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Ty's Take Looks like Red Lodge is sorting itself out on a couple fronts this week. You've got folks running hard for county attorney, which means somebody's got opinions about how justice gets handled around here, and that race usually tells you what people
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Ty's Take A federal judge handed Montana voters a win this week, blocking a law that would've tossed thousands of ballots into the trash. The ruling matters here because Carbon County, like plenty of rural Montana, has had its share of mail-in voters over the
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Ty's Take Spring's the time when a ranch operation either comes together or falls apart, and the Klessens place up there in the high country knows what it takes to survive this country. These operations aren't museum pieces or lifestyle plays, they're
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Ty's Take Hilderman's sworn in, the classical music series is back, and the Roosevelt Center's got the Sugar Daddies coming through, which means this town's firing on all cylinders again after whatever stretch of quiet we've had. You can feel
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Ty's Take A missing person in a county this size stops everything else cold, and by now most folks around Red Lodge know who we're looking for and what the search teams are doing. The specifics matter less right now than the simple fact: someone local
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Ty's Take The BLM's open comment period on local land management and the forecast talk about winter heading into uncharted territory—these aren't separate stories around here, they're the same conversation. When the feds put out the call for public input on
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a small county fills its calendar these days. The Wildlife Sanctuary pop-up over at Yellowstone isn't just another seasonal attraction for the tourists rolling through on their way to the park, though Lord knows we
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Ty's Take Winter's already shouldering its way in, and you can see it in the state parks switching their schedules down here in south-central Montana. It's that hinge moment where the summer push of tourists thins out and the roads start getting tricky,
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Ty's Take The seed law hitting farmers around here is one of those quiet regulations that sounds simple until you actually try to plant come spring. Most growers in Carbon County can't legally use their own saved seeds anymore, which means going back to the seed
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Ty's Take Three events in one week that probably wouldn't make the wire services anywhere else, but they tell you something real about who's living in and passing through Red Lodge right now. The Purple Paw folks are out here doing dog rescue work
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Ty's Take When the PSC sends a utility plan back for deficiencies, it usually means NorthWestern Energy and the rest of us are in for a longer conversation than anybody wanted. These rate cases matter more than they seem in the headlines, especially up here where a bad
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Ty's Take County commissioners met this week, which means somebody somewhere in Carbon County is either getting a permit approved or learning why the answer is no. That's how it works in a place where land use and water rights sit at the center of everything,