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Ty's Take When the rain comes hard and fast around here, you learn real quick who shows up. The state emergency declaration across Missouri is the official word, but what matters is that OBFD pulled an older man out of the water, that Lake Regional opened weekend express
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Ty's Take Fuel prices dropping is always good news for anybody running a boat around here, and Lord knows we need a break—but it's worth remembering that the lake's drawn all kinds over fifty-nine years, the ones looking for a weekend getaway
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Ty's Take Camdenton's data center dream died quiet, the way a lot of big promises do around here—somebody else's vision that didn't quite fit the place we already have. But while that developer was backing out of annexation agreements, real work
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Ty's Take Summer's ending and the lake's filling up with folks who've already made their minds up—either they're here to stay year-round or they're counting down to Labor Day. That split shows up in everything we&
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Ty's Take That missing person turned up safe after last night's search, and the dock girls who helped pull folks out of that storm did what lakeside people do when weather turns mean—they didn't hesitate. But you stack up a garage fire that
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Ty's Take That generator fire over in the garage is a reminder that come winter—or whenever the power flickers out around here—half the folks who pull one out of the shed have no business operating it indoors. We run these stories every few years and people
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Ty's Take Fourth of July at the lake turned into a masterclass in why you don't mess with weather and water at the same time. A storm system rolled through that had boats getting tossed like toys, a dock breaking loose with vessels still tied to
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend at the lake came in hot this year, and not just because of the fireworks. A severe storm system rolled through during the holiday rush, knocking out power to thirty thousand people and leaving behind the kind of damage that'll
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of holiday weekend that hits the lake every Fourth of July—the kind where the forecast doesn't matter much because everybody's already committed, the gas pumps are humming, and the water's going to be
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend at the lake always runs hot—this year literally, with triple digits in the forecast—but what's got people scrambling isn't the heat. Two separate fireworks contracts fell through just days before the holiday, leaving Osage Beach and
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Ty's Take Summer at the lake always brings the same mix—new roller coasters and real estate signs alongside the ambulance calls and traffic accidents that come with season. This week's pair of serious crashes on Ivy Bend and 54 reminds us that while we'
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Ty's Take Summer around the lake always brings the same tug-of-war—more tourists, more traffic, more small accidents that remind us how fast things move when the season kicks in. Between the motorcycle fatality, the Highway 54 pileup, and what sounds like it was a rough