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Ty's Take There's been a lot of talk lately about food deserts and what happens when the nearest decent grocery is forty minutes down the road, but most of that conversation happens in university towns and state capitals where people argue about problems they don'
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in the way this region keeps finding uses for what it's got. That data center project out near Sidney—burning off natural gas that would otherwise flare into the sky—isn't flashy, but it's
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making news that lands a sheriff's report. The courts log shows the usual mix—traffic, small-time stuff, the kind of routine that keeps Sweet Grass County humming
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Ty's Take May up here was one of those months that reminds you why we stay—warm enough to get the high country roads open, wet enough that the fire danger didn't spike like it's been doing the last few years, and the kind
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Ty's Take The library's new makerspace opening this week is the kind of quiet investment that reshapes a town over time—not the ribbon-cutting kind of news, but the kind that matters when a kid walks in after school and discovers she can build something,
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Ty's Take The primary dust settled yesterday with Alme and Bankhead moving on, but the real story isn't the names advancing—it's Alme stepping back from that property tax cap fight just as it was gaining traction. Around here we've watched enough
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher digging into how atmospheric rivers work their way across the arid West is doing what a lot of us in Carbon County have been wondering about for years—figuring out where the water actually comes from when it matters most. Those
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Ty's Take There's something to be said for a business that knows when to fold and move forward. Zest Kitchen Supply spent years building a name downtown, and now they're rebranding as Popover after a copyright dispute—not exactly the ending they drew up,
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Ty's Take Most towns measure their summer by when the beer gardens open and the tourists show up. Billings measures it by ZooMontana events—when you know the whole city's about to tear itself loose for a few hours and remember why living here beats about
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Ty's Take Three high schools walking their seniors across the stage this week, and you see it every year—the relief on parents' faces, the kids grinning like they've already figured out what comes next. But the real story's quieter. It's
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Ty's Take Summer's coming early to the planning stages around here, which means the phones at the chamber are already ringing with folks trying to figure out the Yellowstone puzzle. The park puts out these lists every couple years—parking tips, trail conditions, when the geysers
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Ty's Take TJ Comstock built seven hardware stores across Montana, but he's closing the Billings location where it all started—and that's worth thinking about. You can read it as a business story, sure, another Main Street shift as retail changes shape. But it&