Houston Daily Digest Saturday, October 24, 2026
Ty's Take
Drought's got folks thinking different these days. A report saying extreme conditions cover the whole county is the kind of thing that lands different when you're running cattle on pasture or managing timber through the dry months, and when a prescribed burning meeting gets called in town, you know landowners are serious about what comes next. Meanwhile, the schools are moving forward anyway—Summersville pulling in nearly seven hundred thousand dollars and Licking putting up a new scoreboard. That's the Ozarks in a nutshell: you deal with what the weather throws at you, you take the grants when they come, and you keep improving what matters to your kids. The doc staying on at the hospital doesn't hurt either.
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Family medicine and obstetrics physician extends TCMH contract
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Blood drive planned at TCMH Nov. 13
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Meeting on prescribed burning planned in Houston
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New report: ‘Extreme drought’ covers all of county
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PHOTOS: HHS football vs. Liberty
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Summersville Schools receives almost $700,000 grant
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New scoreboard comes to Licking High School baseball field
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