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Ty's Take The drought keeps tightening, water keeps getting scarcer, and the county keeps raising fees—which is what happens when a place built on abundance wakes up to scarcity. PAWSD's got to recalibrate their numbers on the San Juan, the fire restrictions are getting stricter
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Ty's Take Fire assessment complete, monsoon season here, and the county's running a DIY workshop on the eighteenth—which tells you something about where Los Alamos' head is at right now. Between the McCauley Springs burn scar still fresh in people's minds and
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Ty's Take The obits page today carries names that mean something in this valley—Knapp, Villemez, Hourigan—people who were here when the orchards still stretched wider and the water fights were mostly about farming. Meanwhile down at the other end of the paper, you've got
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Ty's Take Camdenton's data center dream died quiet, the way a lot of big promises do around here—somebody else's vision that didn't quite fit the place we already have. But while that developer was backing out of annexation agreements, real work
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Ty's Take Every week in a county like ours somebody wraps a vehicle around a tree or a guardrail on one of these state routes, and every week we run the names and the details because that's what happened and people need to know. But what
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Ty's Take The obits this week remind you that Hatch loses people steady—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, Timothy—names that belonged to families who worked these fields and knew the valley when it was smaller and the chile harvest meant something different than it does now. But there&
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Ty's Take The men and women who run schools and water associations and county services up this way don't make the news much until something shifts—a principal moves on, a budget request lands on a commissioner's desk, a rule gets written that ripples
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Ty's Take The data center fight keeps getting messier—first Missoula pumps the brakes with a moratorium, then Quantica throws its weight behind a county lawsuit that's got people fired up. Meanwhile, the rest of us are trying to figure out what this boom actually means
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Ty's Take A hundred years on this earth and still somebody you want to give a ride to—that's the kind of thing that sticks with you in a town like this. These two folks are living proof that Sweet Grass County doesn't use
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Ty's Take You notice something when you read down today's calendar—the rodeos are packed, the Big Give teams are fanned out across town with real work to do, and out at Trotter's place there's still somebody breeding horses like there'
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Ty's Take When a week's worth of headlines sits somewhere between a centennial school celebration and charges that belong in a courtroom, you're looking at the real texture of a small county—the part nobody puts on the chamber brochure. Lincoln School honoring its
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Ty's Take Diane's boy opening Bodhini's is the kind of story that tells you something true about Silver City—how a place holds onto people even after they're gone, and how the next generation decides what's worth keeping. Meanwhile, the