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Ty's Take Thin week on the wires, which tells you something about January in Howell County. The blood bank's running short, the state's pushing folks to pay attention to what Washington's doing with social services, and the Department of Conservation's
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Ty's Take Money from somewhere else is flooding into the 154th District race, and if you've been watching the mailbox or your screen, you already know it. Outside groups are dropping real dollars on attack ads while locals are trying to figure out who's
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Ty's Take Roads keep our region stitched together, and when Route VV goes down for pavement work, folks around Howell County adjust like they always do. Same week you've got Mountain View taking delivery of a new skid steer for their own maintenance needs, which tells
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Ty's Take Four funerals this week, and the back to school shot clinic running Fridays down at the health department. That's the rhythm of August in Howell County, the way summer starts letting go and you remember that the calendar doesn't care much about
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Ty's Take Primary day is coming up fast, and voters are going to have their hands full sorting through candidates and those ballot measures everybody's been talking about. The Shield Maidens are asking hard questions about what some of those initiatives actually do, and meanwhile there&
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Ty's Take The power cooperative's peak alert came right as the heat settled in hard, which means West Plains and the county are looking at some tight margins on the grid over the next stretch. It's the kind of thing that doesn't
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Ty's Take Saturday turned into one of those days that reminds you why the river demands respect, and why heat this thick can scramble your judgment in ways you don't see coming until it's too late. We had a man from St. Charles drown
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Ty's Take Street work on a Tuesday morning in West Plains means timing, and the city's got that notice out there for folks who need to plan around it. But what caught my eye in this week's roundup was Ozarks Healthcare landing that regional
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Ty's Take Election season's heating up around here, and anybody paying attention can see the money's already flowing in from outside trying to shape what people think. Meanwhile, down in Willow Springs they're moving forward with practical things, fire engines and flood
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of road near Lanton that's caught more than one driver off guard, and this week added another name to that list. Meanwhile, the community's doing what it does best, the kind of work that doesn't
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Ty's Take The Howell County Sheriff's Office is hiring, which means somebody around here saw an opening and decided to take a swing at it, and that's how these things work in county government. Meanwhile, Route VV's down to one lane for
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Ty's Take Jasper Engines making TIME's list of America's best private companies is the kind of news that reminds you why this region holds its own—a homegrown operation that built something real and kept building it, right here where the work gets done.