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Ty's Take Slow week in the big scheme of things, but the pages tell you what's really going on around here—a man running fences down in Licking, another fellow light-fingered with someone else's electric motorcycle, a couple folks who shouldn't have
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Ty's Take A barbershop opening in a county seat of 2,000 doesn't sound like much until you remember that a barbershop is where men still gather, still talk, still belong to something. EK Barbershop is a Houston native coming home with capital and conviction, which
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Ty's Take You don't have to look far in a county this size to understand how the small things and the serious things run parallel—the school board working through the particulars of a new scoreboard while federal cases are being decided in the courtroom down
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Ty's Take There's always been a thin line in cattle country between a man's livelihood and the temptation that comes with hard times, and this week we saw both sides of it play out in Texas County—one fellow heading to prison for taking
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Ty's Take There's not much gentle about what shows up in a county paper some weeks—a child abuse indictment, a DWI, an arrest in Plato, a couple of folks hurt when a deer stepped into the road at the wrong moment. But then you flip
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Ty's Take Two pieces of news came across the desk this week that remind you why this county's got state troopers, sheriff's deputies, and good people willing to go out looking when somebody doesn't come home. The missing man got found—that&
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Ty's Take Two search-and-rescue stories in one week remind you that in country this rural and this wet, things can turn serious fast—a car slides off B, a child wanders onto Boiling Springs Road, and suddenly half the county's looking. The good news is we&
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Ty's Take When a county of our size gets its justice center wired up with Starlink backup internet, it's worth noticing—not because satellite internet is news anywhere else, but because out here it means our dispatch center, our records, our whole ability to respond doesn&
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Ty's Take Every week in a county like ours somebody wraps a vehicle around a tree or a guardrail on one of these state routes, and every week we run the names and the details because that's what happened and people need to know. But what
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Ty's Take The library's looking for mentors to help kids with reading, and that's the kind of quiet work that keeps a county like ours from sliding backward—the kind nobody sees until years later when a kid who couldn't crack a
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Ty's Take Downtown Houston's been talking about needing work for longer than most folks care to remember, so the council moving forward on improvements is the kind of news that actually matters in a town this size—not flashy, but the kind of deliberate step that
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Ty's Take Three of our county's veterinarians are heading out on an Honor Flight, and that's worth noting in a place where we still understand what it means when somebody steps up to serve. You don't have to look far in Texas