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Ty's Take The news about Rockets changing hands hits different when you've watched downtown go through its cycles. A lunch counter that fed construction crews and office workers for decades doesn't just disappear because the calendar turned, and the fact that new owners saw
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Ty's Take John McCampbell turned 100 this week, and if you've spent any time around Red Lodge you've probably crossed paths with a man who actually did the things most of us just talk about doing. The piece about him looking back got me
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Ty's Take Summer's hanging on by its fingernails around here, and there's plenty of work left to do before the season fully turns. The county fair wrapped up another good sale, the farmers market keeps running Fridays through mid-September, and if you'
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Ty's Take The MET's expanding free service for Banana Ball games is the kind of small move that adds up, especially for families trying to catch a game without dropping another twenty bucks on parking. But what it really signals is Billings understanding what a lot
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Ty's Take City Council spent time this week walking people through the new garbage rules, which is exactly the kind of unglamorous work that keeps a place running right. Nobody wakes up thinking about trash day, but when the system changes and the confusion sets in, the phones
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Ty's Take Early season bears coming down lower than usual means the usual warnings: don't leave garbage out, keep your distance, and for God's sake don't get between a sow and her cubs. But what it really means is the food sources
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Ty's Take A motorcycle crash that shut down Rimrock Road is a hard reminder that summer riding season around here moves fast, and so do the consequences when things go wrong. We see these calls come through, and every time it's somebody's husband or
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Ty's Take When the fair comes to town, you remember why these things matter. An emu in the poultry barn, a hairball competition, kids learning to show animals they've raised from scratch, families walking the grounds on a Sunday morning, a house burned Friday still smoldering
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Ty's Take Weather's been running hot and dry through the basin, which nobody needs to tell the folks managing water through late summer and into fall. The piece in this week's News on how Carbon County's holding steady through the extremes is
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Ty's Take A Billings man loading up his motorcycle to ride across the country for hemophilia awareness, neighbors we lost this week, the dairy plant passing inspection, and a shooting trial that's still working through what happened in Bonner back in 2023, these are the stories
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Ty's Take Jory Thomas left this town better than he found it, which is about the highest thing you can say about anybody who grows up here and stays put long enough to matter. The Pioneer's piece today reminds us that some people don't
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Ty's Take Fifty-two million federal dollars flowing into wildlife conservation and outdoor access across the region, new wayfinding signs going up around town to help visitors find their way, and Yellowstone tightening the reins on fishing in those rivers and streams again. Add it all up and