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Ty's Take Three hundred West Plains High School graduates walked across that stage Friday night, and somewhere in that crowd were kids whose parents sat in those same seats twenty, thirty years ago—kids who'll stay here, kids who'll leave and come back, kids
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Ty's Take Forty-five thousand birds during spring season tells you the turkey hunting's been good around here, which means come fall the woods'll be thinner and the freezers fuller—that's how this country works, season to season, and it's honest
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Ty's Take Megan Grant hit her 37th home run of the season this week, tying the Division I record, and if you're wondering why that matters to a town like West Plains, it's because she grew up right here—Zizzers through and through, the
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Ty's Take There's a quiet story buried in this week's smaller notices—the kind that doesn't make anybody's evening news but says something true about a town. Thayer's trap-neuter-return program for strays is working, which means somebody sat
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Ty's Take When Hannah Harper walked back into West Plains last week, three thousand people showed up to say welcome home—and that's the kind of thing that matters more than it might look like from the outside. This is a town that roots for its
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Ty's Take You see two tractor accidents in a week's worth of headlines from our corner of the country and you start wondering what we're missing—not the wrecks themselves, but the machinery that's been running since before daylight, the long hours
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still when the people who were supposed to be finding them end up in the dock themselves. Three arrests now in the Tory Sanders case, and charges piling up against former law enforcement—the
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Ty's Take When a case that's been sitting in the legal system finally moves to trial, it tends to bring things into sharp focus—the waiting's over, the charges are real, and a community that's been living with the uncertainty gets to
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Ty's Take Willow Springs picked up 66 new graduates Friday, which means sixty-some families around here are doing what families do—figuring out what comes next while trying not to let the kids see them getting misty about it. Same week, Ozarks Healthcare opens a clinic right there
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Ty's Take Hannah Harper making it to the American Idol finale is the kind of thing that reminds you why small towns matter—somebody's kid from around here gets on that national stage, and the whole region leans in to watch. You don't have
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Ty's Take You don't have to look far around Howell County to see what college athletics has become—a money game where tennis rackets get shelved so somebody else can chase a scholarship check. Missouri State-West Plains sits in a town that understands hard choices, where
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Ty's Take Two things worth noting on a Thursday evening in Howell County: the sheriff's office collected enough prescription bottles and old medications at last week's drug take-back to keep some real trouble off the streets, and Children's Behavioral Services just raised