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Ty's Take The library's looking for mentors to help kids with reading, and that's the kind of quiet work that keeps a county like ours from sliding backward—the kind nobody sees until years later when a kid who couldn't crack a
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Ty's Take Not much stirring in the news cycle this week—that's what July looks like down here when the heat settles in and folks are either in the fields or staying put in the shade. The entertainment guide is about all the wire's
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Ty's Take There's something about a radio station giving away Disney on Ice tickets that tells you exactly what kind of town still knows how to do right by its kids. Mix 94.3's running the promotion this week, and yeah, it's
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Ty's Take There's something that settles in a community when sentences get handed down for crimes against children—a kind of collective exhale mixed with the knowledge that justice, even when it comes, doesn't undo anything. The hundred-year sentence in Helena Valley doesn'
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Ty's Take The ICE raids down in Gallatin County this week hit closer to home than some folks around here want to admit—we've got neighbors and friends in the agricultural and construction trades who live with that kind of uncertainty every single day, and when
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Ty's Take The valley's been wrestling with hard truths this week—a murder case closed with a guilty plea, the kind of outcome that settles nothing for the families left behind, and meanwhile our water engineers are still down in courtrooms trying to figure out how
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Ty's Take You look at a day like this in Howell County and you're seeing the bones of what keeps a place like West Plains alive—not just the hospital upgrades and the new clinics, though that matters when you're forty minutes from anywhere
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Ty's Take They've gone and put a robot to work in the Sierra County schools, which tells you something about where we are right now—not just in education, but in a town that's betting on the future while half the county's
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Ty's Take The Fourth went sideways this year—accidents during the celebration, a wildfire that turned big over the weekend, and flash flooding down in the Mimbres all hitting the county hard enough to remind us that Independence Day out here comes with real risks. Meanwhile a woman&
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Ty's Take The Aspen Acres and Willow fires have us watching the sky the way we used to watch the snowpack—checking forecasts like they're water reports, because out here the two aren't that different anymore. Rain coming Tuesday might help containment or might
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Ty's Take Music doesn't ask much of a town—just a room and people willing to listen—but it does something to a place that nothing else quite manages. When somebody like Baum shows up at The Rolla Mission, it's not just a concert
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Ty's Take We're in that squeeze again—Stage 2 fire restrictions kicking in next week, which means the whole county holds its breath until monsoon season actually shows up, and meanwhile the property values keep climbing because people from the Front Range can't stop