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Ty's Take A hundred years on this earth and still somebody you want to give a ride to—that's the kind of thing that sticks with you in a town like this. These two folks are living proof that Sweet Grass County doesn't use
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Ty's Take The ICE raids down in Gallatin County this week hit closer to home than some folks around here want to admit—we've got neighbors and friends in the agricultural and construction trades who live with that kind of uncertainty every single day, and when
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Ty's Take The Milwaukee Bridge finally got the green light, which means somebody upstairs believes we can actually fix what's been crumbling over the Yellowstone for the better part of a decade. July 16 bid solicitation puts this thing maybe a year out from actual construction,
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Ty's Take The Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo coming back around means the whole county gets to exhale for a weekend—the ranchers, the business folks downtown, the kids who've been waiting since last summer to see the bucking stock roll in. That rodeo grounds beside
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show coming up this weekend is the kind of thing that reminds you why people who leave Big Timber keep coming back—pilots landing on the strip, folks polishing up their restorations out in the sun, that particular kind of Saturday that
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Ty's Take Couple of our kids made the Northwest College Honor Roll this semester, which means they're carrying Big Timber's name up to Powell and holding their own in the classroom—worth noting in a county where half the seniors head straight to work
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people stick around here—where else can you park a restored '57 Chevy next to a Cessna on the same stretch of ground and call it Saturday? It draws
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Ty's Take The cops and courts log this week shows the usual scatter—nothing that shakes the county—but the real news is that the Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo is back and promising an unforgettable weekend. After the years we've all had, that kind of
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Ty's Take The fly-in bringing pilots and car restorers to town this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people choose to stay in places like this—or come back to them. You get ranchers' kids standing next to vintage Corvettes, small-town mechanics talking
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this valley moves when somebody asks hard questions about where food actually comes from. The Pioneer's piece on local markets and food security isn't abstract—it's about whether a rancher's
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Ty's Take The festival's back, Metcalf's getting recognition, and the branding crews are still moving cattle the way their fathers and grandfathers did—which says something about what holds in this country when everything else is shifting. You can read a lot into a
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Ty's Take Ted Turner's land deals over the past few decades have quietly reshaped how a lot of us think about conservation in ranch country—whether we admitted it or not at the time. The man bought up pieces of Montana and Wyoming when nobody else