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Ty's Take Music doesn't ask much of a town—just a room and people willing to listen—but it does something to a place that nothing else quite manages. When somebody like Baum shows up at The Rolla Mission, it's not just a concert
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Ty's Take There's something about a Hollywood crew finding their way to Laclede County that makes you stop and think about what we've got here that the rest of the world wants to see. They're not coming for the interstate or the
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Ty's Take Downtown Houston's been talking about needing work for longer than most folks care to remember, so the council moving forward on improvements is the kind of news that actually matters in a town this size—not flashy, but the kind of deliberate step that
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Ty's Take The holiday weekend toll reads like a ledger nobody wants to keep—nine dead on the highways, three in the water, two teenagers hurt Sunday night, a woman thrown from a UTV, a man pulled from the Current River. The numbers stack up faster than we
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a small Ozarks county pushing the smooth chanterelle as Missouri's official state mushroom—a fungus that doesn't announce itself, grows quiet and persistent in the right conditions, and shows up in your kitchen if you know
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Ty's Take Three of our county's veterinarians are heading out on an Honor Flight, and that's worth noting in a place where we still understand what it means when somebody steps up to serve. You don't have to look far in Texas
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Ty's Take County law enforcement across the region had a couple rough days this week—drug busts down in Douglas and a shooting situation over in Carter that ended with somebody in custody. These aren't the kind of headlines that surprise anybody who works in a
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Ty's Take When the state police roll up with an arrest on a shooting case, it settles something in a county this size—at least for now. Troop G covers a lot of ground down here, and they don't move fast unless they've got
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Ty's Take The power company's giving Willow Springs fair warning about Tuesday's outage, which is the civilized way to handle it—beats finding out when the well pump quits and the coffeepot goes cold. Meanwhile, if you've been holding out hope for
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July parade committee's already thinking eight months ahead, which either means they learned their lesson from last year's traffic snarl or they're just optimistic the way small-town folks tend to be when summer's still
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Ty's Take The Fourth comes early to Houston this year, which means the Grand around the square fills up before lunch and stays that way through the fireworks—that's just how it works when you've got a county the size of Rhode Island and
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Ty's Take Independence Day's coming in hot, and you can already feel the county shifting into that celebratory gear—the Optimist Club's duck race, Ha Ha Tonka out at Whetstone Boys Ranch, the usual backyard cookouts and fireworks that'll light up the