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Ty's Take Two people dead on the roads this weekend, another from whatever was happening in that house in Squires, and a young man from Mountain View gone Saturday night—that's the kind of stretch that reminds you how fast things can turn out here, how
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Ty's Take The ACC numbers floating around this week—those $47 million payouts to member schools—remind you why a place like West Plains has to think hard about its own economy and what keeps the lights on. We're not in that conference, and we'
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still to carry the weight of what happened to Tory Sanders through a community this size. Three people charged now, and former law enforcement facing their own reckoning—that's the kind of
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Ty's Take You see a city council willing to ask voters to fund themselves a little better, a nonprofit landing real money to do the work that keeps this county stitched together, and somewhere in the same news cycle, a locked-out workforce at Leonardo DRS heading into week
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Ty's Take There's a hum you get used to in a place like this—the sound of things running mostly right, week after week, until they don't. Today's arrest reports and detention rosters tell you that hum's been interrupted more
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Ty's Take There's a lawsuit working its way through the courts just south of here that cuts right to something this region's been wrestling with for generations—who belongs, who gets to stay, and what happens when money and property rights collide with the
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent more than four decades writing the stories of this county—the weddings and wrecks, the school board fights, the way people held on through hard times—and if you spent any real time reading the Quill, you knew her voice. She had that
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent decades telling the stories of these hills—first as a reporter chasing the news, then as a voice on the radio bringing Ozark voices into living rooms across the region. She died this week at 82, and with her goes a particular kind
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Ty's Take You notice the traffic alerts stacking up in the news feed, the crashes coming in from all corners of the county and just across the line into Arkansas—Saturday, Sunday, Friday, all of it. Road conditions don't change that fast; what changes is us,
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Ty's Take Eight hundred people showing up to a Howell County Extension meeting says something worth paying attention to—that's not a crowd chasing novelty, that's neighbors who still believe the information matters. The Farm & Home Show coming up in two weeks will
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in that Walmart-Amazon race to speed up deliveries out here—because the real winner isn't going to be whichever company cuts a few days off shipping times, it's going to be whoever figures out that rural
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, longer still when the people supposed to be looking for them end up in the dock themselves. The charges coming down now against three people in the Tory Sanders case and the ongoing reckoning with former