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Ty's Take The Phelps County Democrats held their stump picnic last weekend, which means somewhere around here a handful of people sat under trees eating potato salad while a few candidates made their case for the November ballot. It's the kind of event that doesn'
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Ty's Take The Fort Wyman stone showing up at the historical society is one of those moments that sneaks up quiet-like, but it matters more than you'd think. Most folks driving through Rolla don't know there was a fort here at all—a trading
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Ty's Take There's something about a slow week that tells you more about a place than any crisis ever could. OAT's running Young Frankenstein down at the Rolla little theater, somebody's bringing music to the Mission, the city council's pondering
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July parade committee's already thinking eight months ahead, which is either the mark of good planning or a sign that winter's got us all restless—probably both. Nothing wrong with sketching out next year's route and float
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Ty's Take The prairies that used to cover chunks of this county before anybody planted anything didn't disappear—they've been waiting. A partnership focused on sustainable land use is doing the work to find what's left of those native grasslands around Rolla
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Ty's Take Music doesn't ask much of a town—just a room and people willing to listen—but it does something to a place that nothing else quite manages. When somebody like Baum shows up at The Rolla Mission, it's not just a concert
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a small Ozarks county pushing the smooth chanterelle as Missouri's official state mushroom—a fungus that doesn't announce itself, grows quiet and persistent in the right conditions, and shows up in your kitchen if you know
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July parade committee's already thinking eight months ahead, which either means they learned their lesson from last year's traffic snarl or they're just optimistic the way small-town folks tend to be when summer's still a
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Ty's Take You don't have to go far south of town to find what the Ozarks looked like before we put our stamp on it—those remnant prairies tucked into the forest are living reminders, the kind of thing our grandparents would've walked past