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Ty's Take A young hiker from Bozeman is dead in the Park County backcountry, and while the details are still coming together, it's a reminder that these mountains don't care how fit you are or how well you think you know the country. We&
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Ty's Take The library's new defibrillator is the kind of thing that doesn't make headlines until the moment it matters, and then it's the only thing that matters. Meanwhile, out at the state park and down in Reed Point, people are getting
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Ty's Take Farmers market season runs through mid-September, which means Friday afternoons in Big Timber are about to look a lot like they did last summer. Local growers, honey vendors, and folks selling jams and preserves will set up their tables, and if you know this town,
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Ty's Take Homeward Bound finished out July strong with ninety projects under their belt, and that kind of steady work is what keeps a town like this standing. Meanwhile, the union's got until the 28th to vote on a third contract offer, which tells you negotiations
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Ty's Take Summer's hanging on by its fingernails around here, and there's plenty of work left to do before the season fully turns. The county fair wrapped up another good sale, the farmers market keeps running Fridays through mid-September, and if you'
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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