Ty's Take That million-dollar gift to the Community Foundation for MSU-West Plains scholarships shows what happens when people who made it out remember where they came from—and what happens when a regional university does right by the kids who can't afford to leave. Scholarship money
Ty's Take The Tiger Stadium track closure hits different when you're a town this size—it's not just about the runners and jumpers who won't have a place to train, it's about the Friday nights when families walk over to
Ty's Take Monday nights around the Grant County sheriff's office tend to be quiet, which makes it worth noting when they aren't. Between a hit-and-run that landed an 18-year-old in the system and whatever else kept the deputies moving, it looks like the start
Ty's Take Unemployment down to 2.8 percent, Pirates picking up all-state honors, and the school district moving forward with a new language arts curriculum—on the surface it reads like a town humming along fine. But underneath, the real story is the one you see in those
Ty's Take You've got to pay attention when the big development money starts filing Chapter 11 around here—it usually means somebody's backyard is about to look a lot different than they planned. Jeff Tegethoff's bankruptcy filing and his sudden exit from
Ty's Take A doctor from the Blackfeet reservation blowing the whistle on a clinic dispensing tens of thousands of pain pills—that's the kind of story that sits heavy on you, because you know the math by now. Those pills don't disappear. They get
Ty's Take The weekly cops and courts rundown sits thin this week—a few citations, nothing that'd shake the county—but that's the kind of news that keeps a place like Sweet Grass running steady. You notice it more when you've sat
Ty's Take Election season's already heating up in the valley, which means the road shows are rolling in and the usual promises are getting dusted off for another round. Alex Kelloff's bringing his By The People Tour through Alamosa, and fair enough—that'
Ty's Take The Great Sand Dunes pulled in more visitors than ever these first four months of the year, which tells you something about what people are hungry for—space, silence, something that doesn't require a WiFi password. That's good news for the valley&
Ty's Take There's something about late spring in Otero County when the all-star rosters come out and the fishing reports turn serious—it's the moment when kids and their parents both remember why they stick around a place like this. Four or five of
Ty's Take Milan Mimcilovic turning down the NBA draft to play college ball at Kentucky tells you something about West Plains and what this town can build when it decides to do something right—a kid with legitimate pro options choosing the long road instead, and choosing to
Ty's Take The new auditor's coming in swinging, and Truth or Consequences is getting the kind of hard look it probably needed anyway—no sugar, just the numbers on whether this town's been padding its utility revenues like they used to do back in