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Ty's Take The trial starting today at Canyon Creek Memory Care cuts to something that haunts every family in eastern Montana—the question of who's watching over our elderly when we can't be there ourselves. Nursing homes and care facilities are supposed to be
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Ty's Take You know what a Monday briefing means in a town this size—somebody's got to pull the week together before anybody else gets moving. That's the work that doesn't make headlines, the editor or the city clerk or whoever'
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Ty's Take When a small paper loses an editor and gains one in the same breath, you're looking at the kind of transition that either steadies a ship or rocks it hard—and in a town this size, everybody knows which way the current's
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Ty's Take Most days the news that lands on the desk gets sorted pretty quick—what matters here, what doesn't. But this morning you've got Chicago violence running against a water main break in Mountain View, college sports legislation against a motorcycle wreck near
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Ty's Take New watering hole down at the lake means something, even if it sounds like a small thing. Truth or Consequences has always lived or died by whether people want to spend time here—whether they're coming for the hot springs, the fishing, the wide
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Ty's Take Three heat advisories stacked on top of each other, the Bear Fire still chewing through containment lines, and suppression crews racing the calendar before monsoon season either saves us or makes things worse—that's Silver City's week ahead in a nutshell. When
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Ty's Take Summer's here and the calendar's filling fast—solstice picnics, live music downtown, kids' clubs spinning up for the season. It's the kind of week that reminds you why people move to Pagosa in the first place, or why the
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Ty's Take Summer around the lake means kids home from school, renters flooding in, and everybody scrambling to keep up—which is exactly when things fall apart if you're not paying attention. The folks at Bacon and other outfits reminding homeowners to get their A/C
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Ty's Take The valley's got a lot of good news mixed in with the hard kind this week—Father's Day dinners coming up, which means families are finding reasons to gather around a table when things feel fractured enough already. But those criminal charges
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Ty's Take You've got a city trying to figure out what it wants to be—a regional sports destination with money and infrastructure to match, or a place where teachers are leaving because the work's gotten dangerous and the pay won't follow
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Ty's Take There's something about a small town that makes you notice when the same man shows up twice on the same roster—once as dad, once as coach. Out here where everybody knows who your people are, that overlap isn't accidental. It'
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Ty's Take City council work doesn't grab headlines the way it should—updating animal control codes and property ordinances sounds dry until you're the one trying to figure out what you can and can't do with your own land, or dealing with