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Ty's Take Rain came through last week, the kind that breaks the monotony and makes you think maybe we've turned a corner, but the Weather Service drought map that came out before those clouds rolled in hasn't budged yet. That's the nature
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Ty's Take Big Red Car Wash opening back up after years of fits and starts says something about this county that matters more than a ribbon cutting. Somebody stuck with that property through the stops and starts, through whatever kept pushing the project back, and finished the job.
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Ty's Take Three separate grand jury indictments for assault in one week, plus a standoff that ended in charges out Raymondville way, tells you something about what's been keeping the sheriff's office and courthouse busy lately. You don't need to be a
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from watching kids you've known since grade school do something well, and this week the Houston Herald's pages are full of it. The cross country team brought home the SCA crown again
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of grace that shows up in small towns when somebody does their job right over a long stretch of time. Kristina Grant's patients saying so, a little girl getting the care she needed when minutes counted, folks remembering
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Ty's Take A Saturday afternoon wreck south of Houston that left one dead and five hurt reminds us what those stretches of U.S. 63 demand from drivers, especially when the weather shifts and the road gets slick. We lose people on that highway more often than we
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Ty's Take Drought years test what a county's really made of, and we're in one now. The "extreme" tag covering most of Texas County isn't just a weather service classification, it's a daily reality for anybody running cattle
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Ty's Take Small towns get by on the things that work, and the Houston Fire Department's decision to add a UTV to the fleet makes the kind of practical sense that doesn't need much defending. Out here where a lot of your calls come
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Ty's Take High school track meets aren't always the marquee event around here, but when you've got two runners who show up every Saturday and do the work the same way they do it in practice, people notice. Copley and Huffman taking first and
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Ty's Take Eight million dollars is a lot of money in a county seat of two thousand people, which is why Houston's bond issue on the November ballot deserves hard thinking from anyone who pays property taxes around here. The city council is moving forward on
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to talk about suicide, which is exactly why we need to keep talking about it. A former Licking resident doing that work now, shining light on prevention, reminds us that some of the hardest conversations happen in small towns where everyone knows everyone and
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Ty's Take Two separate reminders this week that the roads and trails around Texas County don't forgive carelessness. A man ended up in Springfield hospital after an ATV accident north of Willow Springs, the kind of thing that happens when you're moving fast through