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Ty's Take Two motorcycle wrecks in two days, one involving a visitor from Alabama and another just down the road in Desloge, leaves you wondering what's got into people this weekend. You don't have to ride long in this country to know the roads
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Ty's Take Howell County just rolled back its general revenue property tax to zero, which sounds like a headline writers dream until you start asking the follow-up questions. The commission made the move based on fund balance, meaning they've got enough in reserves to cover
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Ty's Take Some weeks the news comes at you all at once, and this is one of them. We've got officers involved in shootings, privacy charges against locals, a disbarred attorney we all knew, and enough courthouse trouble to keep the talk going down at the
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Ty's Take West Plains High School soccer has the makings of a real run this fall, and you can trace it straight back to the fact that these Zizzers are keeping most of their roster together. Experience in a sport like soccer is worth its weight in hay
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Ty's Take A West Plains man's arrest this week on invasion of privacy charges serves as a hard reminder that the places we move through every day, the businesses we shop in and work at, aren't always as safe as we assume. Recording women
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Ty's Take Dolly Parton's death hits different when you've got family roots running this deep into Ozark country. She wasn't just a country music legend who happened to have ties here, she was woven into the fabric of what this region means,
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of bad luck running through the county this week, the kind that reminds you how quick things can turn. A four-car wreck south of town put four people in the hospital, somebody's facing charges over mushrooms (and you
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Ty's Take School starts in a few weeks and the Highway Patrol is out front with the reminders, which tells you something about how serious things get once the buses roll again. Meanwhile, the Senior Resource Fair coming up on the 11th will draw folks who've
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Ty's Take Road conditions around here have been rough enough that we've had more accidents than usual in just the past few days, from Raymondville to Southfork to right here in West Plains, and a couple of them serious enough to land folks in the hospital.
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Ty's Take The Lindeman case sitting in front of Judge Prewitt carries the weight of this whole county's understanding of when a man can defend what's his, and that's not something to rush through paperwork on. Meanwhile, the scholarship created for Kamie
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Ty's Take Oregon-Howell R-III just caught a break that doesn't come around often. A state grant to replace a diesel school bus, no cost to the district, means that money stays in the classroom instead of going to a mechanic. Around here where school
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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,