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Ty's Take June 25th marks seventy-three years since the guns started up on the Korean peninsula—a war that didn't make the evening news the way it should have, that pulled boys from places like this one across an ocean most of them had never crossed,
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision landed this week the way desert heat does—all at once and changing everything downstream—and while the lawyers sort out what it means for the Rio Grande, Truth or Consequences has a more immediate problem
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Ty's Take Spring's still a ways off, but Silver City's already got rodeo fever—the Wild, Wild West Rodeo is coming up, and if history's any guide, it'll draw the kind of crowd that reminds us why this town'
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher digging into how atmospheric rivers work their way across the arid West is doing what a lot of us in Carbon County have been wondering about for years—figuring out where the water actually comes from when it matters most. Those
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions coming June 6th means the dry season is officially here, and if you've lived through the last few years in Archuleta County, you know what that calendar marker really means—the next four months will be a holding of breath. Stage 1
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Ty's Take Three men from this valley won't be here to see what comes next—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, 70, each of them woven into the fabric of a place that doesn't always know how to say goodbye to
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Ty's Take You spend enough time around the lake and you notice the rhythm—seasons change, the water comes and goes, and people keep building, fixing, planning ahead. This week's got that feel, with the outlet mall TIF moving forward and folks finally getting their boil
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, long enough that people move away, memories fog up, and faith in the system gets real thin. The charges filed this week in the Tory Sanders case and the related allegations against former law enforcement—that&
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Ty's Take Fire season's already knocking at the door up here—Seven Cabins burning near Capitan means the Forest Service is watching the high country closer than usual, and anyone with property in the Brazos or up toward the Colorado line better have their evacuation plan
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Ty's Take There's something to be said for a business that knows when to fold and move forward. Zest Kitchen Supply spent years building a name downtown, and now they're rebranding as Popover after a copyright dispute—not exactly the ending they drew up,
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Ty's Take Every summer around here comes down to the same calculation: how many weekends before the heat really sets in and people stop venturing out, before water becomes the only thing anybody wants to talk about again. This first big one—Society Hall packed for the songwriters,
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Ty's Take Victor Hanson's column landing in the paper today—pushing back on the idea that we're trapped in some inevitable conflict spiral with China—hits different out here where half the economy runs on defense contracts and the other half worries those contracts