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Ty's Take The copper mine talk never really stops around here, and another hearing on Copper Flat means another round of the same calculus we've been doing for years: what's the upside against what we might lose. Meanwhile, the city council just passed a
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town handles its pieces, and Jose Barrios's legacy moving into a new home at Aldo Leopold School tells you most of what you need to know. Barrios spent decades pulling this community toward its better
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Ty's Take Guns showing up on F Street again is the kind of headline that stops you cold in a town like this, and not because we're naive about firearms around here. This valley's got ranchers, hunters, and plenty of people who know their
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Ty's Take Somebody around here is always reading the signs, and this week they're reading onion skins and the thickness of a walking stick's bark to figure out what winter's bringing. That's the kind of forecasting that doesn't
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of week in a small town where you can feel the summer starting to let go. The Thingamajig wraps up its season, the library adds a new digital service, a sculpture garden fills with music and history, and somewhere out
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is still grinding through the Jemez at over 15,000 acres, and by now most of us on the hill have our go-bags ready and our evacuation routes memorized, which is what you do after Cerro Grande and Las Conchas taught this
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces go from a crossroads town to a city that keeps spreading across land his generation knew by name. The Bulletin's notice doesn't say much, the way those pieces
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 84° Partly Sunny · Tonight 66° Mostly Cloudy then Chance Rain Showers · Monday 83° Chance Rain Showers then Partly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take The water's been running
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Ty's Take Nothing says small-town success like coming home to work alongside the person who taught you the trade. A new veterinarian setting up shop here with their former mentor isn't just filling a business need, though Lord knows we've got cattle operations
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Ty's Take Most folks up here don't move to the Chama Valley looking for quiet, exactly, but there's a difference between the natural sounds of this country and somebody else's idea of entertainment bleeding through your walls at midnight. When someone'
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how our kids are finding their way to help when they need it most. The mental health struggles among Montana teens aren't new, and neither is the shortage of counselors and crisis lines that can actually pick
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Ty's Take Farmers market season runs through mid-September, which means Friday afternoons in Big Timber are about to look a lot like they did last summer. Local growers, honey vendors, and folks selling jams and preserves will set up their tables, and if you know this town,