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Ty's Take There's a rhythm to September in Howell County that doesn't need much explaining to folks who've lived it. School's back, homecoming's coming, the Zizzers are in full swing, and somebody's always closing a street
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Ty's Take Tight budgets aren't new around here, but there's something worth noting when a town finishes the year three and a half million dollars under what it planned to spend. That's not accident, and it's not hardship either. It&
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Ty's Take The housing numbers out of Buena Vista land like a punch nobody wanted to see coming, and they're worth taking seriously if you live anywhere in this valley. When a town can't pencil out affordability for teachers, nurses, and the folks who
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Ty's Take The eclipse shots coming in from around the county are reminding us what it felt like to stop and look up together, which beats most of what passes for common ground these days. But that same week brought the kind of storm that makes you understand
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Ty's Take The Swiss Roll Fire assessment continues while election security gets parsed and kids sign up for fall programs, which is the rhythm of a week in a mountain town where you've got to keep your eye on the forest while the country argues about
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Ty's Take September's hitting us with the usual mix of infrastructure fixes and community upkeep, which is exactly how a town like this tends to operate when the summer fire season finally backs off. The state's paving NM 96, the utilities board is working
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Ty's Take Road work is never safe, and a MoDOT crew dealing with an injury out in Laclede County this week is a stark reminder of that. Those crews work the shoulders and medians while traffic rolls past at highway speeds, and it only takes one distracted driver
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez were the kind of people who made this valley run without ever needing a spotlight, and this week we're saying goodbye to both of them. You see their fingerprints everywhere in Las Cruces if you know where
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Sunny · Tonight 79° Mostly Clear · Wednesday 99° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take The Shootout brought the usual chaos and spectacle out on these waters this past weekend, boats
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Ty's Take Football season opened with a loss down at Pierce City, and that stings the way a season opener always does, but the real story this week is the heat bearing down on us like a blanket pulled too tight. When the thermometer starts climbing into dangerous
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both spent their years in this valley, and now both are gone, which is the kind of week that reminds you how small these communities really are. You see the names in the paper and you know the families,
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