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Ty's Take Rolla's Veterans Memorial Park got two new additions this week, which is the kind of thing that happens quietly in a town like ours until you stop and think about who those monuments are for. Every name matters in a county this size, especially
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Ty's Take S&T's Coterie is out doing what they do best this fall, which is reminding the rest of us that the engineering school doesn't live in a bubble up on the hill. These women have been threading that needle for years,
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Ty's Take County folklore says you can read the winter ahead by splitting open an onion skin, and if those old signs are pointing toward something cold, the heat warnings slapped on us this week sure feel like they're making up for lost time. Storm crews
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Ty's Take Elm Street's going to be torn up for a few days while they get the utilities sorted, which is never fun downtown but it's the kind of work that keeps a town running straight instead of sideways. Meanwhile Ranney Run's
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Ty's Take Two fresh monuments at Veterans Memorial Park mean Rolla's finally gotten around to honoring some stories that should've been cast in bronze a long time ago. This is the kind of work that doesn't make anybody rich or famous, but
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Ty's Take Lanning Lane's going to be tore up for a while, which if you've lived here long enough means you've seen this dance before. The county figures it needs the work, and fair enough, that stretch has taken a beating from
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Ty's Take The American Solar Challenge rolling through Rolla on Tuesday is the kind of thing that makes this town work. You've got engineering students from across the country building solar-powered vehicles, competing across half the continent, and they're stopping here because S&
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Ty's Take Tom Hanks showing up in the news again with a gift to Clickety Clack is the kind of thing that happens when you run a typewriter shop in a college town with a good sense of humor about itself. But what sticks with you is the
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Ty's Take Storm sewer work starting Monday on Rolla Street means the next few weeks are going to be a little rougher getting through the heart of town, but it's the kind of work that doesn't show itself until it fails, and then it
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Ty's Take A decade in, Ranney Run has become one of those events that feels like it's always been part of the September calendar around here. Started small the way most good things do in rural counties, and now folks mark their fall by whether they&