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Ty's Take Black bears don't usually make the news around here until somebody gets their trash situation figured out, but we've had enough sightings lately that folks are starting to ask real questions—and that's worth paying attention to. The lake'
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Ty's Take A motorcyclist swerving to miss a deer, six school buses pulled for safety, chlorine pumps going in at water wells across the county—the kind of week where you notice the systems holding things together, and the moments they almost don't. The Rotary raised
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Ty's Take You've got to pay attention when the big development money starts filing Chapter 11 around here—it usually means somebody's backyard is about to look a lot different than they planned. Jeff Tegethoff's bankruptcy filing and his sudden exit from
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Ty's Take There's a boil order in Eldon again, which means somebody's water treatment isn't holding like it should, and that gets people's attention in a lake region where water quality touches everything from tourism to property values to whether
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Ty's Take Early Monday morning somebody's house went up in smoke and their pets didn't make it out, and by afternoon two people and a dog were being pulled from floodwaters up in Camden County—the kind of day that reminds you why we&
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Ty's Take The heat law kicks in Monday, which means if you're running a construction crew around here—and Lord knows plenty of folks are this time of year—you'd better know the rules about when your people can work and how long they
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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-
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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: