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Ty's Take Town council meetings don't usually light up the social calendar, but when you're sitting on audit numbers for a new year and talking about whether Houston itself ought to grow, people pay attention. The financials review and that expansion discussion going on
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Ty's Take Tiger football's got that unpredictable streak that makes Friday nights worth sitting through the weather, and Springfield Catholic showed up ready to play, but what matters most is that these kids keep showing up week after week in the heat and cold, building something
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Ty's Take A fire pulled everybody's attention this week, the kind of call that brings the whole county to a standstill when the sirens start up, and there's nothing quite like seeing what our volunteer departments can do when seconds matter. In between the
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Ty's Take Labor Day Monday means the mail carrier stays home and a good chunk of Houston shuts down, which is fine, because most folks around here will be doing the same. The holiday falls different ways depending on who you are: for some it's a
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Ty's Take David Cope spent his years in Texas County the way a lot of good men do around here, showing up to work and showing up for people, and now folks are left with that particular quiet that comes when someone who was just part of the
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Ty's Take When the drought hits this hard, every bit of paperwork that gets faster matters, and the news that our farmers can now qualify quicker for federal aid without jumping through as many hoops is the kind of thing that doesn't make headlines anywhere else
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Ty's Take The Houston Educational Foundation's got their fundraiser locked in for the 29th out at the 'BARn, and if you've been around here long enough you know what that means: a chance to put some money behind the kids who'll
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Ty's Take Barbara Ann White and Mary Virginia Earp both lived long lives in Texas County, and now the community that knew them is smaller. That's the way of things in a county this size, where generations overlap and you can trace family trees like timber
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Ty's Take The FFA kids packing meals against food insecurity and the sheriff's office dealing with a fatal shooting in the same news cycle tells you something about what Texas County is right now. We've got young people stepping up to help their neighbors
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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