Daily Digest
Ty's Take The Greycliff Mill's still standing, which is what matters most when a fire gets that close to a place that's been grinding grain since before most of us were born. The Grey Fire came hard enough to threaten the structure itself, but
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The Crazy Mountain Museum's expansion might seem like a quiet local story, but it's actually a reminder of what happens when a community decides its own history matters enough to protect it. Out here, we've watched too many small towns
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The Grey Fire came close enough to make folks hold their breath, but the Greycliff Mill—one of the few pieces of industrial infrastructure left in this country—dodged the bullet. Meanwhile, Ted Turner's passing has set loose a hundred stories about what one
Daily Digest
Ty's Take Slow week on the blotter—nothing that'll keep anybody up at night—which gives us room to notice what's actually holding this county together. There's a woman out in Joliet doing the unglamorous work of matching people with what they
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The school levy didn't pass, and Big Timber voters made clear they want a new direction on the board—which is their right, and it stings the way these things do when you've got kids in the system. What matters now is
Daily Digest
Ty's Take Ted Turner didn't invent the mythology around himself—this country did, and he was smart enough to lean into it. The man bought land here, raised buffalo, and lived the way he wanted to live, which in southwest Montana means you become either a
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The school levy went down and Jim Hanson lost his seat Tuesday night, which means Sweet Grass County just told its board of trustees something plain: we're not spending more money the way things stand now. You can read that as anger about the
Daily Digest
Ty's Take When Supaman rolled through town this week sharing music and culture, and the Lions Club marked a hundred years of showing up for neighbors, it reminded you what these gatherings are really about—they're the connective tissue that keeps a place like Big Timber
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The snowpack numbers out of the Upper Yellowstone are sitting at 75 percent of median—record lows in some places—which means water managers and ranchers are already doing the math on what a dry summer looks like for cattle operations and irrigation that's
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The timing on this automotive program couldn't be better—we've got kids who'd rather learn with a wrench in their hand than sit through another algebra class, and we've got a real shortage of folks who know what
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The snowpack numbers sitting at 75 percent of median tells you everything you need to know about what's coming downstream this summer—and it's not much. We've seen dry years before, but record lows at multiple reporting sites up the