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Ty's Take When a man who wore the badge pleads guilty, the whole valley feels it different than when somebody else does. There's a particular weight to it—the betrayal of a trust that doesn't get written back into the ledger easy, especially up
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Ty's Take When a hospital team has to improvise to save two lives at once—a mother and her newborn both fighting in the ICU—you get a reminder of what keeps this city running underneath all the talk about energy markets and downtown development. Montana Tech'
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Ty's Take Outdoor lighting codes might sound like the kind of thing that puts people to sleep at town council meetings, but out here where the sky still means something—where you can actually see stars on a clear night and the Great Sand Dunes rise up dark
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in those numbers coming to White Sands Regional Airport—a hundred and ten grand in infrastructure money that says somebody in the state capital thinks this place is worth betting on for the next chapter. Meanwhile, up in Cloudcroft and
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Ty's Take There's a quiet story buried in this week's smaller notices—the kind that doesn't make anybody's evening news but says something true about a town. Thayer's trap-neuter-return program for strays is working, which means
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Ty's Take Quiet weeks like this one remind you why small-town papers matter—not because we're chasing headlines, but because we're keeping track of who's doing what and where. The briefs column is where you find out the county commission met,
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in today's news, the kind of thing that doesn't make the front page but maybe should. We've got our library doing good work expanding what kids can do and learn, a blood drive
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Ty's Take We lost three good men this week—Thomas Riggins at ninety-five, Martin White at ninety, and Harry Spackman at forty-nine—and if you've been around the lake long enough, you probably knew at least one of them. That's the thing
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the high school and middle school—that's where we are now, and anybody pretending it's not a sign of something broken isn't paying attention. The Deming schools are installing OPENGATE screening systems, which means kids walk through
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Ty's Take Bail hearings tend to get lost in the noise of bigger court dockets, but when a prosecutor argues for no bail at all, something in the case has crossed a line that even judges take seriously. The Chimayó man in question is sitting in a cell
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Ty's Take Two colleges sending graduates out into the world the same week, a couple of major intersections getting hard looks from accident investigators, and a couple thousand women running through downtown on a Saturday morning—that's May in Billings, when the season finally turns and
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Ty's Take One traffic stop on the highway between here and the New Mexico line turned into the kind of bust that reminds you the drug trade doesn't care much about county lines or how small your town is. Sheriff's office pulled over a