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Ty's Take The Houston Educational Foundation's got their fundraiser locked in for the 29th out at the 'BARn, and if you've been around here long enough you know what that means: a chance to put some money behind the kids who'll
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Ty's Take Barbara Ann White and Mary Virginia Earp both lived long lives in Texas County, and now the community that knew them is smaller. That's the way of things in a county this size, where generations overlap and you can trace family trees like timber
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Ty's Take The FFA kids packing meals against food insecurity and the sheriff's office dealing with a fatal shooting in the same news cycle tells you something about what Texas County is right now. We've got young people stepping up to help their neighbors
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Ty's Take Football season opened with a loss down at Pierce City, and that stings the way a season opener always does, but the real story this week is the heat bearing down on us like a blanket pulled too tight. When the thermometer starts climbing into dangerous
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Ty's Take Saturday was a hard reminder that these county roads don't forgive mistakes, and they don't care much about speed or experience either. Two separate accidents in one day, one south of Cabool and another near Success, left people hurt and families dealing
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Ty's Take There's a particular stretch of road southwest of Licking where the deer seem to know exactly when to cross, which is to say they don't know at all. Happens every fall when the heat breaks and the animals get restless, moving between
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Ty's Take Ten years of STEM grants and a new hospitalist at the hospital means somebody around the county office and the healthcare board has been doing their homework, and doing it well. But what really jumps out this week is how seriously the schools are taking their
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Ty's Take County commissioners did what they had to do this week, holding the line on the tax rate while everybody knows the bills don't stop coming. Nobody goes into public service to be popular, and keeping the books balanced in a county this size means
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Ty's Take There's something about a Hardee's reopening that tells you more than it first seems, especially in a county seat of two thousand where a working lunch or quick dinner still matters to folks coming off a timber job or heading back out
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Ty's Take Football season around here is the closest thing we have to a statewide holiday, and the Tigers are sharpening up after what sounds like a solid offseason under the lights. You can't walk through Houston without hearing talk about who's back, who&
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Ty's Take School's back in session and the new HHS volleyball team is taking the court with fresh faces leading the way, which means we're sliding into that stretch where the social calendar starts running the town the way it always does. Before the
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Ty's Take Road accidents that end with the injured party facing charges are usually the ones that stick with a community, and this one out of Raymondville won't be any different. When the person hurt in the wreck is the one law enforcement decides to prosecute,