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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
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Ty's Take The dock fire that took four boats in one night wasn't an accident—authorities confirmed it was arson—and now we've got a Camdenton man facing charges that could cost him years and the lake community a real reckoning about who we
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Ty's Take Rough week on the water and the roads around here, the kind that reminds you why the volunteer fire department runs their boats out at all hours and why the sheriff's office doesn't sleep much come summer. We've had dock
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Ty's Take We've had three accidents in two days across the county—a teenager gone in Laclede, serious injuries on the lake at dawn, another pair hurt down in Miller—and the heat advisory isn't doing anybody any favors when tempers run short and