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Ty's Take Summer's already halfway gone and we haven't even hit the real heat yet, which means August's coming fast—and with it, the Duck Drop and all the rest of it. The lake's got a way of filling up
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend at the lake drew the usual mix—families grilling on their docks, boats lined up at the fuel pumps, the kind of weather that reminds people why they moved here or visit every year. But it also brought the kind of behavior that
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend delivered what we always hope for—blue skies, happy boats, and cash registers ringing from one end of the lake to the other—but it also reminded us why this place demands respect. A stalled boat with ninety gallons still aboard, a sudden
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of recklessness that shows up when young people think the lake is theirs alone—and this weekend we got a reminder that it comes in more flavors than just bad judgment behind the wheel of a boat. An 18-year-old pepper-spraying
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Ty's Take A black bear nosing through a Domino's dumpster and a guy pulling a mushroom the size of a dinner plate out of the woods—that's the Lake this week in a nutshell, equal parts tourism brochure and real life happening in the
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Ty's Take Five people hurt when a boat clips a submerged log, a restaurant gutted by fire overnight, and another reminder that the lake we love can turn on us fast—that's this week around the water. The good news is buried in here too, though:
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's shaping up to be what it always is around here—boats in the water and wallets getting lighter at the pump. SuperSplash opens this weekend, which means the families with younger kids will have somewhere to point their cash besides the
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's looking like a gift—sunshine instead of the rain they were calling for, which means the lake's about to get crowded in the best way possible. But here's the thing: before you fire up the boat and
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Ty's Take Two stories broke this week that tell you something about how a lake town like this actually works—the kind of news that doesn't make the state wires but sits heavy in people's minds anyway. A local man facing eight felonies for
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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,