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Ty's Take You've got a young man in serious condition after a motorcycle wreck, a deputy dealing with a felon and a dead dog, and deer season running lean across the county, but what's sticking with me today is that our high school kids
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Ty's Take Couple rough days around here when you string them together. A man facing charges after his truck went through trees and into a house, a wildfire that pulled our crews out near the county line, a parking lot fire that had folks running out of their
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Ty's Take Thirty years is a long time to keep a technical college running in a county this size, which tells you something about what Texas County Technical College has meant to folks around here. The school's been steady work, training people for jobs that actually
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Ty's Take The National Weather Service folks don't use the word drought lightly, and when they're saying it about Texas County right now, that's worth paying attention. We've had dry stretches before, plenty of them, but what makes this one
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Ty's Take County government's been busy this week, which might explain why somebody's smoke detector got a workout at the administrative building. Between appointing township folks, watching sales tax numbers slip a notch in both Houston and Cabool, and sorting out what appears to
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Ty's Take A bad stretch of road claimed another life Tuesday night when a motorcyclist didn't make it home on Route 106, the kind of accident that settles heavy in a county where everybody knows somebody. Same night, firefighters were out fighting brush on the other
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Ty's Take When news breaks hard and fast in a county this size, you see what people are made of. We've got a man from Licking facing serious charges that nobody wants to think too hard about, a Houston resident who crossed a line with threats
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Ty's Take Police work around here this week looks like what it usually does: somebody's property walked off, traffic enforcement kept the highways safer than they'd otherwise be, and one situation escalated to where arrests had to happen. None of it surprises anybody who&
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Ty's Take Homecoming week's got the whole town turned around in that good way it does every fall, with the parade shaping up and the Tigers riding high after another win down at Salem. You can feel it in the way folks linger at the coffee
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Ty's Take A 19-year-old on a motorcycle, gone in what probably felt like a single moment on Saturday. That's the kind of news that moves through a county this size like a chill you can't shake off, the kind that reminds every
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Ty's Take Extreme drought moving across Texas County hits different when you're running cattle on pasture and your hay pile is already smaller than last year. The fire department stepping up to help farmers with prevention work shows how these volunteer operations understand what's
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Ty's Take A bus driver who kept her head when a child's airway closed up during a run, a county still sorting through what work looks like in 2025, and a traveling memorial that reminds us why ordinary people matter when everything hangs in the balance.