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Ty's Take Legionnaire's disease at a downtown hotel, a data center question heading to court before voters get their say, animal control caught in a budget squeeze—this is the kind of week that reminds you Billings isn't just a regional hub, it'
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Ty's Take The Milwaukee Bridge finally got the green light, which means somebody upstairs believes we can actually fix what's been crumbling over the Yellowstone for the better part of a decade. July 16 bid solicitation puts this thing maybe a year out from actual construction,
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Ty's Take Water trouble in Red Lodge hits different when you're talking about a town that's built its whole economy on having enough of it—for the ski hill, for the visitors, for the ranches that still matter out here. A shut-off notice
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Ty's Take The West End water treatment plant creeping toward the finish line says something about this city that doesn't always get said out loud—we're still growing, still betting on ourselves, still willing to spend the money to handle what comes next. That
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Ty's Take The Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo coming back around means the whole county gets to exhale for a weekend—the ranchers, the business folks downtown, the kids who've been waiting since last summer to see the bucking stock roll in. That rodeo grounds beside
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Ty's Take The Yellowstone County sheriff's office is asking for more money again, and this time the numbers actually add up—they're hiring, not padding. That's the kind of budget request worth taking seriously in a county that's grown as
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Ty's Take A woman out in western Montana got taken by people who knew exactly how to sound trustworthy over a screen, and now she's doing the hard work of telling other people what to watch for—which is the kind of thing that matters more
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Ty's Take There's something about a thin news day in early July that reminds you what actually holds a town together. The obituaries tell you who built this place—the ones who came here to work in the refineries, who ran businesses on Minnesota Avenue, who
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Ty's Take Mark Dewey Zupan getting named Veterans of the Year isn't just about honoring one man—it's about what we're asking of the people who stick around after they've done their service. Corporal Zupan came back to Red Lodge
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Ty's Take When a man with means decides to bet on the survival of local newspapers, it's worth asking why—and worth listening to the answer. David Hoffmann's millions flowing back into the papers that serve towns like ours isn't charity so
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show coming up this weekend is the kind of thing that reminds you why people who leave Big Timber keep coming back—pilots landing on the strip, folks polishing up their restorations out in the sun, that particular kind of Saturday
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of relief that comes when Beartooth Pass opens back up—not just for the tourists who can finally make the run to Yellowstone the way they planned it, but for those of us who live here and measure the seasons