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Ty's Take The farmers market coming back to town this week is about more than tomatoes and squash, though Lord knows we need both after this dry stretch. It's the first real signal that summer's actually here in the valley, the one weekend morning
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Ty's Take The streetlights downtown have been out for weeks now, and nobody seems to know exactly when they'll come back on. Could be a contractor issue, could be the city budget, could be both. What strikes you when you drive past the closed storefronts after
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Ty's Take Street work on a Tuesday morning in West Plains means timing, and the city's got that notice out there for folks who need to plan around it. But what caught my eye in this week's roundup was Ozarks Healthcare landing that regional
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Ty's Take Two small stories today, but they point at something real about what holds a town together when money's tight and futures are uncertain. An art auction brought people in, which means somebody's making something beautiful around here instead of just complaining, and
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Ty's Take Grant County's losing its county manager in October, which means somebody's got to know where all the bodies are buried, figuratively speaking. That's institutional knowledge you can't fake, and it usually takes a new person six months just
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Ty's Take A firefighter from the Knowles Fire has died, and that loss sits heavy on all of us who watched that fire tear through the valley last summer. Three others have already been lost to injuries from that same blaze, which means the real cost of that
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Ty's Take The solar car race pulling into Rolla on Tuesday is exactly the kind of thing that makes this town different, and not just because Missouri S&T's engineering students built one of the competing vehicles. You've got kids from schools across
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Ty's Take The library's switch from CloudLibrary to Hoopla is the kind of behind-the-scenes shuffle that doesn't make anyone's day, but it matters more than folks realize when you're trying to keep a small-town collection relevant and
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Ty's Take Project Y Robotics hosting New Mexico's first FIRST competition this year says something about what this town does best: take kids with half an idea and the kind of problem-solving DNA that comes from growing up around engineers and physicists, then point them
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Ty's Take School board voted Monday night to move forward with expansion of the Early Childhood Center, and the budget passed without the usual back-and-forth that tends to wear these meetings down. That's worth noting in a town where families with young kids have
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On the Water TodayToday 99° Sunny · Tonight 79° Mostly Clear · Monday 99° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take A boat went up in flames out on these waters yesterday with four people aboard, and everybody walked away from it. That's the kind of