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Ty's Take We lost three good women this week, and that's the kind of loss that hits different in a county this size. Bayle Herrin, Norma West, and Sharlene Read weren't strangers to any of us, the way things work out here. Meanwhile, the
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Ty's Take Most weeks you can read the Herald and see exactly where this county is headed, and this week it's in two places at once. There's the $38 million riding into the tech hub that includes us, the kind of investment that makes
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Ty's Take When a rural hospital starts drawing recognition for doing maternal care right, that's worth noting in a county where the nearest alternatives mean a drive. Texas County Memorial earned that recognition because somebody there decided that delivering babies in your own community, with your
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Ty's Take When your fire department and emergency crews run a drill and find out what works and what doesn't before the real thing happens, that's the kind of Sunday afternoon that pays dividends on a Wednesday. Texas County's volunteer responders did
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Ty's Take Couple of our neighbors didn't make it to see August roll around, and Jack Salisbury and Tammy Branstetter leave holes that won't fill quick in a county this size. But there's also the small bright spot that the dental clinic&
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Ty's Take A six-vehicle wreck on a Friday night is the kind of call that reminds you how fast things can turn bad on our roads, and how the next few hours in a hospital waiting room can change a family's whole year. The woman
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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
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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