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Ty's Take The rain from that hurricane system knocked out a couple of highways and left folks counting their blessings, but the real puzzle sitting in front of Grant County right now is how a screwworm showed up here in the first place. That's the kind
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Ty's Take The fire department's open house this month gives folks a chance to do something we don't do enough around here: say thanks to people who show up at three in the morning because your house is burning or your kid stopped breathing.
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Ty's Take Seems a fox got into somebody's henhouse again, which is the kind of problem that never really goes away around here no matter how many generations pass or how many new subdivisions go up. Meanwhile, the county's been placing a monument for
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Ty's Take Winter's already shouldering its way in, and you can see it in the state parks switching their schedules down here in south-central Montana. It's that hinge moment where the summer push of tourists thins out and the roads start getting tricky,
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Ty's Take That river running high last week reminded us why water moves everything around here, and not just the San Juan when it swells past its banks. PAWSD's looking at rate increases and budget cuts to plug a hole that won't appear until
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Ty's Take Hezzie Gibson made it to 92, which on the Pajarito Plateau means you saw this town build itself from scratch, watched the Lab grow into something that changed the whole trajectory of northern New Mexico, and knew what mattered when the noise died down. The obits
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 71° Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny · Tonight 51° Mostly Clear · Saturday 75° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Wildfire warnings, new amusement park renderings, a sewer problem getting solved
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of grace that shows up when a place takes care of its own, and we saw plenty of it this week around Texas County. A nurse who's spent four decades at Texas County Memorial Hospital watching over her
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Ty's Take Kids heading back to school means parents are running the checklist: new clothes, supplies, and now here in Deming, free vaccines courtesy of the health department. It's the kind of thing that doesn't make headlines until somebody's child gets sick
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Ty's Take The water's coming down hard from the high country, and anybody who's lived through a spring runoff up here knows that means watching the Chama like a hawk and keeping the kids back from the banks. Northern New Mexico's getting
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Ty's Take When the Rimrocks need cleaning up, it takes rope work and grit, and that's exactly what our firefighters gave the rocks this week rappelling down to cover graffiti that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Same week we lost some
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Ty's Take The mining dispute up at Nye and Columbus keeps grinding on while East Boulder settles, which tells you something about how fractured things have gotten in the hardrock business around here. Strikes that split operations down the middle usually mean nobody's quite satisfied enough