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Ty's Take That generator fire over in the garage is a reminder that come winter—or whenever the power flickers out around here—half the folks who pull one out of the shed have no business operating it indoors. We run these stories every few years and people
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Ty's Take Three of our county's veterinarians are heading out on an Honor Flight, and that's worth noting in a place where we still understand what it means when somebody steps up to serve. You don't have to look far in Texas
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Ty's Take Violence over nothing—a cigarette, a workplace argument that turns into hands around somebody's throat—tells you something about the pressure cooker this country has become. You can blame the heat, blame close quarters in small towns, blame whatever you want, but when two
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Ty's Take The West End water treatment plant creeping toward the finish line says something about this city that doesn't always get said out loud—we're still growing, still betting on ourselves, still willing to spend the money to handle what comes next. That
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Ty's Take The Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo coming back around means the whole county gets to exhale for a weekend—the ranchers, the business folks downtown, the kids who've been waiting since last summer to see the bucking stock roll in. That rodeo grounds beside
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Ty's Take The Morphew trial waiting until 2027 feels like something this valley needs to finally put down—not forget, but lay to rest proper—and maybe that's the only way forward when a case has lived in the headlines longer than some kids have been
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Ty's Take County law enforcement across the region had a couple rough days this week—drug busts down in Douglas and a shooting situation over in Carter that ended with somebody in custody. These aren't the kind of headlines that surprise anybody who works in a
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Ty's Take Summer holidays bring out the best in a small town—the kind of ordinary magic that doesn't make the statewide news but holds a community together. Between the pancake breakfasts, the Fourth of July gatherings down at Elephant Butte, and the steady work on
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Ty's Take A health fair in late June and a fire in early July—seems like the kind of week that reminds you Silver City's always operating on two tracks at once. On one end of the calendar, folks are lining up at the resource fair
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Ty's Take We've had enough dry years up here that talk of a strong El Niño pattern tends to get folks' attention real quick—especially anyone with skin in the water game, which in Chaffee County means pretty much everybody. A wet winter and spring
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Ty's Take Wildlife's been wandering down from the mountains more than usual this summer, and whether it's bighorn sheep checking out Pajarito Acres or deer browsing the fruit stand at Mari Mac, the message seems clear enough—the plateau's getting crowded. Between
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Ty's Take When the state police roll up with an arrest on a shooting case, it settles something in a county this size—at least for now. Troop G covers a lot of ground down here, and they don't move fast unless they've got