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Ty's Take A bus driver who kept her head when a child's airway closed up during a run, a county still sorting through what work looks like in 2025, and a traveling memorial that reminds us why ordinary people matter when everything hangs in the balance.
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who spent most of his life around the Mesilla Valley, passed this week at 89. The obituary doesn't say much, the way they usually don't, but around here we know what those years meant. They meant watching this valley
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Ty's Take The Chamber's got a new director talking up local business, which is fine work and necessary work in a town that's had to reinvent itself more than once. You build an economy on what you've got, not what you wish
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Ty's Take When a man gets hauled in front of a judge on threatening charges and the judge decides he stays locked up without bail, that's a message about how serious things have gotten, and it hits different in a place this size where everybody knows
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Ty's Take Capital High kids wrestling with public lands policy from a rancher's angle beats the usual classroom civics exercise, because they're not debating abstractions. They're sitting across from people whose livelihoods hang on what Washington decides about grazing leases and water
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Ty's Take Primary season came early this year, and the numbers rolling in from Conejos County tell you something about where people's heads are right now. Turnout matters more than any single name on a ballot, and around here voters tend to show up when they
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Ty's Take Town council's got their budget worksheets spread out, which means the real conversations are about to happen, the kind where priorities get sorted from wishes. Every dollar Alamosa allocates this year ripples through the whole valley, from street maintenance to whether we've
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Ty's Take Twenty-five years is long enough for a generation to grow up not knowing what September 11th actually felt like, which makes today's memorials around town matter more than they might seem at first glance. We've got folks here with direct connections
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Ty's Take Homecoming week lands different when you're in a town this size. The schools go half-day Friday, which means somebody's already thought through the logistics of getting kids to the stadium, and the Zizzers swimmers have already given the whole week some
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Ty's Take Twenty million dollars for water resilience sounds like the kind of news that ought to settle a few nerves around here, but anybody who's watched Elephant Butte's levels for the last decade knows money alone doesn't fill a lake when
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Ty's Take The burro race is back on Boston Hill this weekend, which means Silver City's still got enough grit and humor to laugh at itself, and that matters more than you'd think when you're sitting in the middle of conversations about
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Ty's Take Fat bears getting fatter, tomato warriors lobbing produce at each other, and a star party coming up Friday night, which means somebody around here actually remembers what the sky looks like when the Front Range light pollution stays down valley where it belongs. This is the