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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing about a community that makes room for a geology tour, especially one that walks people through their own backyard. Most folks around here know the Crazy Mountains by sight and the Yellowstone River by sound, but how many have actually
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of tension that settles over a mining town when the union and management can't find ground, and even though the Stillwater Mine operation is up the road in Stillwater County, plenty of folks around here have family punching
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Ty's Take The East Boulder mine strike is the kind of thing that settles into a valley whether you work there or not. Men on picket lines, families doing the math on missed paychecks, and everyone else watching to see how long this holds and what comes out
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Ty's Take The Sweet Grass Community Foundation's Give Where You Live campaign is one of those quiet yearly rituals that doesn't make much noise until you look at what it actually funds around here, then you realize how much of what keeps this county
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Ty's Take Sheepherder Square is one of those projects that takes longer than anybody figures, mostly because folks around here want it done right instead of done quick. The completion date creeping up means we're finally going to have something the town's been needing
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Ty's Take Twenty-five years is long enough for a generation of Sweet Grass County kids to grow up hardly remembering what September 11th felt like when it happened, which is exactly why the Pioneer's right to keep pushing the anniversary events this month. Memory work
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Ty's Take The strike at East Boulder has a way of focusing the mind around here. When the picket lines go up, you feel it in the coffee shops and at the feed store, and this one's different because everybody knows somebody on both sides of
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Ty's Take The foundation's Give Where You Live push comes at a moment when this county needs reminding that community money staying in community hands still matters, especially when the strike situation up the valley is reminding everyone how fast things can turn lean. East Boulder&
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Ty's Take A young hiker from Bozeman found dead in the Park County high country is the kind of story that lands different out here, where people know the mountains aren't forgiving and a day trip can turn serious fast. The details are still coming, but
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Ty's Take The contract fight at Sibanye isn't done yet, and a September 3rd strike date means whoever's been holding back on a handshake deal needs to get serious in the next few weeks. These labor fights in the mining counties up the valley
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Ty's Take The cattle market's been running on fumes for two years now, and word that another processing plant's closing down just makes it official: we're in a pinch that won't fix itself by spring. Fewer head to market, fewer
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Ty's Take Homeward Bound's ninety projects completed in one month says something about what happens when you've got volunteers who actually show up and get the work done instead of talking about it. That's the kind of outfit that keeps a town