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Ty's Take Elephant Butte keeps dropping, and now somebody's trying to pull water out of the air at Spaceport America while we're under a conservation alert down here in town. You'd think that'd be backwards, but this is the kind
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Ty's Take A school teacher arrested, a new funeral home pitching affordability, and the university planning its biggest homecoming yet—on the surface, this is just Tuesday in Grant County. But there's something about a slow week like this one that reminds you how much of
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Ty's Take You could parse all the council dust from the past week, the apologies and the pulled agendas and the short-term rental rules, but what it really amounts to is Salida growing too fast for the people running it to keep up. A fifty-thousand-dollar
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small county holds onto its stories, and this week Phelps County's got a few worth keeping. The Doug Berlin collection heading to the State Historical Society means somebody finally decided our corner of the Ozarks deserves
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Ty's Take The school board's decision to ask voters for an eighty-million-dollar bond in November is going to focus this town's mind like nothing else on the ballot this fall. You can read the editorials starting to stack up in the Daily
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Ty's Take The Police Department's town hall on automated license plate readers drew a packed house, which tells you something about how this town thinks about security versus privacy. Around here, you've got plenty of both concerns, all of them legitimate. You've
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Ty's Take City Council renamed the golf course this week, and maybe that's small stuff in the grand scheme of things, but anybody who's lived here long enough knows these decisions matter more than the vote tally suggests. A golf course is where business
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Sunny · Tonight 78° Mostly Clear · Friday 99° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take The Shootout brought the usual thunder across these waters this past weekend, boats moving fast enough
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Ty's Take Barbara Ann White and Mary Virginia Earp both lived long lives in Texas County, and now the community that knew them is smaller. That's the way of things in a county this size, where generations overlap and you can trace family trees like timber
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week, and if you've been around the valley long enough, you knew him or knew of him. These small towns run on people who show up, who know the land and the work, who don't make a
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still if you're the family wondering whether justice was ever actually coming. The charges filed this week in the Tory Sanders case pull at something Shannon County hasn't quite been
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Ty's Take Look, when the Chamber director stands up and says she's staying committed to local business, that's worth printing, but it's also the kind of thing that gets said and then forgotten by next month. What matters is whether the mom-