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Ty's Take You've got to pay attention when the big development money starts filing Chapter 11 around here—it usually means somebody's backyard is about to look a lot different than they planned. Jeff Tegethoff's bankruptcy filing and his sudden exit from
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Ty's Take A doctor from the Blackfeet reservation blowing the whistle on a clinic dispensing tens of thousands of pain pills—that's the kind of story that sits heavy on you, because you know the math by now. Those pills don't disappear. They get
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Ty's Take The weekly cops and courts rundown sits thin this week—a few citations, nothing that'd shake the county—but that's the kind of news that keeps a place like Sweet Grass running steady. You notice it more when you've sat
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Ty's Take Election season's already heating up in the valley, which means the road shows are rolling in and the usual promises are getting dusted off for another round. Alex Kelloff's bringing his By The People Tour through Alamosa, and fair enough—that'
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Ty's Take The Great Sand Dunes pulled in more visitors than ever these first four months of the year, which tells you something about what people are hungry for—space, silence, something that doesn't require a WiFi password. That's good news for the valley&
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Ty's Take There's something about late spring in Otero County when the all-star rosters come out and the fishing reports turn serious—it's the moment when kids and their parents both remember why they stick around a place like this. Four or five
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Ty's Take Milan Mimcilovic turning down the NBA draft to play college ball at Kentucky tells you something about West Plains and what this town can build when it decides to do something right—a kid with legitimate pro options choosing the long road instead, and choosing to
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Ty's Take The new auditor's coming in swinging, and Truth or Consequences is getting the kind of hard look it probably needed anyway—no sugar, just the numbers on whether this town's been padding its utility revenues like they used to do back in
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Ty's Take First responders in Grant County had themselves a hell of a Wednesday afternoon—rolling out on what looked like a routine overdose call only to get caught in some kind of airborne hazard that sent them scrambling. We don't have all the details yet,
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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 Highway 160 tearing up downtown this week means you'll either find an alternate route or you'll sit in it—and honestly, either way it's probably worth the aggravation if it gets us a road that won't need this
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Ty's Take There's a boil order in Eldon again, which means somebody's water treatment isn't holding like it should, and that gets people's attention in a lake region where water quality touches everything from tourism to property values to whether