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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher out studying how those big atmospheric river storms actually recharge groundwater in the West—that's the kind of work that matters more than most people realize when you're living on top of your water rights and watching
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Ty's Take The water district staying in Drought Stage 1, the school board wrestling with questions nobody's got easy answers to, Habitat for Humanity pushing a new housing push, and the federal government just now realizing there's a healthcare desert out here—it all
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Ty's Take Three good men from this valley in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, who made it to 70. In a town that's growing as fast as Las Cruces is, where the orchards keep giving way to subdivisions and
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Ty's Take Three powerboat incidents in one Saturday afternoon at the Shootout races, a rescue from the Community Bridge, a fatal crash on a county road—that's the kind of weekend that reminds you the lake doesn't care how many boats are registered or
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, longer still when the questions involve your own law enforcement, but Shannon County is finally getting somewhere with the Tory Sanders case—three people charged with murder, former deputies facing their own reckoning, and the kind
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up fast, and if you're still staring at a blank slate on what to get the old man, you're not alone—most of us wait until the last possible second anyway. The thing about buying
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Ty's Take Kevin Iffland's staying put as interim city administrator for now, which tells you something about how Billings operates when the real work needs doing—no rush to fill every chair, no political theater around the hiring process. This is a city that knows its
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Ty's Take Nobody in this county wakes up wanting to read about a child abuse case, but here we are—Mari Felix pleading guilty to two counts is the kind of local news that sits heavy in a small place where everybody knows everybody. The court system did
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how this valley keeps showing up for itself on a Wednesday. Ecoflight's taking people up to see what their public lands actually look like from ten thousand feet—that's the kind of clarity we need
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Ty's Take Election season's heating up early in Otero County, which means the usual parade of promises is already rolling through town—and in a military community like ours, those promises tend to land different than they do in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. A gubernatorial ticket
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Ty's Take The boil advisory lifting in Mountain View is the kind of quiet good news that doesn't make headlines but matters plenty to folks who've been boiling water for their coffee and their livestock—turns out the infrastructure stuff, the pipes and the
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Ty's Take Ryan Williams didn't sugarcoat it this week when he said Sierra County is on its own when it comes to FEMA money—and that's the kind of straight talk a county administrator has to give when the federal cupboard's bare.