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Ty's Take When the water came back safe to drink straight from the tap Wednesday, most folks probably just turned the faucet like they always do and didn't think twice about it. That's how it should be. But that boil advisory that had half
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Ty's Take When you lose someone from the community, you're losing more than a name in the paper. Rhonda Sanders, Nelva Sue McIlwain, and Barbara Ann Vincent were woven into the fabric of this place the way most of us are, through decades of showing up,
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Ty's Take An author from around here just got a mushroom guide into national print, which tells you something about what happens when you know your ground. Phelps County sits on some of the best fungal real estate in Missouri, all those shaded hollows and rot logs south
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Ty's Take When a week's worth of headlines lands on domestic violence, narcotics, and a fresh business trying to build trust in a small market, you're looking at a county working through real problems. The felony charge here in Houston and the bust over
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Ty's Take There's a pattern running through this week's docket that ought to worry anybody paying attention to what's happening around here. Between the sexual misconduct cases, the repeat offender drawing seven years, and a missing teenager flagged as endangered, Howell County&
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Ty's Take Rolla's Veterans Memorial Park got two new additions this week, which is the kind of thing that happens quietly in a town like ours until you stop and think about who those monuments are for. Every name matters in a county this size, especially
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Ty's Take Lebanon's got a new name on the golf course marquee, and it's the kind of small decision that says something about a town willing to refresh what's familiar. Whether you're sending your kid off to Missouri State or
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Ty's Take The $8 million bond question sitting on the November ballot is the kind of decision that doesn't get easier the longer a town waits. Houston's infrastructure needs are real enough that the city council felt compelled to move forward, and you can&
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, but not so long that folks around here have forgotten what happened to Tory Sanders or the questions that hung over this county like fog on the Current. Three people facing murder charges now means somebody
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Ty's Take The law enforcement facility getting a fresh look from Elevatus Architects is overdue, and anybody who's spent time at the current building knows it. But while the designers are drawing up needs and plans, West Plains is also working on the human side of
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Ty's Take S&T's Coterie is out doing what they do best this fall, which is reminding the rest of us that the engineering school doesn't live in a bubble up on the hill. These women have been threading that needle for years,