A newspaperman's answer to a shrinking newspaper town.

The Mile Marker is written and published at the Lake by Ty McDuffey. Before law school, Ty edited small town newspapers in Montana, the Big Horn County News and the Big Timber Pioneer, the kind of papers where the editor covers the county commission on Tuesday and the football game on Friday.

His family's roots at the Lake run generations deep: grandparents who founded Lake Ozark Water and Sewer, a father building custom homes here today, family in Lake real estate. This isn't a content farm pointed at a zip code. It's a local, writing the news down.

Local coverage everywhere keeps shrinking, and the Lake's news ends up scattered across Facebook groups, radio hits, and county PDFs. The Mile Marker's job is plain: gather it every morning, tell it straight, and keep it to five minutes.

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It's local. Coverage is the Lake: Camden, Miller, and Morgan counties, the towns around the water, and the people in them.

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