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Ty's Take The Gazette's move to new digs is worth watching, not because anyone cares much where the printing press sits, but because the paper's commitment to staying put matters in a town like this. Regional papers are vanishing across the country, gutted by
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Ty's Take A car through the fence at Dehler Park on a Friday morning, a double murder confession out in Stillwater County, and the usual stack of obits that remind us who we've lost this week. That's September in Billings, which is to say
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Ty's Take Wind gusts that push past seventy miles an hour don't discriminate between what they knock over in town and what they uproot out at the cemetery, which is why this week's windstorm that rattled Butte and worked its way across the region
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Ty's Take A man goes missing and turns up dead near Two Moon Park. A young hockey player is mourned on the way to his memorial. New kindergarteners walk through school doors for the first time, and somewhere in town a family is reading an obituary they didn&
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Ty's Take The Gazette's move downtown is one of those small pivots that signals something bigger about where Billings thinks it's headed. Same town, new address, but the message is clear: the paper's staying invested in the core while the city itself
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Ty's Take When a former Griz and NFL guy takes the head coaching job at Big Sky High, you're getting more than a resume. You're getting somebody who's lived the path these kids are dreaming about, who knows what it takes to
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of slow news day that tells you more about a place than the headline stories ever could. You get the obits and the pool photos and the Shop With a Cop event, and what you're really reading is
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Ty's Take The small gestures matter most on days like this one. NorthWestern Energy's ten grand to Toby's House, a community that just lost neighbors we didn't know we'd miss until we read their names in the paper, a house
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Ty's Take There are days when a newspaper runs the obits and the sports scores and feels like it's just going through the motions, and then there are days like this, when those same routines sit alongside the hardest stories a community has to tell. Sunday&
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Ty's Take This town has had a hard week, and the candlelight vigil at Veterans Park shows what we do when the weight gets too heavy to carry alone. A psychiatrist's advice on coping has its place, sure, but there's something that matters more
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Ty's Take The weight of the past few days sits heavy on Billings this morning. A family turned upside down by unthinkable violence, a community gathering quietly to remember lives cut short, a man pulled from the Yellowstone, and now the machinery of justice grinding forward with charges
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Ty's Take A shooter killed eight people in Billings on Sunday, then set a fire that brought our firefighters running into a home where hydrants had run dry. That's the kind of detail that matters in a moment like this, when you're trying to