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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 93° Sunny · Tonight 60° Clear · Saturday 86° Partly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take There's no easy way through a drowning death, and the body camera footage released
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Ty's Take Small towns get by on the things that work, and the Houston Fire Department's decision to add a UTV to the fleet makes the kind of practical sense that doesn't need much defending. Out here where a lot of your calls come
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Ty's Take Michelle Renee Sanders passed this week, and if you knew her around Doña Ana County, you knew somebody who actually showed up. The Bulletin's piece doesn't give us much beyond the basics, but that's how it goes sometimes with obits,
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Ty's Take The Friends of Garnett are gathering Friday, which is the kind of thing that keeps a county seat honest when everything else pulls people apart. Garnett Lake sits just outside town, a place where locals take their kids to fish and where the park service has
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Ty's Take There's not much news rolling across the desk this morning, which gives us a moment to notice what's happening in the culture around us. Taylor Swift's new album announcement isn't local, but it landed here the same way
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of morning when the Chama rises fast and water finds places it shouldn't, and you learn pretty quick whether the infrastructure holding things together was built with the next hundred-year event in mind. The flooding that caught
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Ty's Take Wilmot Collins came up through war and politics in places most of us will never see, and now he's taking that story on the road through Montana. A former mayor of Helena who fled civil conflict in Africa before making his way here and
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Ty's Take The Montana Stockgrowers Association convention down in Billings next month will draw the usual crowd of outfit owners, feed salesmen, and state ag officials, but this year's gathering matters more than most. Cattle prices have been playing ping-pong for two years straight, input
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Ty's Take Halloween's coming up and the Valley Courier's got the seasonal spirit, which is fine enough for early October. But what strikes me is how we've built this whole American mythology around being scared of our own history. Haunted houses and
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Ty's Take There's something about a Thursday night volleyball match that reminds you why small towns keep showing up for each other, win or lose. The Wildcats took down Capitan in what the log calls a nail-biter, and sure enough, that's the kind
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Ty's Take Most days around here you don't notice the power lines until something goes wrong with them, which is why that October 14th outage notice deserves a real look at your calendar. Planned maintenance beats emergency repairs every time, but it's the kind
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Ty's Take The high school volleyball team's got their eyes on next season already, which is the right kind of thinking when you're rebuilding. Over at the school, folks are planning ahead instead of dwelling on what didn't land this year, and