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Ty's Take A new president at the state university, 31 fresh nurses joining Billings Clinic, a church that's been here since the beginning marking another chapter, and a medical residency program hitting its tenth year. That's the kind of day it is, and that&
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Ty's Take The vote at the mill wasn't close, and that tells you something about what the company's last offer looked like to the men and women who work there. When a union membership turns down a contract by the kind of margin we
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Ty's Take A high-speed chase ending in a SWAT arrest down in Alamosa, a yearling bear prowling Creede looking for water, voluntary closures on stretches of the Rio Grande. The pattern shows itself if you've lived here long enough: when the mountains don't
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Ty's Take The spring bite's been coming in fits and starts across the basin and up into the Sacramento foothills, which means half the county's about to remember why they moved here in the first place. Between the base schedules, the missile range closures,
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Ty's Take Roads keep our region stitched together, and when Route VV goes down for pavement work, folks around Howell County adjust like they always do. Same week you've got Mountain View taking delivery of a new skid steer for their own maintenance needs, which tells
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Ty's Take Water's been the subject around here long enough that you'd think we'd be used to watching the levels drop, but something about low water at Elephant Butte brings out the cleanup crews like nothing else. There's a practical
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Ty's Take The heat advisories piling up in the scanner traffic tell you everything about the week ahead, but there's something else worth watching beneath the surface of these routine headlines. A state land purchase in the Mimbres Valley, a library facing the budget knife in
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Ty's Take The fair's coming up Friday with the junior livestock auction, and that's worth paying attention to if you've got kids in 4-H or FFA around here. Those kids put months into raising animals, learning responsibility the hard way, and
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Ty's Take Tom Hanks buying a typewriter from Clickety Clack is the kind of thing that happens when you run a business in a town with real character, and it's worth noting that he sent a gift back to the shop after the transaction. That'
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Ty's Take There's a lot happening around Red Lodge this spring, from the wrestling champ heading to state and the music festival gearing up to the fair coming around again, and that's the good stuff you want to see in a small town. But
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Ty's Take Three ballot questions running at once, a real estate win for the town, and the Rio Blanco Fire holding steady at 440 acres, and you've got a week where Pagosa's trying to build something while fire season breathes down its neck. The
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Ty's Take The Oso Canyon Fire is contained, the bears are walking through town again as August settles in, and up on the hill they're talking about powering America's AI future while down here we're still learning what it means to live