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Ty's Take Bowling's been slow at the alley on Main since the kids got smartphones, but somebody's figured out the fix: knock over a stuffed moose and you've got their attention. Good luck to whoever's running that promotion, though around
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Ty's Take The antelope opener came in colder and wetter than most folks around here like it, but that's the deal when you hunt in October—weather does what it wants and game moves accordingly. Meanwhile the union crew's back at the mine and
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Ty's Take Sixth graders down at the school are learning where those cottonwoods and Douglas firs come from, how they grow, what they're worth to the country around them. That's the kind of thing that sticks with you, whether you end up running cattle
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Ty's Take Not much to go on with a single headline about the Sweet Grass Royals, but that's the name of the county's scholarship pageant, and if the Pioneer's got it in the paper this week then somebody just won the crown
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Ty's Take The Montana Stockgrowers Association convention down in Billings next month will draw the usual crowd of outfit owners, feed salesmen, and state ag officials, but this year's gathering matters more than most. Cattle prices have been playing ping-pong for two years straight, input
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making headlines. But there's some good stuff moving anyway: the high school's recognizing solid students, the library's figured out how to let people look
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Ty's Take The strike's settled down in Nye and Columbus, and that tentative agreement the union voted to accept means the Burlington Northern crews and yard workers over there can get back to normal operations pretty quick now. These labor disputes in the rail yards always
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Ty's Take Singeli Agnew's coming back to Big Timber to talk about her documentary work, and that's worth clearing your calendar for. She's the kind of person this town should be paying attention to, the ones who leave and then come home
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Ty's Take The mining dispute up at Nye and Columbus keeps grinding on while East Boulder settles, which tells you something about how fractured things have gotten in the hardrock business around here. Strikes that split operations down the middle usually mean nobody's quite satisfied enough
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Ty's Take Singeli Agnew coming back to talk about her documentary is the kind of thing that reminds you why a small town matters. She's made something worth watching, something that took her out into the world and presumably taught her things, and now she'
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Ty's Take The East Boulder picket line is still up, negotiations are still going, and that's about all anybody knows for certain right now. What's worth watching is how long a strike like this holds in a county where most people know somebody working
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Ty's Take Homecoming week tends to bring out what's best in a small town, and the Sweet Grass Herders are no exception. While there's labor trouble south of here and court business keeping the sheriff's office busy, our high school's