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Ty's Take There's something honest about a small town buying a new fire truck. It's not glamorous—nobody runs it as their lead story in the big papers—but it means the city council looked at the numbers, understood what they had was aging
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Ty's Take Lebanon's city council did right by the cemetery this week, locking in long-term support for a place that matters more than most people think until they need it. A small town's graveyard is its memory made literal—the names go back
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Ty's Take Lebanon's ball diamonds have been hard-packed clay and grass for a generation, the kind of fields where kids learn to slide and parents learn patience on bleacher seats. The park board's talk about artificial turf is the kind of practical decision
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Ty's Take Lebanon's getting a taste of that old Route 66 magic this week with a Hollywood premiere coming to town. A film built around Laclede County memories—the kind of stories that don't usually get told outside the county line—is bringing some
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Ty's Take Lebanon's having one of those weeks where you can see the town working on itself—the school board locked in a budget that includes expansion of the Early Childhood Center, which means somebody's thinking about the next generation staying put here instead
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Ty's Take You don't rebuild a town by keeping everything the way it's always been, and Lebanon's moving on that idea this week—new turf on the ballfields so kids aren't playing in the dust, a fresh look at the
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Ty's Take There's something about a Hollywood crew finding their way to Laclede County that makes you stop and think about what we've got here that the rest of the world wants to see. They're not coming for the interstate or the
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Ty's Take There's something about spring in a crossroads town—everybody's looking ahead at the same time, wondering what gets fixed and what gets left behind. Lebanon's got a handful of those decisions stacked up right now: whether the ballfields get a