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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'
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in the way this week's good news all points the same direction. A botanist out here cataloging what grows in our corner of the Ozarks, a couple of locals getting their names on a plaque in Jefferson City,
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Ty's Take There's a sermon waiting to happen in that headline, and most of us sitting in the pews already know how it goes. We hear it every few years, usually when somebody local decides the world needs to know how important they are, and a
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Ty's Take The Celebration of Nations parade is still months off, but that's how it works in a town built on tradition. Missouri S&T's St. Pat's has been the heartbeat of this place since before most of us were born,
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Ty's Take Downtown traffic's going to feel the squeeze this weekend and into early next week as crews tear into that Sixth and Rolla intersection, which if you've spent any time navigating uptown knows it's already one of the tighter spots in
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Ty's Take When a funeral home loses its license, that's a failure at the most intimate level of community service. The state revocation in Phelps and Dent counties strikes at something people have to trust absolutely, whether they're planning ahead or standing in the
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Ty's Take The old mill on North Main has always been the kind of building that made you wonder what it was thinking about. For decades it sat there, brick and bones, holding whatever memory a textile operation holds after the looms go quiet. Now somebody's
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Ty's Take The Kaleidoscope Discovery Center's new Curiosity Hall opens its doors with a state championship already on the books, which says something about what Rolla's figured out when it comes to getting young people excited about learning. That kind of traffic, that kind