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Ty's Take When news breaks hard and fast in a county this size, you see what people are made of. We've got a man from Licking facing serious charges that nobody wants to think too hard about, a Houston resident who crossed a line with threats
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Ty's Take Police work around here this week looks like what it usually does: somebody's property walked off, traffic enforcement kept the highways safer than they'd otherwise be, and one situation escalated to where arrests had to happen. None of it surprises anybody who&
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Ty's Take Homecoming week's got the whole town turned around in that good way it does every fall, with the parade shaping up and the Tigers riding high after another win down at Salem. You can feel it in the way folks linger at the coffee
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Ty's Take A 19-year-old on a motorcycle, gone in what probably felt like a single moment on Saturday. That's the kind of news that moves through a county this size like a chill you can't shake off, the kind that reminds every
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Ty's Take Extreme drought moving across Texas County hits different when you're running cattle on pasture and your hay pile is already smaller than last year. The fire department stepping up to help farmers with prevention work shows how these volunteer operations understand what's
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Ty's Take A bus driver who kept her head when a child's airway closed up during a run, a county still sorting through what work looks like in 2025, and a traveling memorial that reminds us why ordinary people matter when everything hangs in the balance.
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Ty's Take Town council meetings don't usually light up the social calendar, but when you're sitting on audit numbers for a new year and talking about whether Houston itself ought to grow, people pay attention. The financials review and that expansion discussion going on
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Ty's Take Tiger football's got that unpredictable streak that makes Friday nights worth sitting through the weather, and Springfield Catholic showed up ready to play, but what matters most is that these kids keep showing up week after week in the heat and cold, building something
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Ty's Take A fire pulled everybody's attention this week, the kind of call that brings the whole county to a standstill when the sirens start up, and there's nothing quite like seeing what our volunteer departments can do when seconds matter. In between the
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Ty's Take Labor Day Monday means the mail carrier stays home and a good chunk of Houston shuts down, which is fine, because most folks around here will be doing the same. The holiday falls different ways depending on who you are: for some it's a
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Ty's Take David Cope spent his years in Texas County the way a lot of good men do around here, showing up to work and showing up for people, and now folks are left with that particular quiet that comes when someone who was just part of the
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Ty's Take When the drought hits this hard, every bit of paperwork that gets faster matters, and the news that our farmers can now qualify quicker for federal aid without jumping through as many hoops is the kind of thing that doesn't make headlines anywhere else