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Ty's Take Every August when the heat's sitting on Deming like a cast-iron skillet, somebody around here remembers that kids don't stop needing pencils and paper just because their families are stretched thin. Stuff The Bus has become one of those quiet traditions
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Ty's Take There's something about a man on horseback that stays with a place long after he's gone—the way he moved through these valleys, who he stopped to talk to at Bode's, which high meadows he knew by heart. When folks
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Ty's Take When a small city loses two teenagers in a drunk-driving crash the same week it buries its ordinary dead, when predators prey on the homeless and vulnerable, when old buildings come down and new leaders take the helm—you see a town all at once.
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Ty's Take The Mariachi Spectacular coming up is exactly the kind of thing that keeps this valley tethered to something real while everything else spins faster every year. You can't fake that music—those tight harmonies and that particular ache in the trumpets—and you can&
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town fills its calendar these days—kite festivals and anniversary celebrations mixed in with district golf tournaments and economic think pieces. Maybe that's just the rhythm of a place trying to hold onto its identity
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Ty's Take You don't have to look far around Howell County to see what college athletics has become—a money game where tennis rackets get shelved so somebody else can chase a scholarship check. Missouri State-West Plains sits in a town that understands hard choices,
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire got some rain yesterday, which around these parts counts as news worth noting—not because a few afternoon thunderstorms solve anything, but because in this corner of New Mexico, we've learned to mark every drop. Meanwhile, the Tour of the Gila
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Ty's Take Genealogy's having a moment everywhere, but it hits different in a place like Pagosa where half the families have roots going back five generations and the other half arrived last Tuesday looking for a second home. The Pagosa Peak Genealogical Society's May
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Ty's Take Drowning, fire, assaults, and a pedestrian hit hard enough to send someone to the hospital—that's not the weekend most lake towns want to read about come Monday morning. What matters now is that whoever was working that dock when the boat went up
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Ty's Take Property damage calls, police checkpoints ramping up, and a charter school wrestling with its identity—that's the kind of week that reminds you Deming's at a crossroads between growth and growing pains. The state's got May checkpoints rolling through town,
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Ty's Take Every fall the question comes up the same way—usually over coffee at Bode's or leaning against a truck bed somewhere between Chama and Coyote—and it never gets settled because it was never meant to. Best chile and salsa in the valley isn&
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Ty's Take There's something about May that reminds you the work of this region gets done by people willing to show up—whether it's the nurses pulling double shifts at Billings Clinic and St. Vincent, the college grads walking across a stage after grinding