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Red Lodge Daily Digest Monday, May 18, 2026

Ty McDuffey

18 May 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

Slow week in the county, which this time of year usually means everybody's either fixing what broke over winter or getting ready for the season ahead. The briefs column is where you find the real texture of a place like ours—who's back from where, what the school's doing, which roads are finally passable again. It's easy to overlook that kind of thing when you're chasing bigger stories, but it's these small notices that tell you whether a community's holding together or coming loose at the seams. Red Lodge is holding together just fine.

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