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Ty's Take We lost some good ones this week, the kind of people who showed up and did their work without needing much fanfare about it. Earl Souder, Jackie Owens, Charles Williams, Janice Bentley, and Chris Nelson are names that meant something in Howell County, whether folks knew
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Ty's Take There's something about old industrial buildings in Ozarks towns that won't stay dead. The Chymiak Mill sat quiet for years like most of them do, and now it's become a gathering place for artists and makers and people who actually
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Ty's Take Laclede County's getting its 911 system overhauled, which doesn't sound like much until you're the one dialing it at two in the morning from a gravel road out past Bennett Spring, or from your boat on the Niangua when something
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Ty's Take You've got a young man in serious condition after a motorcycle wreck, a deputy dealing with a felon and a dead dog, and deer season running lean across the county, but what's sticking with me today is that our high school kids
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Ty's Take Some weeks the scanner traffic tells you everything you need to know about what people are doing wrong. High-speed wrecks scattered across three counties, folks getting airlifted out of ditches, names showing up on the blotter for debts and warrants they thought might've
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Ty's Take Road work on Rolla and Sixth is never fun, but at least we know it's coming. The closures hit right as we're moving into the season when folks want to get out and do things, so plan ahead if you're
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Ty's Take Couple rough days around here when you string them together. A man facing charges after his truck went through trees and into a house, a wildfire that pulled our crews out near the county line, a parking lot fire that had folks running out of their
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Ty's Take Property lines and right-of-way disputes have a way of turning neighbors into adversaries out here, and this week's arrest over a county road squabble in Ava is a reminder that some arguments don't cool off once they get hot. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Twenty-three years out and we still set aside the day to remember. That's not a criticism, it's the mark of a wound that doesn't fully close, and maybe shouldn't. Phelps County sent people to those wars, buried
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Ty's Take Every year the Chamber's Wall of Honor reminds us that community doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't get built by people looking for credit. These are the ones who showed up to the boat plants when work was scarce,
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Ty's Take Thirty years is a long time to keep a technical college running in a county this size, which tells you something about what Texas County Technical College has meant to folks around here. The school's been steady work, training people for jobs that actually
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Ty's Take The Senior Resource Fair hitting town this week is the kind of thing that doesn't make noise but ought to. Most folks don't think about what comes after the paycheck stops until they're already standing at the edge of it,