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Ty's Take The Grant County Fair opening this week means you'll see the usual mix out at the fairgrounds, families who've been coming for generations alongside newcomers who still can't believe a place this small puts on a show this good. But
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Ty's Take Light snow, low water, fewer visitors—that's the trinity that hits this valley every couple years, and this season it's all three at once. The Arkansas isn't running the kind of volume that brings the rafters and kayakers who keep
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Ty's Take When a funeral home loses its license, that's a failure at the most intimate level of community service. The state revocation in Phelps and Dent counties strikes at something people have to trust absolutely, whether they're planning ahead or standing in the
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Ty's Take The commissioners have their hands full this week, working through a slope repair on County Road 500 while fielding a tourism pitch from the lodgers' association and listening to questions about how visitor dollars get spent around here. It's the kind of balancing
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Ty's Take The Lab's got a new food contractor, and that's worth noticing up here where LANL's decisions ripple through everything else. Wolf & Mermaid Enchanted Cafe, a local outfit, beat out the bigger vendors for the cafeteria and beverage services, which
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On the Water TodayToday 76° Mostly Cloudy · Tonight 66° Mostly Cloudy · Saturday 79° Chance Rain ShowersSources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Morgan County's got enough on its plate without this. A murder suspect sitting in custody now facing additional charges for sexual exploitation
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Ty's Take Most days in a county this size you get the usual run of it, weather and school board meetings and somebody's prize heifer. Then a Wednesday comes along and the patrol pulls two kids out of the dirt south of Licking, and up in
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Ty's Take Summer's wrapping up fast, and you can feel it in how quick the calendar turns to school stuff around here. Free vaccines for the kids, the fair coming with real entertainment this year, and the new Wildcats roster getting introduced, all happening right now
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Ty's Take When a slow week hits the Chama Valley and Abiquiú country, the obits tell you what kind of place this is. These are the names that built the land grants, worked the ranches through hard winters, raised families in villages where everybody knows everybody, and kept
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Ty's Take The drought's got teeth this year, and you can see them everywhere from Creede to here. A yearling bear working through town trash, voluntary fishing closures on stretches of the Rio Grande that folks depend on, and the kind of pressure on water that
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Ty's Take Thirteen arrests in a narcotics operation might sound like a big number until you realize how small a valley really is, and how far the tentacles of this stuff reach when you start pulling the thread. The Alamosa County Sheriff's Office and their partners
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Ty's Take The fair's open, the Kellys are back in the spotlight, and somebody's finally serious about what we do with Bonito Lake, which around here means the conversation about water just got a lot less theoretical. You can feel it this time of