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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 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 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
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Ty's Take You know it's spring in Red Lodge when Broadway starts looking like a construction zone and the city has to start telling people where they can't park. The Dead Swede project—that's the old hotel getting a long-overdue facelift—
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Ty's Take Our fire departments are training together at the new Fireboot Camp, Town Pump's throwing three-quarters of a million dollars at the problem, and nobody's pretending this is some feel-good story about community spirit—it's survival math. Wildfire season
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Ty's Take The Eagles Nest has been part of Red Lodge's skyline longer than most of us have been alive, and watching it sit there broken after last year's floods has been like watching a neighbor's house fall into disrepair—you keep
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Ty's Take The news out of Washington on the Forest Service budget cuts hits different when you're sitting in a town that exists because of what grows on those mountains—timber, water, recreation, all of it tied to how the feds manage what's up
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher out studying how those big atmospheric river storms actually recharge groundwater in the West—that's the kind of work that matters more than most people realize when you're living on top of your water rights and watching
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Ty's Take The Forest Service rolling out a new app to route hikers and hunters through the high country makes sense—Lord knows we need folks using trails smart, especially with how fire season keeps creeping earlier. But that same day's story about food insecurity in
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Ty's Take Summer tourist season is already on everybody's mind up here, which makes sense—it's the difference between a good year and a lean one for most of the businesses holding on in Red Lodge. The Park Service released their visitor guide for
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Ty's Take Norrine turning 96 and still got the spark to celebrate it—that's the kind of staying power this town runs on, whether you're talking about a woman they call the Outlaw Queen or the businesses cutting ribbons and opening new chapters around
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Ty's Take May up here was one of those months that reminds you why we stay—warm enough to get the high country roads open, wet enough that the fire danger didn't spike like it's been doing the last few years, and the kind