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Ty's Take Old photographs have a way of anchoring a town to what it was, which matters more in a place like Lebanon than most folks realize. These pictures, whatever they show, are reminders that this crossroads has always been about movement and making things, about people passing
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet good that doesn't make much noise around here, and it showed up this week when a church decided a woman in the congregation deserved better access to her own spiritual home. Nobody's asking for
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Ty's Take Nathaniel Carey's been putting in the work all season, and it's the kind of thing that doesn't always show up in the box score. You see it in how the coaches trust him when the game's tight, how
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Ty's Take The city released its automatic license plate reader audit this week, and for those who've wondered whether that technology is actually watching the way it feels like it is, now you've got numbers to chew on. Transparency reports like this one don&
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Ty's Take Those old photographs in today's Record take you back to when Lebanon looked different but felt the same, which is probably why people still stop by the office asking if we've got more prints stashed somewhere. You see the storefronts along Main,
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Ty's Take Lebanon's been through enough rough patches that most folks around here don't flinch easy, but a stabbing investigation puts everybody on edge regardless. The police department's doing the work they do, and the rest of us wait for the facts
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Ty's Take The future farmers learning their trade at this week's agriculture event are getting something you can't pick up from a textbook or a YouTube video, and that matters more than people realize. Around here, we've built something real on the
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Ty's Take Laclede County's 911 system is getting the attention it's been needing, and if the county commission moves forward with these upgrades, it won't be a moment too soon. Our emergency services have been running on infrastructure that's older
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Ty's Take Fall festival season is here, and the Record's question this week hits on something that matters more than it might seem at first glance. These gatherings are where a town's heartbeat shows up, where kids work the dunking booth and church ladies
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Ty's Take Every year this recognition hits different, because you're not reading about somebody's achievements in some distant place, you're looking at names you pass at the grocery store, at church, at the boat ramp. The Chamber's Wall of Honor
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Ty's Take The county's pushing ahead on 911 upgrades while folks are weighing in on everything from how they like their sports scores served up to what they think about those new license plate readers the sheriff's department is looking at. It's
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Ty's Take Laclede County's 911 system has been running on equipment that belongs in a museum for the better part of a decade, so hearing that upgrades are likely to move forward is the kind of news that doesn't grab headlines until something goes