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Ty's Take Jory Thomas left this town better than he found it, which is about the highest thing you can say about anybody who grows up here and stays put long enough to matter. The Pioneer's piece today reminds us that some people don't
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Ty's Take The fishing restrictions coming down from Yellowstone are going to sting some folks who've been planning late summer trips, but the park service didn't do this on a whim. When you're seeing pressure like that on the rivers and streams,
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Ty's Take Tourism money flowing into Montana hit $5.6 billion last year, and you can bet some of those dollars made their way through Sweet Grass County, whether it was fuel at the stations along the highway, a meal in town, or a guide service heading up
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Ty's Take The vote at the mill wasn't close, and that tells you something about what the company's last offer looked like to the men and women who work there. When a union membership turns down a contract by the kind of margin we
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Ty's Take Jory Thomas spent his whole life around here, knew these mountains and this river the way some people know their own hands. He was the kind of man who showed up, who did the work, who didn't need a lot of fanfare about it.
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Ty's Take A $10,000 gift to the Carnegie Library doesn't sound like much until you've watched a county seat library operate on a shoestring, and then you understand it's the difference between keeping the doors open and hoping someone upstairs remembers
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Ty's Take Fair week coming up means the fairgrounds north of town will look like the whole county decided to show up at once, which is pretty much what happens. The kids will have their stock in the barns before dawn, the 4-H booths will be running
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Ty's Take The cattle count stays flat, the wolf pack leaves the park, and now the state wants grizzlies off the federal leash. Any rancher will tell you these three things don't sit separate from each other, they're all part of the same pressure
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Ty's Take County fair season's here, which means the whole valley stops what it's doing for a week and remembers why we stay put in Sweet Grass County. You'll see the same families working the same booths their parents worked, kids showing
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Ty's Take Out here we've always known the wind doesn't blow for free—it's just taken us a while to figure out what to do with it. The open house on the wind farm gives folks a chance to see what 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
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Ty's Take Making the honor roll at Northwest College doesn't happen by accident, especially when you're commuting down from Sweet Grass County and working a job on the side like most kids do out here. These students earned their names on that list the