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Ty's Take When a juvenile ends up in custody on a murder charge in Reynolds County, the ripples move fast through these small towns, and everybody knows somebody who knows somebody involved. The details will come out in time—they always do—but what strikes you first is
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Ty's Take Two million in school funding and a new dance studio opening up—that's the kind of week that reminds you Houston's still finding ways to grow, even when the county's scattered across all those timber roads and cattle pastures. The
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Ty's Take You don't have to go far south of town to find what the Ozarks looked like before we put our stamp on it—those remnant prairies tucked into the forest are living reminders, the kind of thing our grandparents would've walked past
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Ty's Take There's something about spring in a crossroads town—everybody's looking ahead at the same time, wondering what gets fixed and what gets left behind. Lebanon's got a handful of those decisions stacked up right now: whether the ballfields get a
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Ty's Take School budgets tightening, healthcare clinics moving, fraud scammers working the phones—it's the kind of week that reminds you why the small-town institutions matter. West Plains isn't big enough to absorb these shifts quietly. When enrollment slides and revenue follows, a
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still to live in a county where the people sworn to keep the peace end up being the ones you're wondering about. The charges coming down now against former law enforcement in
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Ty's Take Looks like somebody around here finally decided to take housing seriously. West Plains pushing through that resolution to stimulate new projects, paired with concrete moves—a ready-mix plant headed to Willow Springs, infrastructure money flowing in for weather radar and water crossings—suggests the county&
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Ty's Take School budgets don't make headlines unless they have to, and West Plains' board meeting this week hit that moment—enrollment's sliding, revenue's tightening, and there's no magic money waiting at the end of the fiscal year. It&
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and this county knows something about that kind of waiting. The charges that came down this week in the Tory Sanders case—three people now facing murder counts, former lawmen facing their own reckoning—mark the
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Ty's Take Holiday weekends always shake loose the things a town needs to handle—sanitation route changes, water-level watches down in Mountain View, the city reminders that keep things running—but what catches you this week is that Dairy Queen putting in a 60-foot Ferris wheel
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Ty's Take The Fourth falls on a Wednesday this year, which means City Hall's locked up and the real celebrating happens when the work week ends—Skyfire on Friday night, the SAR/DAR fireworks coming Monday, and somewhere in between a whole lot of folks taking
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Ty's Take Drug sweeps across three counties in one week, vehicle wrecks sending kids to the hospital in Springfield, and the usual run of summer trouble—this is the stretch we hit every July, when heat and idle time seem to pull at people the wrong way. The