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Ty's Take Water's been mean to us this week—a school bus in the ditch, roads washing out, a semi upended on the highway, and swift water rescues that remind you how fast things can turn when the rain keeps coming. It happens every spring around
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Ty's Take You don't need headlines to tell you what time of year it is around the lake—the water's warming up, the docks are getting crowded, and we're about to lose somebody we didn't have to. Three drownings in
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Ty's Take When the power goes out across three counties and two separate accidents land people in the hospital on the same Monday morning, it's worth asking whether we're paying attention to the basics—road conditions after a storm, visibility, speed on wet pavement,
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Ty's Take The lake's been good to a lot of folks around here, and this week you can see it in the work—charter outfits making it easier for visitors to get out on the water, construction crews figuring out how to build on slopes that
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's going to pack the lake harder than most years, and that tow report ought to worry anybody who spends time out there—nearly 200 rescues in a season tells you people are running fuel tanks empty, running boats they don'
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Ty's Take Nearly two hundred boats towed off the lake in one season tells you something about how fast things can go wrong out there—and how many people aren't ready when they do. Between the fuel prices climbing, the weekend traffic building up, and all
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Ty's Take We've had two people in positions of trust around kids arrested in the last few days—a school resource officer and now a teacher—and that's the kind of news that lands different in a town like this where everybody knows everybody
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Ty's Take You don't often see a sitting alderman walk straight into a federal drug sting, but that's where Osage Beach finds itself this week with Bob O'Steen's arrest on cocaine distribution and weapons charges. The city moved fast with
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Ty's Take Summer around the lake brings out the worst in people sometimes—not the boater who admits he went in and took the boat with him, that's just bad luck and honesty—but the ones running illegal card games out of convenience stores, the ones
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Ty's Take One of our own—a Mizzou kid—took a bullet meant for somebody else at a concert down in Mississippi, and that's the kind of story that hits different when you know the families involved come from around here. The weekend arrest reports and
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Ty's Take The state finally got its head on straight and restored that ten million in tourism money, which matters more around here than most folks realize—it's not just about the boats and the weekend crowds, it's about the small businesses that depend
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Ty's Take We lost three good men this week—Thomas Riggins at ninety-five, Martin White at ninety, and Harry Spackman at forty-nine—and if you've been around the lake long enough, you probably knew at least one of them. That's the thing