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Ty's Take When thermometers hit records and funding gets tight, you find out who's serious about building something versus who's just collecting a paycheck. The new director at the economic development office walked in knowing both things would be true—the heat's
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Ty's Take Three people dead on our roads in recent weeks, a murder charge upgraded to first degree down in Carter County, and a death at South Central—the kind of stretch that reminds you why the sheriff's office logged 339 calls in Izard County alone
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Ty's Take Heat's coming hard into the basin, and the usual warnings about hydration and shade don't quite cut it out here—we're talking about the kind of temperatures that can turn a short walk into something serious, especially for the older
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Ty's Take Bonnie Buckley Maldonado was the kind of woman who showed up—to city council, to community events, to the fights that mattered in a small town that's always trying to figure out what it wants to be. Her passing leaves a real hole in
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Ty's Take Hickenlooper's visit to Buena Vista this week to talk wildfire recovery is the kind of thing that matters more than it sounds—not because politicians show up, but because when they do, it's usually a sign that damage assessment has moved past
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in the news that three separate Colorado victories are happening in our backyard this week—a library fundraiser that keeps our archive alive, a theater company that proves culture takes root even in towns of 1,800, and a
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Ty's Take The county's new alerts page going live this week is the kind of quiet infrastructure that doesn't make anyone's blood pump until it does—and up here on the plateau, that usually means fire season or something worse. You live
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Ty's Take When the rain comes hard and fast around here, you learn real quick who shows up. The state emergency declaration across Missouri is the official word, but what matters is that OBFD pulled an older man out of the water, that Lake Regional opened weekend express
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Ty's Take Two search-and-rescue stories in one week remind you that in country this rural and this wet, things can turn serious fast—a car slides off B, a child wanders onto Boiling Springs Road, and suddenly half the county's looking. The good news
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Ty's Take The obits page tells you something the business section won't—this region's still losing the generation that built it. Three names today, ranging from their seventies into their nineties, the kind of lives that spanned from when Billings was half this size
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande National Forest and the county are finally getting serious about what happens on their land come winter, which around here means snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and folks who've been doing both since before anybody called it "recreation planning." The