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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 89° Slight Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms · Tonight 68° Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Showers And Thunderstorms · Monday 79° Chance Showers And ThunderstormsSources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's
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Ty's Take Thirty years is a long time to keep a technical college running in a county this size, which tells you something about what Texas County Technical College has meant to folks around here. The school's been steady work, training people for jobs that actually
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which around here means she saw this valley change more than most. She was around when the chile industry was still finding its footing, when water meant everything and still does, when Hatch was smaller and quieter than it
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Ty's Take Small-town economics run on trust, and trust runs on small gestures that mostly go unnoticed until the day someone decides it doesn't anymore. That story about the customer walking out with cups and silverware instead of a refund isn't really about
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Ty's Take The city's decision to lower costs on streetlights is the kind of unglamorous work that doesn't make anybody's highlight reel, but it's exactly the kind of thing that keeps a place running when money gets tight. Billings has
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Ty's Take The Republicans are hosting a Liberty Rally, which tells you something about where the conversation sits in Alamosa County right now. These events tend to draw the same crowd, energize the same people, and leave everyone else wondering if anybody's actually listening to anybody
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Ty's Take Bennie Juarez's life, the way the paper tells it, was the kind that reminds you why you stay in a place like this. He defied expectations, which in a military town where people are constantly coming and going, means he put down roots and
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Ty's Take The Senior Resource Fair hitting town this week is the kind of thing that doesn't make noise but ought to. Most folks don't think about what comes after the paycheck stops until they're already standing at the edge of it,
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Ty's Take Screwworms in the Mimbres Valley, flood damage over in Deming, and now the Forest Service is fixing to light fires in the Pinos Altos come fall. It's the kind of week that reminds you this country doesn't sit still, and neither can
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Ty's Take Two towns sharing one valley sometimes means sharing one mess, and Salida and Buena Vista are learning that the hard way when it comes to police work. The joint SWAT arrangement falling apart isn't surprising, really, because these kind of handshake deals work fine
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Ty's Take One of our own is heading to China next month to prove what we already know: that kids coming up through Rolla schools can compete and win on any stage that matters. A former Rolla High and Rolla Technical Institute student made the cut for the
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