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Ty's Take Football season opened with a loss down at Pierce City, and that stings the way a season opener always does, but the real story this week is the heat bearing down on us like a blanket pulled too tight. When the thermometer starts climbing into dangerous
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Ty's Take Saturday was a hard reminder that these county roads don't forgive mistakes, and they don't care much about speed or experience either. Two separate accidents in one day, one south of Cabool and another near Success, left people hurt and families dealing
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Ty's Take There's a particular stretch of road southwest of Licking where the deer seem to know exactly when to cross, which is to say they don't know at all. Happens every fall when the heat breaks and the animals get restless, moving between
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Ty's Take Ten years of STEM grants and a new hospitalist at the hospital means somebody around the county office and the healthcare board has been doing their homework, and doing it well. But what really jumps out this week is how seriously the schools are taking their
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Ty's Take County commissioners did what they had to do this week, holding the line on the tax rate while everybody knows the bills don't stop coming. Nobody goes into public service to be popular, and keeping the books balanced in a county this size means
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Ty's Take There's something about a Hardee's reopening that tells you more than it first seems, especially in a county seat of two thousand where a working lunch or quick dinner still matters to folks coming off a timber job or heading back out
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Ty's Take Football season around here is the closest thing we have to a statewide holiday, and the Tigers are sharpening up after what sounds like a solid offseason under the lights. You can't walk through Houston without hearing talk about who's back, who&
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Ty's Take School's back in session and the new HHS volleyball team is taking the court with fresh faces leading the way, which means we're sliding into that stretch where the social calendar starts running the town the way it always does. Before the
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Ty's Take Road accidents that end with the injured party facing charges are usually the ones that stick with a community, and this one out of Raymondville won't be any different. When the person hurt in the wreck is the one law enforcement decides to prosecute,
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Ty's Take Nothing says small-town success like coming home to work alongside the person who taught you the trade. A new veterinarian setting up shop here with their former mentor isn't just filling a business need, though Lord knows we've got cattle operations
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Ty's Take When a pharmacy starts turning people away because the prescription line won't quit, you know something upstream broke. Forbes Pharmacy in town has been slammed since Hutcheson closed their doors, and old Jim and his crew are doing what they always do, which is
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Ty's Take When the water came back safe to drink straight from the tap Wednesday, most folks probably just turned the faucet like they always do and didn't think twice about it. That's how it should be. But that boil advisory that had half