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Ty's Take Tim Fife spent forty-some years working at the Lab, one of those quiet engineers you'd pass in the hallway without knowing he'd helped build something that changed the world. Those initials after his name—PE, PMP, SCPM—they're the
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Ty's Take Every year this recognition hits different, because you're not reading about somebody's achievements in some distant place, you're looking at names you pass at the grocery store, at church, at the boat ramp. The Chamber's Wall of Honor
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which means she saw this valley change from something smaller into something bigger, and probably had opinions about most of it. The Bulletin didn't run much more than that this morning, just the notice that she'
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On the Water TodayToday 78° Sunny · Tonight 54° Clear · Tuesday 82° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take A woman from Eldon lost her life on Highway 63 this week, and the details are still coming in, but there's not much that needs explaining
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Ty's Take Two separate reminders this week that the roads and trails around Texas County don't forgive carelessness. A man ended up in Springfield hospital after an ATV accident north of Willow Springs, the kind of thing that happens when you're moving fast through
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates and Thomas Ocie Williams, both gone this week, both names that meant something in the valley. That's how it works in towns like this, where you see the same families at the co-op, at church, at the roasting sheds when
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small paper's pages turn over from one week to the next that tells you who we are up here. This week it's the pets waiting at the shelter and the scattered briefs that don&
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Ty's Take When the University of Montana Western comes to town for football this weekend, they're walking into a Rocky squad that's figured out how to win the games that matter. Three straight victories to open the season, including that upset over Southern Oregon
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Ty's Take The Sacramento Mountains are running cold enough now that the trout are moving back into the shallows, and that means the next six weeks are about as good as it gets around here if you know where to drop a line. Fall's the season
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Ty's Take Halloween on the Square next year gives West Plains something to look forward to, and Lord knows we could use a few more reasons to gather downtown when the weather's decent and people aren't worried about the next thing. But the real
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Ty's Take Poll workers seeing things that don't quite add up, then the county clerk stepping forward to answer the questions. That's the kind of civic machinery that either works or it doesn't, and around here we tend to notice when the
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Ty's Take Watching the House District 39 candidates lay out their cases, you get a reminder that Silver City's never been a one-note town. One's got roots here going back decades, another's fresh to the area with new ideas, and both