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Ty's Take The sheriff's race this cycle is shaping up the way these things do in small counties—two people who know the land and the people, who've both got roots here, squaring off over who gets to hold the job for the next
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Ty's Take TJ Comstock built seven hardware stores across Montana, but he's closing the Billings location where it all started—and that's worth thinking about. You can read it as a business story, sure, another Main Street shift as retail changes shape. But it&
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Ty's Take Election season's heating up in the valley, which means we're about to spend the next few months learning what our neighbors actually think about water, development, and whether Adams State's footprint should keep growing. Sherry Perdue's thrown her
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Ty's Take Sometimes a town shows you who it is by the things people choose to build in hard times. A new cidery up in High Rolls, a musician's legacy getting its due, a life remembered in these pages—these aren't the kind of
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Ty's Take Out here, we don't often get to see the machinery of justice work in our favor, but the decision to drop charges against that Arkansas man—a father who acted to protect his daughter—reminds us that sometimes the law catches up with what
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Ty's Take Screwworms don't usually make the news around here until they've already made their way through a herd, which is why that confirmed case over in the county deserves the attention it's getting today. These parasites don't care much
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Ty's Take Two new faces on the County Commission, a downtown storefront filling after months vacant, five brush fires that didn't spread—on the surface, a decent week in Grant County. But underneath it's the usual tug-of-war that never really quits around
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Ty's Take A grizzly working the country south of town is a reminder that we live in a place where the wild still has first claim on the land, and it changes how you think about everything else—your evening walk, your kid's summer camp, the
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Ty's Take Stage 1 fire restrictions are up, the water conservancy is still working through the Rio Blanco dispute, and folks down in Arboles are worried about drilling—which means the usual spring conversation is happening all over again, the one where we talk about who gets what
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman was the kind of person this valley needed—someone who showed up and stayed, who understood that a life well-lived around here meant working with your hands and your heart both. The loss of someone like that hits different in a
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Ty's Take A motorcyclist swerving to miss a deer, six school buses pulled for safety, chlorine pumps going in at water wells across the county—the kind of week where you notice the systems holding things together, and the moments they almost don't. The Rotary raised
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands different when you're looking at your well gauge instead of a statewide map, and every farmer from here to the Florida Mountains knows it. New Mexico's been running on fumes for years, but Luna County