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Ty's Take When a week's worth of headlines sits somewhere between a centennial school celebration and charges that belong in a courtroom, you're looking at the real texture of a small county—the part nobody puts on the chamber brochure. Lincoln School honoring its
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Ty's Take You look at a day like this in Howell County and you're seeing the bones of what keeps a place like West Plains alive—not just the hospital upgrades and the new clinics, though that matters when you're forty minutes from anywhere
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Ty's Take The holiday weekend toll reads like a ledger nobody wants to keep—nine dead on the highways, three in the water, two teenagers hurt Sunday night, a woman thrown from a UTV, a man pulled from the Current River. The numbers stack up faster than we
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Ty's Take County law enforcement across the region had a couple rough days this week—drug busts down in Douglas and a shooting situation over in Carter that ended with somebody in custody. These aren't the kind of headlines that surprise anybody who works in a
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Ty's Take The power company's giving Willow Springs fair warning about Tuesday's outage, which is the civilized way to handle it—beats finding out when the well pump quits and the coffeepot goes cold. Meanwhile, if you've been holding out hope for
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Ty's Take Independence Day's coming in hot, and you can already feel the county shifting into that celebratory gear—the Optimist Club's duck race, Ha Ha Tonka out at Whetstone Boys Ranch, the usual backyard cookouts and fireworks that'll light up the
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Ty's Take School budgets tightening, healthcare clinics moving, fraud scammers working the phones—it's the kind of week that reminds you why the small-town institutions matter. West Plains isn't big enough to absorb these shifts quietly. When enrollment slides and revenue follows, a
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Ty's Take Looks like somebody around here finally decided to take housing seriously. West Plains pushing through that resolution to stimulate new projects, paired with concrete moves—a ready-mix plant headed to Willow Springs, infrastructure money flowing in for weather radar and water crossings—suggests the county&
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Ty's Take School budgets don't make headlines unless they have to, and West Plains' board meeting this week hit that moment—enrollment's sliding, revenue's tightening, and there's no magic money waiting at the end of the fiscal year. It&
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Ty's Take Holiday weekends always shake loose the things a town needs to handle—sanitation route changes, water-level watches down in Mountain View, the city reminders that keep things running—but what catches you this week is that Dairy Queen putting in a 60-foot Ferris wheel
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Ty's Take The Fourth falls on a Wednesday this year, which means City Hall's locked up and the real celebrating happens when the work week ends—Skyfire on Friday night, the SAR/DAR fireworks coming Monday, and somewhere in between a whole lot of folks taking
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Ty's Take Drug sweeps across three counties in one week, vehicle wrecks sending kids to the hospital in Springfield, and the usual run of summer trouble—this is the stretch we hit every July, when heat and idle time seem to pull at people the wrong way. The