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Ty's Take Kids Safety Day out at the fairgrounds is the kind of thing that doesn't make the news until something goes wrong—and when it does, folks wish they'd paid closer attention. The county runs these events because experience teaches that a child
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Ty's Take Lebanon's ball diamonds have been hard-packed clay and grass for a generation, the kind of fields where kids learn to slide and parents learn patience on bleacher seats. The park board's talk about artificial turf is the kind of practical decision
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Ty's Take A six-vehicle wreck on a Friday night is the kind of call that reminds you how fast things can turn bad on our roads, and how the next few hours in a hospital waiting room can change a family's whole year. The woman
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and this county's had to wait longer than most. Three people charged now in the Tory Sanders case, and charges coming down against former law enforcement too—which tells you something about what investigators
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Ty's Take When a neighboring county's audit comes back stamped "poor" because of illegal debt and misconduct in the sheriff's office, it's a reminder that the machinery of local government only runs clean when people are paying attention—and when
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Ty's Take The Phelps County Democrats held their stump picnic last weekend, which means somewhere around here a handful of people sat under trees eating potato salad while a few candidates made their case for the November ballot. It's the kind of event that doesn'
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Ty's Take Slow week in the big scheme of things, but the pages tell you what's really going on around here—a man running fences down in Licking, another fellow light-fingered with someone else's electric motorcycle, a couple folks who shouldn't
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Ty's Take Civic center's hosting a debate Wednesday night, and if you've got questions worth asking, the organizers want to hear them—that's the kind of thing that works best when it's not just the usual suspects doing the talking.
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Ty's Take The Fort Wyman stone showing up at the historical society is one of those moments that sneaks up quiet-like, but it matters more than you'd think. Most folks driving through Rolla don't know there was a fort here at all—a
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Ty's Take A barbershop opening in a county seat of 2,000 doesn't sound like much until you remember that a barbershop is where men still gather, still talk, still belong to something. EK Barbershop is a Houston native coming home with capital and conviction, which
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Ty's Take Shannon County's sheriff is talking about a motor vehicle theft problem that's worth paying attention to—the kind of crime that hits harder out here than it might sound, because when somebody lifts your truck or your equipment, you're not
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Ty's Take Lebanon's getting a taste of that old Route 66 magic this week with a Hollywood premiere coming to town. A film built around Laclede County memories—the kind of stories that don't usually get told outside the county line—is bringing some