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Ty's Take We've had three accidents in two days across the county—a teenager gone in Laclede, serious injuries on the lake at dawn, another pair hurt down in Miller—and the heat advisory isn't doing anybody any favors when tempers run short and
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Ty's Take Spencer Fordin's move over to Alamogordo is the kind of quiet shift you don't always notice until somebody's desk sits empty. He's been around these papers long enough to know what small-town journalism asks of you—the
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Ty's Take We're heading into the Fourth of July with the nation's 250th birthday on the horizon next year, which means someone in town is already thinking about what Billings does when we mark a quarter-millennium. That's the kind of thing
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Ty's Take Seventy-five years back, this paper was running stories about a world still getting used to the atomic age—Trinity had been dust for a year, and Alamogordo was trying to figure out what it meant to live downwind of that kind of history. Fast forward
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Ty's Take Marshall Ray Miller, Logan Dwain-Day Tarleton, William "Bill" Flood, Delberta Williams, Kieth Reese—five names in the obits this week, which is how you measure a stretch of time out here, the folks who knew the roads and the seasons and which neighbor
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Ty's Take Fire season's arrived early in the Gila, and that smoke hanging over the ridges isn't something to ignore. The Sacaton Fire's still in the wilderness country where it can run, but Red Flag Warnings tell you the conditions are primed
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Ty's Take You know it's spring in Red Lodge when Broadway starts looking like a construction zone and the city has to start telling people where they can't park. The Dead Swede project—that's the old hotel getting a long-overdue facelift—
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Ty's Take The Red Ryder Rodeo coming up over the Fourth makes you remember what this town was before the hot springs became a destination and everybody's second address. You'll see working stock contractors and families who've been doing this for generations,
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a local maker decides to turn creativity into commerce, especially in a town where most of us still think of economy in terms of what grows in the ground or what the university brings in. These plushie artisans are
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend's coming in hot around here—literally, with the heat index and the fireworks talk that always follows—but before anybody's loading up the boat with coolers and sparklers, take a hard look at that Highway Patrol warning about
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands on a Tuesday like most bad news does, and it lands harder here than it does in Santa Fe. Deming's been living on borrowed water for years—the aquifer doesn't care what the governor declares,
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Ty's Take There's a hard reckoning coming to this country, and you can feel it in three stories running today—a crash that burned timber, a federal rule that'll remake how we use the backcountry, and a shooting in Chimayó that left somebody dead