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Ty's Take The museum funding cut stings because it always does—we trim the things that make a place worth living in, then wonder why our kids leave. But there's something worth watching in how the county's threading this needle: they're not
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Ty's Take The cops and courts log this week shows the usual scatter—nothing that shakes the county—but the real news is that the Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo is back and promising an unforgettable weekend. After the years we've all had, that kind of
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Ty's Take There's something worth paying attention to in that Yellowstone County zoning hearing coming up—a mental health facility proposed near Laurel, which means the county's wrestling with how to serve people who need help while keeping neighbors comfortable with the answer. That&
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Ty's Take The fly-in bringing pilots and car restorers to town this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people choose to stay in places like this—or come back to them. You get ranchers' kids standing next to vintage Corvettes, small-town
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Ty's Take The trial starting today at Canyon Creek Memory Care cuts to something that haunts every family in eastern Montana—the question of who's watching over our elderly when we can't be there ourselves. Nursing homes and care facilities are supposed to be
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Ty's Take You've got a city trying to figure out what it wants to be—a regional sports destination with money and infrastructure to match, or a place where teachers are leaving because the work's gotten dangerous and the pay won't follow
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Ty's Take Death notices in a small city read like a map of who held things together—teachers, nurses, shop owners, the kind of people you'd see at MetraPark or standing in line at the courthouse. The Heart & Sole run on Father's Day
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small city honors its own that says more than any mission statement ever could. Today we're reading about smokejumpers getting their final jump from a vintage plane, neighbors we've lost, a young person from
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this valley moves when somebody asks hard questions about where food actually comes from. The Pioneer's piece on local markets and food security isn't abstract—it's about whether a rancher's
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Ty's Take The news out of Washington on the Forest Service budget cuts hits different when you're sitting in a town that exists because of what grows on those mountains—timber, water, recreation, all of it tied to how the feds manage what's up
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Ty's Take The governor's been out selling Montana coal to Korea while data center companies line up asking the state to referee their power fights, which tells you everything you need to know about where we are right now. Energy's still the backbone out
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Ty's Take The water district's 24 percent rate increase won't sit easy with anybody living in the Heights, and that's the kind of number that deserves a hard look before it gets rubber-stamped. Folks out there already pay attention to their