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Ty's Take Clare Villemez spent seventy-some years in this valley, which means he watched the Mesilla grow from something you could cross in an afternoon to what it is now—still recognizable if you know where to look, but fundamentally changed by time and people moving in.
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Ty's Take One car, one moment, one family torn apart on a Camden County road—and somewhere tonight, people who knew this Illinois woman are trying to make sense of why she was here and why she isn't anymore. These accidents don't come with
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch dying at 41 hits different when you're in a place like Deming where everybody knows somebody who works with their hands for a living. The man was a competitor—twice a Cup champion, relentless, the kind of driver who made enemies because
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Ty's Take An Abiquiú man walks out of a courtroom acquitted, a shoplifter runs from the law down roads most of us know by heart, and somewhere in those northern briefs is the small machinery of how things actually work up here—who got hired, who's
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Ty's Take There's something about a horse ranch opening on the edge of town that reminds you why people stick around Billings, especially when it's built on the idea that animals can help heal what ails us. Horse Spirits Healing at Creekside Ranch isn&
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Ty's Take The art crowd that's been drifting into Alamosa over the past decade isn't here by accident—there's something about a high valley town with cheap rent, good light, and a college that doesn't ask too many questions that
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Ty's Take The arrests log, the training drill across county lines, and Doug Turner's column about staying committed—they're all part of the same story in a town like this. We've got people who show up, who put on uniforms and train
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Ty's Take Seems like Friday had teeth this week—three serious wrecks scattered across the county, the kind that remind you how fast things can go wrong on these roads, especially when you're distracted or pressing your luck. Meanwhile, there's good news on the
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Ty's Take The Forestry Division's decision to push seedlings into the burn zones makes sense on paper—replant what the fire took, stabilize the soil, move forward. But anyone who's walked those blackened ridges above Hillsboro knows that fire in this country doesn'
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's still eating landscape up there, and that June 13 blowup reminds us why this country demands respect—and why we can't afford to be casual about what happens in those canyons above town. Fire doesn't care much
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Ty's Take Town council's moving on those old Wyndham properties, and that's the kind of real estate shuffle that either fixes something broken or creates new problems—depends who you ask and what gets built there. For years those parcels sat half-empty, bleeding
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Ty's Take Offshore racing season out here brings the best and worst of lake culture into sharp focus—the skill and speed that draw thousands to watch, and the split-second decisions that separate a good day from a tragedy. Two separate powerboat crashes during last weekend'