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Ty's Take When you lose someone from the community, you're losing more than a name in the paper. Rhonda Sanders, Nelva Sue McIlwain, and Barbara Ann Vincent were woven into the fabric of this place the way most of us are, through decades of showing up,
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Ty's Take There's a pattern running through this week's docket that ought to worry anybody paying attention to what's happening around here. Between the sexual misconduct cases, the repeat offender drawing seven years, and a missing teenager flagged as endangered, Howell County&
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Ty's Take The law enforcement facility getting a fresh look from Elevatus Architects is overdue, and anybody who's spent time at the current building knows it. But while the designers are drawing up needs and plans, West Plains is also working on the human side of
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Ty's Take Nine years is a long time for anybody to run, and Douglas County law enforcement finally caught up with a woman who'd been wanted all that time. It's the kind of story that reminds you how small these communities really are, how
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Ty's Take Road conditions around here have been the subject of plenty of talk over the years, but this week's accident reports from Ellsinore and Houston remind you that talk doesn't change much on the pavement. Two separate crashes, injuries adding up, the kind
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Ty's Take You look at a slow summer week in a small county and you see the backbone of what holds a place together: folks stepping up to fund a camp for kids, a library getting steady leadership, teachers getting welcomed proper instead of just showing up to
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Ty's Take August heat's got everybody thinking the same way right now: how to stay cool and how to keep the grass from catching fire. The free pool day tomorrow and talk of burn bans down in Arkansas remind you that summer out here doesn'
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Ty's Take Dianna Locke taking over as manager of the West Plains Public Library comes at a time when this town's doing something right with its public spaces, and that matters more than folks probably realize. The downtown revitalization work, the property tax rate holding steady,
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Ty's Take The animal shelter opening on Saturday is one of those small-town victories that doesn't make much noise but matters plenty when you're standing in it. For years, folks around here have been driving to Springfield or further when they needed help
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Ty's Take The Ozarks Historic Resource Center's conversation series hitting its fifth installment with a look at modernity and tradition in this part of the country is the kind of thing that matters more than it might sound like at first. Two hundred fifty years of
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Ty's Take School's coming hard and fast, and around here that means the usual scramble to get kids ready. The good news is the community's stepping up the way it always does, collecting supplies for families who can't quite make the stretch
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Ty's Take Howell County voters made themselves heard last week, turning down the sales tax increase but also sending a clear message about who they want running the county going forward. Meanwhile, the county commission is working through the harder part: what happens next with that aging sheriff&