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Ty's Take August heat's been sitting on us for three weeks now, and we've all gotten comfortable with the dry spell. That changes come Friday, when the National Weather Service is calling for heavy rain and flash flood potential across Grant County. Anyone who&
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Ty's Take The county fair Saturday is the kind of thing you either grow up understanding or you don't, and most of us around here did. Kids roping calves, families working stock together, the ranch rodeo showing what actually happens on the land instead of in
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Ty's Take Looks like the county Democrats got their annual stump picnic in the books, which means somebody's running for something and somebody else is listening. These things matter in a place like Phelps County where every office from assessor on up decides what kind of
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Ty's Take The county fair opens today with the Rio Blanco Fire still pushing evacuation orders through the north end of the county, which tells you something about who we are. Most years you've got families cruising the midway without much on their minds beyond funnel
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Ty's Take Smoke drifting down from the Star Fire burning north of here in Santa Clara Canyon is a reminder that fire season on the plateau never really lets up, even when the news cycle turns to back-to-school traffic and summer concerts at Ashley Pond. For
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Ty's Take You lose people in this town and you feel the weight of it different than you do in the cities up north. Carol Ann Knapp Foreman knew these valleys. Clarence Villemez worked them. Shannyn Caldwell and Timothy Hourigan were part of the fabric here, the kind
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 75° Chance Rain Showers · Tonight 67° Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy · Sunday 83° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Friday night's tornado watch is coming at
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Ty's Take A murder trial, a hunger report, and child abuse charges all landing in the same week tells you something about the weight that sits on a county seat, even one as small and tight as ours. Houston doesn't get the crime coverage that bigger
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman taught school here for forty years, which in a valley this size means she knew half the families by their kids and the other half by their grandkids. Clarence Villemez worked the land and raised his own, the way most of us
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Ty's Take School's ramping up again, which means the usual reminders about slowing down near the buildings and watching for kids cutting across streets. Nothing fancy in that message, just the hard truth that a parent in a hurry or a driver not paying attention can
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Ty's Take The water's been running low on the Chama most of the summer, but word is the fishing's picking up down south where they've had better runoff, and that's the kind of thing that gets people thinking about their