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Ty's Take Summer's coming early to the planning stages around here, which means the phones at the chamber are already ringing with folks trying to figure out the Yellowstone puzzle. The park puts out these lists every couple years—parking tips, trail conditions, when the geysers
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Ty's Take A grizzly working the country south of town is a reminder that we live in a place where the wild still has first claim on the land, and it changes how you think about everything else—your evening walk, your kid's summer camp, the
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Ty's Take Water's been a conversation at every coffee shop counter in this valley for years now, and when the town has to shut it off—even for maintenance, even for a few hours—it reminds everyone why. Red Lodge sits where it does because of
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Ty's Take The Roberts levy passing by that narrow margin says something true about this county right now—we want our schools funded, we know what happens when they aren't, but we're also stretched thin enough that every bond vote feels like a conversation
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Ty's Take The Wyoming side of the Beartooth stays locked up a little longer this spring, which means another week or two before the high country really opens up to the tourists and the folks who live for those first runs through the passes. It's the
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Ty's Take Red Lodge's losing a fixture this week—the collision center guy hanging it up to fish full time—and you can't blame him one bit, but it's the kind of small shift that changes how a town feels. Someone who&
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Ty's Take We've gotten used to bear activity shutting things down around here—it's the price of living where we live—but having to close school buildings hits different. Bridger Elementary and the high school both locked their doors this week because of persistent
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Ty's Take Montana's kept same-day voter registration, which means come November folks in Carbon County can still walk in and register at the polls if they haven't done it yet—no advance paperwork required. There's something to be said for that
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Ty's Take Slow week in the county, which this time of year usually means everybody's either fixing what broke over winter or getting ready for the season ahead. The briefs column is where you find the real texture of a place like ours—who's
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Ty's Take The county's taking a hard look at what we've actually got to work with when it comes to tourism—inventory and strategy, they're calling it—and that's the kind of unglamorous thinking that keeps a place from getting
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Ty's Take The commissioners are meeting, the trolley's making noise again, and somebody's still worried about litter on the roadsides—which tells you everything you need to know about a Tuesday in Red Lodge. When a town this size can hold onto its institutions
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Ty's Take Montana's going to let people register and vote the same day come November, which is the kind of thing that sounds simple until you're actually running a polling place and trying to verify someone's residency while the line's