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Ty's Take Sue Ray taught forty-five years at Chief Charlo and nobody had to wonder why—that's the kind of tenure you don't rack up unless you actually show up for kids, day in and day out, through all the changes a half-century brings
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Ty's Take That traffic stop out on the highway wasn't random—it never is. A deputy knows the feel of things, knows when something's off, and when that instinct pays off with a major drug seizure in Conejos County, it reminds you that the
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Ty's Take Crys Matthews is coming to Society Hall, and if you've been paying attention to what's happening in music and politics these days, you know that matters. The folk singer's been building a reputation as one of the few artists willing
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Ty's Take Eight hundred people showing up to a Howell County Extension meeting says something worth paying attention to—that's not a crowd chasing novelty, that's neighbors who still believe the information matters. The Farm & Home Show coming up in two weeks will
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Ty's Take Fire season came early to the Gila this year, and those red flag warnings stacked back-to-back mean the Forest Service isn't taking chances with the wind patterns rolling through. When you've got brush that dry and ridgelines that exposed, even a careless
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Ty's Take Road work on the pass is never great timing, but May's when it has to happen—weather window closes fast up there. What catches the eye this week, though, is how many of these stories circle back to the same thing: people in this
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Ty's Take Three men who spent their lives in Doña Ana County—George Jackson at 70, Paul Lawrence at 84, Timothy Hourigan—are gone this week, and that's the kind of loss that settles different depending on who they were to you. The housing market'
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's going to pack the lake harder than most years, and that tow report ought to worry anybody who spends time out there—nearly 200 rescues in a season tells you people are running fuel tanks empty, running boats they don'
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Ty's Take Saturday's free pet adoption event at DAGSHIP is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town where people are usually focused on making ends meet, but it matters more than it sounds. A lot of folks around Luna County can't
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write the police blotter story, but it's the one that matters most some days—especially up here where you know half the people involved, directly or through blood. A vehicle theft that gets blamed on addiction isn't just a
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Ty's Take Michael Dougherty's been the district attorney here long enough that most folks have forgotten he ever had to run for the job. That's usually when a prosecutor knows he's doing something right—when the position stops feeling like politics and
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of Thursday afternoon energy in a town like this—when the weather breaks just enough that people start remembering there's life to be lived beyond keeping the heat on, and suddenly you've got a comedy playing