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Ty's Take Tuesday's primary is going to draw the usual crowd—people who show up every time, and a lot of folks who'll realize at their kitchen table that they forgot it was happening. That's the way it goes in a county
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Ty's Take You don't have to follow college sports real close to know what Missouri State-West Plains means to this county—the Zizzers bring opportunity and a pipeline to something bigger for kids who might not otherwise have it, and when the Big 12 moves,
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before this town changed its name, and it'll be the conversation long after we're gone—but May's usually when the real reckoning starts. Elephant Butte's levels aren't
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Ty's Take Tyce Delk's invitation to the Grand Ole Opry is the kind of thing that reminds you Silver City's got deeper roots than the Chino pit ever went—his great-grandfather founded The Delk Band right here, and now the kid gets to
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Ty's Take Dr. Cody Daniels opening up that new dental space on the north end isn't just another business expansion—it's one of the few signs we're seeing that somebody still believes the fundamentals of this town work. Dentistry, like ranching or
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Ty's Take Summer's already halfway gone and we haven't even hit the real heat yet, which means August's coming fast—and with it, the Duck Drop and all the rest of it. The lake's got a way of filling up
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Ty's Take A man from Alcalde pleading guilty to felonies, the Senior Center back open, Holy Cross Catholic School shutting its doors—three pieces of news that tell you something about what's happening in this country right now, and none of it's particularly easy
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Ty's Take Chris Kukulski's goodbye to Billings is the kind of thing that sticks with you in a town this size—a man who helped build something here deciding it's time to build something smaller, somewhere quieter. You don't hear that story
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Ty's Take That's the kind of talk you hear when somebody's actually put skin in the game—when they're not just running a business but trying to build something that matters. The Valley Courier folks know they're swimming upstream against
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Ty's Take Anybody who's watched West Plains grow over the last decade knows it runs on people showing up and doing the work—the school folks, the civic groups, the ones who see something needs doing and step in. This week's got that feeling
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Ty's Take Monsoon talk hitting the forecast desk already, farmers getting word about emergency loans, and somebody finally pushing road safety—which tells you we're in that strange stretch where water's on everybody's mind but nobody knows which way it cuts. Could
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Ty's Take What strikes you about an 11% early turnout is that it's low enough to matter—folks either haven't made up their minds yet or they're waiting for Election Day proper, and in a county this size, that's the