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Ty's Take Nothing says small-town success like coming home to work alongside the person who taught you the trade. A new veterinarian setting up shop here with their former mentor isn't just filling a business need, though Lord knows we've got cattle operations
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Ty's Take When a pharmacy starts turning people away because the prescription line won't quit, you know something upstream broke. Forbes Pharmacy in town has been slammed since Hutcheson closed their doors, and old Jim and his crew are doing what they always do, which is
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Ty's Take When the water came back safe to drink straight from the tap Wednesday, most folks probably just turned the faucet like they always do and didn't think twice about it. That's how it should be. But that boil advisory that had half
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Ty's Take When a week's worth of headlines lands on domestic violence, narcotics, and a fresh business trying to build trust in a small market, you're looking at a county working through real problems. The felony charge here in Houston and the bust over
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Ty's Take The $8 million bond question sitting on the November ballot is the kind of decision that doesn't get easier the longer a town waits. Houston's infrastructure needs are real enough that the city council felt compelled to move forward, and you can&
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Ty's Take Man shoots a drone out of the sky over his property, and suddenly we're living in times that would've seemed like science fiction twenty years back. Used to be your biggest privacy worry was a neighbor with binoculars. Now you've
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Ty's Take A boil water advisory hit parts of the county this week, the kind of notice that sends folks scrambling to remember where they stashed those gallon jugs and reminds you all over again why a working water system matters more than most people think until it
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Ty's Take A missing girl found safe, two separate wrecks that could've gone worse, and a doctor at Texas County Memorial Hospital making the kind of split-second call that reminds you why having real medical talent in a county seat matters, even one this small.
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Ty's Take A boil water advisory down in Summersville, progress on the track and field work here in Houston, and the football team heading over to Cabool for Friday night, all of it the kind of stuff that keeps a county humming along when nobody's paying
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Ty's Take There's something about a restaurant deciding to pack up and start fresh that tells you more about a town than any economic report ever could. Panda House moving to a new location for a total refresh isn't just business as usual, it&
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Ty's Take Football season's coming but the bleachers won't be ready when the Tigers take the field for their home opener, thanks to track construction that's pushed the game back a week or two. It's the kind of scheduling headache
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Ty's Take Heat advisory hanging over the county through the weekend means folks need to keep an eye on their cattle and make sure the water troughs stay full, because cattle don't do well when the thermometer climbs and the humidity sits heavy in the Ozarks