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Ty's Take Hospitals in towns this size don't expand without reason, and Gila Regional's new MRI machine says something about where Silver City sits right now. We're not shrinking anymore. The Gran Fondo brought out cyclists and volunteers on the same weekend,
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Ty's Take Mountain Valley Transit cutting routes because the money dried up in Washington is the kind of thing that happens to places like ours, and it stings different than it does elsewhere. In a town where half the people don't have reliable vehicles and the
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Ty's Take Slow news week in the county, which means it's a good time to remember what really holds a place together. You've got folks showing up to the historical society to hear about log cabins, the GOP planning their annual picnic, someone working
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Ty's Take The rain coming in over the next few days might not solve our water situation, but it's worth paying attention to because everything here lives or dies on what falls from the sky and where it goes after. Highway 160's tore up
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Ty's Take You can't swing a cat on the Hill right now without hitting someone worried about housing, and for good reason. The Lab keeps growing, people keep coming, and what used to be affordable mountain living has turned into a squeeze. County Council candidates are
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Ty's Take Nathaniel Carey's been putting in the work all season, and it's the kind of thing that doesn't always show up in the box score. You see it in how the coaches trust him when the game's tight, how
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 77° Showers And Thunderstorms · Tonight 66° Scattered Showers And Thunderstorms · Thursday 81° Showers And ThunderstormsSources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Tuesday's heat record is the kind of thing
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching kids you've known since grade school do something well, and this week the Houston Herald's pages are full of it. The cross country team brought home the SCA crown again
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Ty's Take Sheriff's office got itself tangled up again this week, and if you've been paying attention since 2018, you know that's not a situation that settles quick in Shannon County. The details are still sorting themselves out, but when law enforcement
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Ty's Take There's not much detail in what we know so far about whoever drove into a police officer, but that's the kind of incident that gets everyone's attention in a county this size. You don't have to live here
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Ty's Take School districts all over Montana keep circling back to the four-day week, and East Helena's latest push to gather community feedback on the idea tells you something about where we are right now. It's not some fringe experiment anymore, it'
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Ty's Take Sixth graders down at the school are learning where those cottonwoods and Douglas firs come from, how they grow, what they're worth to the country around them. That's the kind of thing that sticks with you, whether you end up running cattle