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Ty's Take There's a lawsuit working its way through the courts just south of here that cuts right to something this region's been wrestling with for generations—who belongs, who gets to stay, and what happens when money and property rights collide with the
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent more than four decades writing the stories of this county—the weddings and wrecks, the school board fights, the way people held on through hard times—and if you spent any real time reading the Quill, you knew her voice. She had that
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Ty's Take Marideth Sisco spent decades telling the stories of these hills—first as a reporter chasing the news, then as a voice on the radio bringing Ozark voices into living rooms across the region. She died this week at 82, and with her goes a particular kind
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Ty's Take You notice the traffic alerts stacking up in the news feed, the crashes coming in from all corners of the county and just across the line into Arkansas—Saturday, Sunday, Friday, all of it. Road conditions don't change that fast; what changes is us,
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Ty's Take Eight hundred people showing up to a Howell County Extension meeting says something worth paying attention to—that's not a crowd chasing novelty, that's neighbors who still believe the information matters. The Farm & Home Show coming up in two weeks will
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in that Walmart-Amazon race to speed up deliveries out here—because the real winner isn't going to be whichever company cuts a few days off shipping times, it's going to be whoever figures out that rural
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Ty's Take These aviation events don't come around often in Howell County, and Saturday's Flying Start at the EAA chapter is the kind of thing that plants seeds—maybe in a kid who's never been close to a plane, maybe in someone
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Ty's Take Every ten years after the census, somebody in power gets the idea they can draw better lines than God did, and here we are again watching states take their turn at the redistricting wheel before the midterms hit. Missouri's already been through this dance—
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Ty's Take Three hundred West Plains High School graduates walked across that stage Friday night, and somewhere in that crowd were kids whose parents sat in those same seats twenty, thirty years ago—kids who'll stay here, kids who'll leave and come back, kids
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Ty's Take Forty-five thousand birds during spring season tells you the turkey hunting's been good around here, which means come fall the woods'll be thinner and the freezers fuller—that's how this country works, season to season, and it's honest
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Ty's Take Megan Grant hit her 37th home run of the season this week, tying the Division I record, and if you're wondering why that matters to a town like West Plains, it's because she grew up right here—Zizzers through and through, the
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Ty's Take There's a quiet story buried in this week's smaller notices—the kind that doesn't make anybody's evening news but says something true about a town. Thayer's trap-neuter-return program for strays is working, which means somebody sat