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Ty's Take Three-vehicle crash near Ozark with a child from Ava injured, a debate tonight between Durnell and Smith, and the usual spring shuffle of seed buying and job postings—nothing earth-shaking on the wire this Wednesday, which is how most of us prefer it. When
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Ty's Take The Boys & Girls Club feeding kids through the summer while parents work harvest and hay season—that's the kind of thing that doesn't make the weather forecast or the state news, but it's exactly what holds a county together
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Ty's Take Sixteen school districts hitting perfect marks on bus inspections is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood race, but it ought to. You're talking about mechanics and drivers and fleet coordinators who've made safety routine enough
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Ty's Take The boil advisory lifting in Mountain View is the kind of quiet good news that doesn't make headlines but matters plenty to folks who've been boiling water for their coffee and their livestock—turns out the infrastructure stuff, the pipes and the
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Ty's Take A skydiving operation out of a Missouri airfield came down hard yesterday, killing all twelve people aboard—the kind of tragedy that stops a place cold, even one used to loss. We don't know yet what went wrong or where exactly it happened, but
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Ty's Take Seems like Friday had teeth this week—three serious wrecks scattered across the county, the kind that remind you how fast things can go wrong on these roads, especially when you're distracted or pressing your luck. Meanwhile, there's good news on the
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Ty's Take The library's dinosaur summer reading program and the city council's Monday night session on animal control and zoning might seem like separate stories, but they're really the same conversation—what does West Plains look like five, ten years from now?
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Ty's Take Mid-week around Howell County reads like it always does—some trouble on the roads, a couple of folks tangled up with the law, life moving along with its regular mix of accident and intent. But there's something worth holding onto in the noise:
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Ty's Take When money actually finds its way to the classroom and into the hands of kids who need it, you notice. The Paula Kaye Speraneo fund is putting real dollars into West Plains schools this month, and the state's rural education grants landed here too—
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Ty's Take Nearly four inches of rain in one storm will test any drainage system, and Tuesday night's downpour did exactly that—leaving more than 1,300 folks without power across West Plains while crews worked through the wet dark to get things running again. This
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Ty's Take June 25th marks seventy-three years since the guns started up on the Korean peninsula—a war that didn't make the evening news the way it should have, that pulled boys from places like this one across an ocean most of them had never
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Ty's Take The rain that hit southwestern Howell County hard enough to trigger a flash flood warning Tuesday is the kind that comes down like a bucket turned upside down—good for the pastures and stock tanks, bad for anybody caught in a low water crossing or parked