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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
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Ty's Take A hundred years on this earth and still somebody you want to give a ride to—that's the kind of thing that sticks with you in a town like this. These two folks are living proof that Sweet Grass County doesn't use
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Ty's Take The ICE raids down in Gallatin County this week hit closer to home than some folks around here want to admit—we've got neighbors and friends in the agricultural and construction trades who live with that kind of uncertainty every single day, and when
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Ty's Take The Milwaukee Bridge finally got the green light, which means somebody upstairs believes we can actually fix what's been crumbling over the Yellowstone for the better part of a decade. July 16 bid solicitation puts this thing maybe a year out from actual construction,
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Ty's Take The Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo coming back around means the whole county gets to exhale for a weekend—the ranchers, the business folks downtown, the kids who've been waiting since last summer to see the bucking stock roll in. That rodeo grounds beside
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show coming up this weekend is the kind of thing that reminds you why people who leave Big Timber keep coming back—pilots landing on the strip, folks polishing up their restorations out in the sun, that particular kind of Saturday
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Ty's Take Couple of our kids made the Northwest College Honor Roll this semester, which means they're carrying Big Timber's name up to Powell and holding their own in the classroom—worth noting in a county where half the seniors head straight to work