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Ty's Take Late August in Billings always feels like the moment between things, that stretch when school supplies are flying off shelves, when parents hunt down shot records and the immunization clinics fill up, when a new university president stands up and talks about vision and work ahead.
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Ty's Take Homeward Bound finished out July strong with ninety projects under their belt, and that kind of steady work is what keeps a town like this standing. Meanwhile, the union's got until the 28th to vote on a third contract offer, which tells you negotiations
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Ty's Take Thirty years of managing timber sales, wilderness permits, and the constant balancing act between recreation and resource protection comes to an end this month when the Saguache district ranger hangs it up. That's a long tenure in one of the most complicated positions you
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Ty's Take The Tigers took care of business Friday night, which is what you want to see before the real schedule starts grinding in October. Forty-one to thirty-three against Santa Fe says the offense showed up and the defense found its footing, and that matters more
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Ty's Take Oregon-Howell R-III just caught a break that doesn't come around often. A state grant to replace a diesel school bus, no cost to the district, means that money stays in the classroom instead of going to a mechanic. Around here where school
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Ty's Take The copper mine hearing, the spaceport whistleblower's mixed court results, and a police building contract going down to El Paso instead of staying closer to home—three stories that say something true about where we are right now. We're caught between the
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to see a school lose its fields, but the talk about Altamirano is worth paying attention to because it says something about how tight things are getting around here. When a district starts looking at what it owns and thinking hard about what it
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Ty's Take The wildfire smoke that's been hanging over the valley for weeks is finally lifting, and that matters more than it sounds like it should. Air quality that bad wears on people in ways that don't show up in the official count, keeps
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Ty's Take St. James got itself a new chamber director, which might not seem like much until you remember that wine country doesn't run on good intentions. The viticulture operation down there in Osage County draws tourists, supports tasting rooms, and keeps that whole stretch south
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Ty's Take The commissioners are asking voters to dig deeper into their pockets for the lodging tax, and you can read that move a couple of ways depending on which side of the second-home divide you're standing on. Those pushing it will tell you the
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Ty's Take The USDA's move to strip back roadless restrictions in the Jemez makes sense on paper if you're worried about fuel loads and fire breaks, but up here on the plateau we've seen what happens when you open forest roads to
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Ty's Take A drowning at a local campground and a parking lot loitering call might seem like separate problems, but they tell the same story about what happens when summer kicks into high gear around here. The warm months bring more people to our rivers and parks, more