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Ty's Take Ryan Williams didn't mince words this week—we're on our own when it comes to FEMA money, which means Sierra County's emergency services are running on fumes and local grit. That's the real story underneath the Texas v.
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a week where we're wrestling with water rates and a deputy's plea deal while honoring the men who survived the Bataan Death March—the kind of day-to-day stuff that actually matters in a place
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Ty's Take Highway 160 torn up again, water running short, and half the county wondering if we're going to price ourselves out of existence before the next big fire season hits—but here we are anyway, still showing up to tell our stories at the history
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez was the kind of man who showed up—to the fields at dawn, to the church on Sunday, to help a neighbor move irrigation pipe when the Rio Grande ran low. He spent his life in the Mesilla Valley doing work that doesn'
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Ty's Take Summer around the lake always brings the same tug-of-war—more tourists, more traffic, more small accidents that remind us how fast things move when the season kicks in. Between the motorcycle fatality, the Highway 54 pileup, and what sounds like it was a rough
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and this county knows something about that kind of waiting. The charges that came down this week in the Tory Sanders case—three people now facing murder counts, former lawmen facing their own reckoning—mark the
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Deming loses someone like Kyle Busch—a guy who made it to the absolute top of his sport and kept winning—it hits different than the usual celebrity news that scrolls past. But what sticks with me is that our
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Ty's Take Two dismissals in the burglary cases against a man who'd been cycling through the valley the last couple years—the kind of news that lands different depending on which side of the courthouse steps you're standing on. But what sticks is the
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Ty's Take The state fine landing on the animal shelter for that meth lab mess isn't just about one building or one bad decision—it's a reminder that repeated warnings only work if somebody actually listens, and that we all pay the price when
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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people stick around here—where else can you park a restored '57 Chevy next to a Cessna on the same stretch of ground and call it Saturday? It
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Ty's Take Primary season down here always feels like watching your neighbors decide who gets to carry their mail to the courthouse—half the valley shows up, half stays home, and everybody's got an opinion about it anyway. The returns from both counties are still preliminary,
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Ty's Take You can measure the temperature of a town by what it chooses to celebrate and what it argues about in the same week. Alamosa's getting Chase Rice and Joe Nichols for the Stampede—good news for anybody wanting a night out that doesn'