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Ty's Take Saturday turned out to be one of those days when the state patrol had their hands full across the county. A Cabool woman found herself in custody after a traffic stop, while over in Phelps County a Houston man walked away from a two-vehicle wreck
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Ty's Take It's a thin news day out of the Sheriff's Office and State Patrol, the kind that reminds you how quickly things can go wrong for people around here. A man facing a failure to register charge, a teenager in Seymour laid up
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Ty's Take A rough week around here starts with a man dead on the road and a chase that ended against a building downtown, which tells you something about the pressure that builds up in a county this size when the heat stays on and the rain won&
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Ty's Take Most days in a county this size you get the usual run of it, weather and school board meetings and somebody's prize heifer. Then a Wednesday comes along and the patrol pulls two kids out of the dirt south of Licking, and up in
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Ty's Take Road work on Highway K is going to slow some folks down over the next stretch, but anybody who's driven these county roads knows the pavement out here takes a beating from the weather and the weight of cattle trucks heading to market. The
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Ty's Take Road work and traffic wrecks are part of fall around here, but when you've got Kimble Road shut down for repairs and somebody getting hurt out on 63 in the same week, it reminds you to ease up on the gas and pay attention
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Ty's Take You've got a young man in serious condition after a motorcycle wreck, a deputy dealing with a felon and a dead dog, and deer season running lean across the county, but what's sticking with me today is that our high school kids
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Ty's Take Couple rough days around here when you string them together. A man facing charges after his truck went through trees and into a house, a wildfire that pulled our crews out near the county line, a parking lot fire that had folks running out of their
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Ty's Take Thirty years is a long time to keep a technical college running in a county this size, which tells you something about what Texas County Technical College has meant to folks around here. The school's been steady work, training people for jobs that actually
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Ty's Take The National Weather Service folks don't use the word drought lightly, and when they're saying it about Texas County right now, that's worth paying attention. We've had dry stretches before, plenty of them, but what makes this one
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Ty's Take County government's been busy this week, which might explain why somebody's smoke detector got a workout at the administrative building. Between appointing township folks, watching sales tax numbers slip a notch in both Houston and Cabool, and sorting out what appears to
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Ty's Take A bad stretch of road claimed another life Tuesday night when a motorcyclist didn't make it home on Route 106, the kind of accident that settles heavy in a county where everybody knows somebody. Same night, firefighters were out fighting brush on the other