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Ty's Take Election season's heating up around here, and anybody paying attention can see the money's already flowing in from outside trying to shape what people think. Meanwhile, down in Willow Springs they're moving forward with practical things, fire engines and flood
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of road near Lanton that's caught more than one driver off guard, and this week added another name to that list. Meanwhile, the community's doing what it does best, the kind of work that doesn't
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Ty's Take The Howell County Sheriff's Office is hiring, which means somebody around here saw an opening and decided to take a swing at it, and that's how these things work in county government. Meanwhile, Route VV's down to one lane for
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Ty's Take Jasper Engines making TIME's list of America's best private companies is the kind of news that reminds you why this region holds its own—a homegrown operation that built something real and kept building it, right here where the work gets done.
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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs past 110, you start seeing the real backbone of this county—the folks who have to keep working anyway. Cattle don't stop needing water because it's dangerous out there, and neither do the crews at the stockyards
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Ty's Take Two motorcycle wrecks and a serious car accident all in the same stretch of Howell County—that's the kind of week that reminds you why the ambulance crews around here earn every penny. We've got good people in the EMS service, and
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Ty's Take Seems like a rough stretch on our roads and in our vehicles—two accidents in as many days, a side-by-side rollover that caught three people, and another wreck out toward Willow Springs with four more hurt. You don't need me to tell
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Ty's Take When a neighboring county's audit comes back stamped "poor" because of illegal debt and misconduct in the sheriff's office, it's a reminder that the machinery of local government only runs clean when people are paying attention—and when
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Ty's Take Civic center's hosting a debate Wednesday night, and if you've got questions worth asking, the organizers want to hear them—that's the kind of thing that works best when it's not just the usual suspects doing the talking.
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Ty's Take Shannon County's sheriff is talking about a motor vehicle theft problem that's worth paying attention to—the kind of crime that hits harder out here than it might sound, because when somebody lifts your truck or your equipment, you're not
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Ty's Take You see a lot in a week like this—the university board thinking five years ahead, folks signing up for weather radios because they've learned what flash water can do, a kid from Willow Springs making VP at Coca-Cola, families gathering at reunions,
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Ty's Take Slow Tuesday in the Ozarks, the kind of day that reminds you how this region works—we lose good people, we mourn them, and life keeps moving forward. The obits in this week's paper read like a roster of names you'd see