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Ty's Take There's something about spring in a crossroads town—everybody's looking ahead at the same time, wondering what gets fixed and what gets left behind. Lebanon's got a handful of those decisions stacked up right now: whether the ballfields get a
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Ty's Take School budgets tightening, healthcare clinics moving, fraud scammers working the phones—it's the kind of week that reminds you why the small-town institutions matter. West Plains isn't big enough to absorb these shifts quietly. When enrollment slides and revenue follows, a school
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Ty's Take You can read through a week's worth of local news and watch a town arguing with itself about everything except what matters. We're fighting over tiny homes and airport layouts and who said what to the whistleblower while the water keeps moving
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Ty's Take The Sacaton Fire's got the Gila closed off again, and that's hitting different this year—not because fires are new to us, but because the dry season came early and mean, and everybody out there knows what that means for August. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Mark Dewey Zupan getting named Veterans of the Year isn't just about honoring one man—it's about what we're asking of the people who stick around after they've done their service. Corporal Zupan came back to Red Lodge
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Ty's Take The deadline for that state electrification rebate program got moved up to August 1st, which means if you've been thinking about swapping out that old propane heater or electric range, you're running short on time to get your application in the door.
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend at the lake always runs hot—this year literally, with triple digits in the forecast—but what's got people scrambling isn't the heat. Two separate fireworks contracts fell through just days before the holiday, leaving Osage Beach and
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still to live in a county where the people sworn to keep the peace end up being the ones you're wondering about. The charges coming down now against former law enforcement in
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration hit the wire yesterday, and if you've been out past the city limits lately you already knew it was coming—the land's been telling us for months. Fire season's here early and hot, and
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Ty's Take Fire season's already here and we haven't hit the worst heat yet—the burn ban going into effect this week is the kind of thing folks up here know to take seriously, whether you're running cattle on a land grant
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Ty's Take When a man with means decides to bet on the survival of local newspapers, it's worth asking why—and worth listening to the answer. David Hoffmann's millions flowing back into the papers that serve towns like ours isn't charity so
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show coming up this weekend is the kind of thing that reminds you why people who leave Big Timber keep coming back—pilots landing on the strip, folks polishing up their restorations out in the sun, that particular kind of Saturday that