowd rolling through town this week, most of them lean and hungry and used to pushing their bodies past what normal folks think is reasonable, reminds you something about Alamogordo that doesn't always make the papers. We're a town built
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in the Oregon County data center fight, even if the debates happen somewhere else. These things have a way of rippling through the whole region, and West Plains sits right in the middle of whatever comes next, whether it'