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Ty's Take When a hospital team has to improvise to save two lives at once—a mother and her newborn both fighting in the ICU—you get a reminder of what keeps this city running underneath all the talk about energy markets and downtown development. Montana Tech'
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Ty's Take Quiet weeks like this one remind you why small-town papers matter—not because we're chasing headlines, but because we're keeping track of who's doing what and where. The briefs column is where you find out the county commission met, the
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Ty's Take Two colleges sending graduates out into the world the same week, a couple of major intersections getting hard looks from accident investigators, and a couple thousand women running through downtown on a Saturday morning—that's May in Billings, when the season finally turns and
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Ty's Take When grant money starts moving in this county, you can usually trace it back to somebody sitting in a room saying "we've got a problem worth fixing." The Northwest Energy and Missouri-Madison River Fund just handed out half a million dollars to
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Ty's Take When a water system at a major hotel can't keep guests safe from Legionnaires', when fuel costs start cutting into regional air service, and when a long-running conservation project loses its grazing permits all in the same news cycle, you're looking
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Ty's Take Brownfield talk in a small town usually means one of two things: either somebody's finally going to clean up an eyesore, or somebody's going to spend five years in meetings while nothing happens. Red Lodge is in that conversation right now, looking
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Ty's Take A thin news day in early May usually means the community's attention is split between spring work and the machinery of an election season, but today's headlines carry weight anyway—a teenager dead in a motorcycle crash, a woman killed near Big
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Ty's Take Every spring in a town like this, you get a particular kind of story—the kid who worked hard, stayed focused, and now gets to walk across that stage knowing they earned it. Micah Falls is that story, the kind that reminds you why you stick
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Ty's Take The school levy went down and Jim Hanson lost his seat Tuesday night, which means Sweet Grass County just told its board of trustees something plain: we're not spending more money the way things stand now. You can read that as anger about the
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Ty's Take School levies don't fail in a vacuum, and voters in Billings just sent a message that's hard to miss—they're tired, stretched thin, or both. Two mill levies went down on the same ballot where board incumbents sailed through, which
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Ty's Take When Supaman rolled through town this week sharing music and culture, and the Lions Club marked a hundred years of showing up for neighbors, it reminded you what these gatherings are really about—they're the connective tissue that keeps a place like Big Timber
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Ty's Take Fourteen percent of folks signing up for ACA coverage in Carbon County are looking at January premiums they're genuinely worried about affording, which is another way of saying the math still doesn't work for a slice of this community no matter how