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Ty's Take The McCauley Springs Fire sitting at a hundred percent contained is the kind of headline this town learned to hold its breath over back in 2000 and again in 2011—you don't let yourself relax until the last ember's cold and the
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Ty's Take Lebanon's having one of those weeks where you can see the town working on itself—the school board locked in a budget that includes expansion of the Early Childhood Center, which means somebody's thinking about the next generation staying put here instead
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Ty's Take An alderman facing cocaine charges, a tanker full of ammonium nitrate flipped on a county road, and talk of putting a curfew on kids downtown—that's the kind of week that reminds you the lake's not all sunshine and vacation rentals. Sure,
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Ty's Take There's always been a thin line in cattle country between a man's livelihood and the temptation that comes with hard times, and this week we saw both sides of it play out in Texas County—one fellow heading to prison for taking
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Ty's Take Deb Haaland's got a lot of pull in Santa Fe these days, and her endorsement of Garcia Richard in the state house race landed in this week's Sun like a stone in still water—the kind that creates ripples all the way
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Ty's Take The St. Peter's and Billings Clinic announcement reads like a chess move dressed up in partnership language, which tells you something about where our two anchor health systems stand—committed enough to coordinate, not quite ready to merge. That matters for a region that
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Ty's Take You don't get a day like this in Sweet Grass County very often—the kind where a kid from town takes home a state 4-H title, a local business ends up in the national news cycle because a former president walked through the door,
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Ty's Take The groundwater fight that's grinding through district court this week is the same argument that's been simmering in this valley since before most of us were born—who gets to drink, and who gets to watch their ditches run dry. You can
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Ty's Take Slow Tuesday in the Ozarks, the kind of day that reminds you how this region works—we lose good people, we mourn them, and life keeps moving forward. The obits in this week's paper read like a roster of names you'd see
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Ty's Take Williamsburg's new budget reads like a town that's finally convinced itself the future's worth building for—ninety cents of every dollar going straight into capital projects instead of just keeping the lights on and patching potholes. You don't
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Ty's Take The road back into the high country opens again this week, which matters more than it sounds—not just for the folks who were evacuated, but for the whole delicate balance this county's been trying to strike for years. When Bursum Road closes, it&
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Ty's Take The county's having one of those weeks where you can read the whole stack and still feel like you're watching separate movies—fire crews managing the Aspen Acres evacuation zone, the landfill burning for reasons nobody knows yet, folks down south getting