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Ty's Take A grizzly working the country south of town is a reminder that we live in a place where the wild still has first claim on the land, and it changes how you think about everything else—your evening walk, your kid's summer camp, the
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Ty's Take When a man pleads guilty to meth charges after being swept up in a controversial police raid, when two scientists from one of the region's most sensitive research facilities face federal charges, and when the county sheriff's office is searching for interim
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Ty's Take Ted Turner's death this week closes a chapter on private conservation that won't come around again, not in this lifetime anyway. A man with enough money to think in generations instead of quarters bought up nearly two million acres across the West—
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Ty's Take A doctor from the Blackfeet reservation blowing the whistle on a clinic dispensing tens of thousands of pain pills—that's the kind of story that sits heavy on you, because you know the math by now. Those pills don't disappear. They get
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Ty's Take The weekly cops and courts rundown sits thin this week—a few citations, nothing that'd shake the county—but that's the kind of news that keeps a place like Sweet Grass running steady. You notice it more when you've sat
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Ty's Take Water's been a conversation at every coffee shop counter in this valley for years now, and when the town has to shut it off—even for maintenance, even for a few hours—it reminds everyone why. Red Lodge sits where it does because of
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Ty's Take The cardboard recycling program gets the axe while a tribal health clinic faces hard questions about opioid distribution—two stories that show how every decision, even the small ones about what we throw away, ripples through a region that's still learning to take care
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Ty's Take The Herders broke school records at state track, which means somebody's kid ran faster or jumped higher than anybody before them—and in a town this size, that matters more than most places understand. You can't hide talent in Big Timber; you
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in the Scare Ladies nonprofit paying off lunch debt for kids graduating out of Helena schools. Not the feel-good angle—though that's real enough—but what it says about who we are out here. A bunch
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Ty's Take Lockwood sent 112 kids out into the world on Sunday, which means 112 families sat in folding chairs squinting into the sun, wondering where the time went. That's the math of a graduating class in a town that's mostly known as a
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Ty's Take Chris Kukulski's goodbye to Billings is the kind of thing that sticks with you in a town this size—a man who helped build something here deciding it's time to build something smaller, somewhere quieter. You don't hear that story
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a new coffee shop opens downtown in the same week the water's running mean and high across the region—it's the difference between what we're building and what we're bracing for.