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Ty's Take We're in that stretch where the valley shows its true colors—one day you're watching fireworks on F Street, the next you're tracking evacuation zones that keep creeping closer to home. The Aspen Acres and Willow fires have us all
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a small Ozarks county pushing the smooth chanterelle as Missouri's official state mushroom—a fungus that doesn't announce itself, grows quiet and persistent in the right conditions, and shows up in your kitchen if you know
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Ty's Take Water trouble in Red Lodge hits different when you're talking about a town that's built its whole economy on having enough of it—for the ski hill, for the visitors, for the ranches that still matter out here. A shut-off notice means
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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs like it does in July down here at elevation, we tend to think about tourists overheating on the trails or folks forgetting water on the golf course. But the piece on Alzheimer's and extreme temps reminds us that some
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Ty's Take We lost two good neighbors this week—Evelyn Ward, who saw this town built from the ground up on the plateau, and Allen Sherwood, who lived most of his life here watching it change. That's what a slow July Fourth weekend means in a
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Ty's Take That generator fire over in the garage is a reminder that come winter—or whenever the power flickers out around here—half the folks who pull one out of the shed have no business operating it indoors. We run these stories every few years and people
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Ty's Take Three of our county's veterinarians are heading out on an Honor Flight, and that's worth noting in a place where we still understand what it means when somebody steps up to serve. You don't have to look far in Texas
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Ty's Take Violence over nothing—a cigarette, a workplace argument that turns into hands around somebody's throat—tells you something about the pressure cooker this country has become. You can blame the heat, blame close quarters in small towns, blame whatever you want, but when two
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Ty's Take The West End water treatment plant creeping toward the finish line says something about this city that doesn't always get said out loud—we're still growing, still betting on ourselves, still willing to spend the money to handle what comes next. That
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Ty's Take The Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo coming back around means the whole county gets to exhale for a weekend—the ranchers, the business folks downtown, the kids who've been waiting since last summer to see the bucking stock roll in. That rodeo grounds beside
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Ty's Take The Morphew trial waiting until 2027 feels like something this valley needs to finally put down—not forget, but lay to rest proper—and maybe that's the only way forward when a case has lived in the headlines longer than some kids have been
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Ty's Take County law enforcement across the region had a couple rough days this week—drug busts down in Douglas and a shooting situation over in Carter that ended with somebody in custody. These aren't the kind of headlines that surprise anybody who works in a