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Ty's Take The residency question hanging over one of our council members is the kind of small-town problem that feels big when trust is on the line. These aren't faceless bureaucrats we're talking about, they're neighbors, and when someone's
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Ty's Take Green infrastructure sounds like something dreamed up in a conference room, but what it really means is letting water do what water wants to do instead of fighting it every step. Rain gardens, permeable pavement, restored wetlands, native plantings—the kind of stuff that soaks things
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Ty's Take Smoke rolling down from the fires up high is the kind of thing that sneaks up on you if you're not paying attention, and by the time you notice the haze, your dog's already spent the afternoon outside breathing it in. The
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Ty's Take Sherry Weamer's twelve years running things at the Senior and Community Center doesn't sound like much until you've actually lived through it in a town this size. That's a dozen seasons of keeping people connected, keeping programs running
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Ty's Take The not guilty verdict in the Sherrod case closes one chapter, but it's worth sitting with what the trial revealed about how we investigate and prosecute serious crimes in a county this size. When the stakes are this high and the resources this thin,
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Ty's Take Fair season's wrapped up, which means the work's not done, it's just shifting. You spend all year raising stock and growing vegetables for those few days in August, then you spend the rest of it figuring out what the judges
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Ty's Take John McCampbell turned 100 this week, and if you've spent any time around Red Lodge you've probably crossed paths with a man who actually did the things most of us just talk about doing. The piece about him looking back got me
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Ty's Take Early season bears coming down lower than usual means the usual warnings: don't leave garbage out, keep your distance, and for God's sake don't get between a sow and her cubs. But what it really means is the food sources
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Ty's Take Weather's been running hot and dry through the basin, which nobody needs to tell the folks managing water through late summer and into fall. The piece in this week's News on how Carbon County's holding steady through the extremes is
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Ty's Take Fifty-two million federal dollars flowing into wildlife conservation and outdoor access across the region, new wayfinding signs going up around town to help visitors find their way, and Yellowstone tightening the reins on fishing in those rivers and streams again. Add it all up and
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Ty's Take A quilt show drawing a crowd in Red Lodge says something about who we are up here. There's skill in those stitches, sure, and people come for the colors and the patterns, but there's also something else going on when a room
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Ty's Take The quilt show coming through town this weekend is the kind of thing that doesn't make the evening news anywhere else, but it matters here because it's about time and hands and what people do when they're not hauling hay