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Ty's Take We lost three good men this week—Thomas Riggins at ninety-five, Martin White at ninety, and Harry Spackman at forty-nine—and if you've been around the lake long enough, you probably knew at least one of them. That's the thing about a
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the high school and middle school—that's where we are now, and anybody pretending it's not a sign of something broken isn't paying attention. The Deming schools are installing OPENGATE screening systems, which means kids walk through
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Ty's Take Bail hearings tend to get lost in the noise of bigger court dockets, but when a prosecutor argues for no bail at all, something in the case has crossed a line that even judges take seriously. The Chimayó man in question is sitting in a cell
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Ty's Take Two colleges sending graduates out into the world the same week, a couple of major intersections getting hard looks from accident investigators, and a couple thousand women running through downtown on a Saturday morning—that's May in Billings, when the season finally turns and
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Ty's Take One traffic stop on the highway between here and the New Mexico line turned into the kind of bust that reminds you the drug trade doesn't care much about county lines or how small your town is. Sheriff's office pulled over a
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Ty's Take Crys Matthews coming through Society Hall is the kind of show that reminds you why a college town matters, especially one like Alamosa that's spent decades punching above its weight culturally. The guy writes songs about what's breaking people—inequality, climate, justice—
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Ty's Take Mother's Day hits different in a military town. You've got a guy like Javier Sanchez taking time to say it plain—that his mother shaped who he is—while over at Holloman, families are getting reunited around a holiday that's
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Ty's Take When Hannah Harper walked back into West Plains last week, three thousand people showed up to say welcome home—and that's the kind of thing that matters more than it might look like from the outside. This is a town that roots for its
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire crossing 6,000 acres while we're still in the thick of monsoon season is a reminder that Silver City sits in one of those peculiar spots where we're never quite safe from either too much water or too little—
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Ty's Take When grant money starts moving in this county, you can usually trace it back to somebody sitting in a room saying "we've got a problem worth fixing." The Northwest Energy and Missouri-Madison River Fund just handed out half a million dollars to
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Ty's Take One of our own is headed into the national spotlight with the Entrepreneur of Impact Competition, and that's worth noting in a town that's spent the last decade figuring out what comes after the boom-and-bust cycles of tourism and timber. When a
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Ty's Take The obits this week remind you that Las Cruces has real roots here—men who watched the valley change from orchards to suburbs, who raised families when water meant something different than it does now, who knew the town before the ring roads and the subdivisions