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Ty's Take Commodity Day doesn't make the statewide news, but any farmer or rancher in Phelps County knows what it means: a chance to connect with folks who buy what you're selling, to move product, to keep the machinery running another season. That our
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Ty's Take October's got teeth this year. We've got a murder charge that's shaken St. James, the Ozark Alliance Theatre bringing real darkness to the stage with their Dracula production, and S&T firing up Movies on the Green with the
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Ty's Take Slow news week in the county, which means it's a good time to remember what really holds a place together. You've got folks showing up to the historical society to hear about log cabins, the GOP planning their annual picnic, someone working
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Ty's Take Council meetings get pushed back for a lot of reasons around here, but a possible legal challenge is the kind that makes you wonder what didn't get said in public before the vote happened. Meanwhile, the town's still digging out from summer
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Ty's Take The Rolla Choral Arts Society's bringing Whitman to the Ozarks this weekend with "I Hear America Singing," and that's exactly the kind of thing that keeps a college town from feeling too much like just another I-44 exit. This
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Ty's Take When Phelps County residents speak up about healthcare costs, they're not complaining into a void, they're sending a message that's hard to ignore in a rural county where insurance gaps and prescription prices hit different than they do in the
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Ty's Take I don't see actual headlines in what you've sent over. You've got a setup note about liking the word "Phelps County Focus" but no stories to work from. Send along what's actually running today and I&
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Ty's Take Somebody's finally making noise about the Dillon Log Cabin, and that matters more than it might sound to folks just passing through on I-44. These old structures don't stick around by accident, and they don't disappear by accident either.
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Ty's Take Gary White's Hoover Medal is the kind of honor that doesn't make the national news, but it means something real in a place like this. The Missouri S&T alumnus spent his career solving water problems in some of the world&
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Ty's Take Seems a fox got into somebody's henhouse again, which is the kind of problem that never really goes away around here no matter how many generations pass or how many new subdivisions go up. Meanwhile, the county's been placing a monument for
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Ty's Take Somebody at the fair board finally decided to do some house cleaning, and that's worth noticing in a county where volunteer organizations tend to run on the same people until they run out of steam entirely. New blood, new structure, new direction, that'