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Ty's Take Two separate reminders this week that the roads and trails around Texas County don't forgive carelessness. A man ended up in Springfield hospital after an ATV accident north of Willow Springs, the kind of thing that happens when you're moving fast through
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Ty's Take School enrollments dipping a bit here and there across the county is the kind of trend that doesn't make anybody's blood boil on first read, but anybody who's been around long enough knows what it means. Young families moving out
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of grace that shows up when a place takes care of its own, and we saw plenty of it this week around Texas County. A nurse who's spent four decades at Texas County Memorial Hospital watching over her
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Ty's Take There's something about fall in Texas County that brings out the competitive fire, and this week our cross country and volleyball teams showed up at Mountain Grove with something to prove. High school sports have always been the real calendar around here, the thing
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Ty's Take James Hartman worked this county for a long time, and when somebody like that passes, it leaves a mark on the place. Meanwhile, the hospital's landing nearly six hundred thousand in rural health dollars, the council's wrestling with what it costs to
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Ty's Take When the Tigers took the field against Thayer last Friday night, they came ready to play but couldn't seem to find an answer for the one thing that breaks games open in September football: the big play. That's the kind of night
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Ty's Take Saturday turned out to be one of those days when the state patrol had their hands full across the county. A Cabool woman found herself in custody after a traffic stop, while over in Phelps County a Houston man walked away from a two-vehicle wreck
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Ty's Take It's a thin news day out of the Sheriff's Office and State Patrol, the kind that reminds you how quickly things can go wrong for people around here. A man facing a failure to register charge, a teenager in Seymour laid up
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Ty's Take A rough week around here starts with a man dead on the road and a chase that ended against a building downtown, which tells you something about the pressure that builds up in a county this size when the heat stays on and the rain won&
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Ty's Take Most days in a county this size you get the usual run of it, weather and school board meetings and somebody's prize heifer. Then a Wednesday comes along and the patrol pulls two kids out of the dirt south of Licking, and up in
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Ty's Take Road work on Highway K is going to slow some folks down over the next stretch, but anybody who's driven these county roads knows the pavement out here takes a beating from the weather and the weight of cattle trucks heading to market. The
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Ty's Take Road work and traffic wrecks are part of fall around here, but when you've got Kimble Road shut down for repairs and somebody getting hurt out on 63 in the same week, it reminds you to ease up on the gas and pay attention