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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs past 110, you start seeing the real backbone of this county—the folks who have to keep working anyway. Cattle don't stop needing water because it's dangerous out there, and neither do the crews at the stockyards
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Ty's Take Two motorcycle wrecks and a serious car accident all in the same stretch of Howell County—that's the kind of week that reminds you why the ambulance crews around here earn every penny. We've got good people in the EMS service, and
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Ty's Take Seems like a rough stretch on our roads and in our vehicles—two accidents in as many days, a side-by-side rollover that caught three people, and another wreck out toward Willow Springs with four more hurt. You don't need me to tell
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Ty's Take When a neighboring county's audit comes back stamped "poor" because of illegal debt and misconduct in the sheriff's office, it's a reminder that the machinery of local government only runs clean when people are paying attention—and when
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Ty's Take Civic center's hosting a debate Wednesday night, and if you've got questions worth asking, the organizers want to hear them—that's the kind of thing that works best when it's not just the usual suspects doing the talking.
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Ty's Take Shannon County's sheriff is talking about a motor vehicle theft problem that's worth paying attention to—the kind of crime that hits harder out here than it might sound, because when somebody lifts your truck or your equipment, you're not
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Ty's Take You see a lot in a week like this—the university board thinking five years ahead, folks signing up for weather radios because they've learned what flash water can do, a kid from Willow Springs making VP at Coca-Cola, families gathering at reunions,
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Ty's Take Slow Tuesday in the Ozarks, the kind of day that reminds you how this region works—we lose good people, we mourn them, and life keeps moving forward. The obits in this week's paper read like a roster of names you'd see
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Ty's Take Sunday afternoon brought two separate wrecks to our roads within hours of each other—one near Norwood, another involving a local teenager—and if that stretch of pavement didn't already have your attention, it should now. We've had enough close calls on
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Ty's Take Three people dead on our roads in recent weeks, a murder charge upgraded to first degree down in Carter County, and a death at South Central—the kind of stretch that reminds you why the sheriff's office logged 339 calls in Izard County alone
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Ty's Take The state's flood warnings hit different when you live in hill country—water moves fast through these hollows, and Governor Kehoe's emergency declaration means someone upstream from here already got hurt by what's coming down. Worth remembering that while West
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Ty's Take Three traffic fatalities in one week across our corner of the Ozarks is the kind of stretch that settles over a community like fog you can't quite shake. You see the names and the routes—Hartville, Wright County, Peace Valley—and you know these