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Ty's Take The state's flood warnings hit different when you live in hill country—water moves fast through these hollows, and Governor Kehoe's emergency declaration means someone upstream from here already got hurt by what's coming down. Worth remembering that while West
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Ty's Take The prairies that used to cover chunks of this county before anybody planted anything didn't disappear—they've been waiting. A partnership focused on sustainable land use is doing the work to find what's left of those native grasslands around Rolla
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Ty's Take You don't rebuild a town by keeping everything the way it's always been, and Lebanon's moving on that idea this week—new turf on the ballfields so kids aren't playing in the dust, a fresh look at the
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Ty's Take When a county of our size gets its justice center wired up with Starlink backup internet, it's worth noticing—not because satellite internet is news anywhere else, but because out here it means our dispatch center, our records, our whole ability to respond doesn&
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time for a community to hold its breath, and Shannon County's finally exhaling now that three people face murder charges in the Tory Sanders case. What takes nearly a decade to prosecute tells you something about how tangled this
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Ty's Take Three traffic fatalities in one week across our corner of the Ozarks is the kind of stretch that settles over a community like fog you can't quite shake. You see the names and the routes—Hartville, Wright County, Peace Valley—and you know these
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Ty's Take Every week in a county like ours somebody wraps a vehicle around a tree or a guardrail on one of these state routes, and every week we run the names and the details because that's what happened and people need to know. But what
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Ty's Take When a week's worth of headlines sits somewhere between a centennial school celebration and charges that belong in a courtroom, you're looking at the real texture of a small county—the part nobody puts on the chamber brochure. Lincoln School honoring its
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Ty's Take The library's looking for mentors to help kids with reading, and that's the kind of quiet work that keeps a county like ours from sliding backward—the kind nobody sees until years later when a kid who couldn't crack a
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Ty's Take You look at a day like this in Howell County and you're seeing the bones of what keeps a place like West Plains alive—not just the hospital upgrades and the new clinics, though that matters when you're forty minutes from anywhere