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Ty's Take Somebody pulled out the old photo albums this week, and that's when you remember what this town looked like before the interstates changed everything. Route 66 ran straight through here once, and Lebanon was the kind of place where you stopped because you had
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Ty's Take The Lebanon school board's decision to run a practice election before the real vote in April makes sense when you think about it, especially with new equipment and procedures that need the kinks worked out before they count. There's no margin for
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to a week where the obits stack up and the wrecks pile in, where a house fire takes lives and young people don't make it home. You see it in the church parking lots, in the way folks
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Ty's Take The city council finally got around to publishing what those automatic license plate readers have been doing since the department started using them, and the numbers tell you something worth knowing. A little over 5,000 plates scanned in the audit period, with maybe a handful
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Ty's Take Old photographs have a way of anchoring a town to what it was, which matters more in a place like Lebanon than most folks realize. These pictures, whatever they show, are reminders that this crossroads has always been about movement and making things, about people passing
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet good that doesn't make much noise around here, and it showed up this week when a church decided a woman in the congregation deserved better access to her own spiritual home. Nobody's asking for
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Ty's Take Nathaniel Carey's been putting in the work all season, and it's the kind of thing that doesn't always show up in the box score. You see it in how the coaches trust him when the game's tight, how
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Ty's Take The city released its automatic license plate reader audit this week, and for those who've wondered whether that technology is actually watching the way it feels like it is, now you've got numbers to chew on. Transparency reports like this one don&
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Ty's Take Those old photographs in today's Record take you back to when Lebanon looked different but felt the same, which is probably why people still stop by the office asking if we've got more prints stashed somewhere. You see the storefronts along Main,
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Ty's Take Lebanon's been through enough rough patches that most folks around here don't flinch easy, but a stabbing investigation puts everybody on edge regardless. The police department's doing the work they do, and the rest of us wait for the facts
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Ty's Take The future farmers learning their trade at this week's agriculture event are getting something you can't pick up from a textbook or a YouTube video, and that matters more than people realize. Around here, we've built something real on the
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Ty's Take Laclede County's 911 system is getting the attention it's been needing, and if the county commission moves forward with these upgrades, it won't be a moment too soon. Our emergency services have been running on infrastructure that's older