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Ty's Take Mean Muggin' Coffee Bar sits in the middle of town doing something that costs nothing but shows up in a thousand small ways, and that's what a coffee shop in a county seat of 2,000 is supposed to do. The arrests logged
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Ty's Take Two vehicle accidents in as many days around the county is the kind of stretch that makes you think about speed and attention and whether we're all moving too fast on roads we've known our whole lives. Saturday's wreck out
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Ty's Take Texas County Memorial Hospital is putting money to work where it matters most, adding staff and equipment while county voters gear up for what looks to be another close one come November. The grants and purchases that TCMH announced this week represent the kind of steady
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Ty's Take A murder trial, a hunger report, and child abuse charges all landing in the same week tells you something about the weight that sits on a county seat, even one as small and tight as ours. Houston doesn't get the crime coverage that bigger
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Ty's Take The commission's closed-door talk about a legal matter is the kind of thing that gets people wondering what they're not hearing, and fair enough. In a county seat this size, most folks figure things out eventually anyway, so whatever's
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Ty's Take Hutcheson Pharmacy closing its doors next month is the kind of loss that hits different in a town of 2,000, where Mr. Hutcheson wasn't just filling prescriptions but part of the fabric of Main Street for decades. These changes creep up on you
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Ty's Take A boy in a buggy hit by a car in Summersville, a woman in serious condition after a two-vehicle crash up near Plato, and the heat bearing down on all of us. That's the week so far, and it reminds you that summer
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Ty's Take Wonder City's new play space opening up here in Houston is the kind of thing that catches you off guard until you realize how much we needed it. Kids running around a place built just for them, exercising their imaginations instead of their thumbs,
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Ty's Take Phyllis Diane Hubbard lived the kind of life that doesn't make headlines until it ends, and even then the real story isn't in the dates but in the years between them. She was woven into this county the way the Big Piney
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Ty's Take Late Friday night the law caught up with a Licking man on seven different counts, which around here means the circuit court docket just got heavier and somebody's family got a whole lot smaller for a while. The details are still coming through, but
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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