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Ty's Take There's a Frijoles Fire burning 11,335 acres in the Jemez with nine percent containment, which in this town means everybody's watching the weather and checking evacuation zones whether they'll admit it or not. We've got long memories
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Ty's Take Road work in Laclede County took a serious turn this week when a MoDOT crew member got hurt on the job, a reminder that the folks maintaining these highways aren't just out there fighting weeds and filling potholes. It's real work with
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 94° Sunny · Tonight 73° Partly Cloudy then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms · Wednesday 88° Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly CloudySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take A twelve-year-old kid
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Ty's Take Man shoots a drone out of the sky over his property, and suddenly we're living in times that would've seemed like science fiction twenty years back. Used to be your biggest privacy worry was a neighbor with binoculars. Now you've
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Ty's Take There's a reason chile talk heats up around here come late summer, and it's not just the crop itself. These northern cultivars we've grown for generations aren't decoration or nostalgia, they're what held families through winters
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Ty's Take You don't get many days around here when the news lands so hard on both sides at once. We've got a man in federal custody for preying on vulnerable women at a shelter, another locked up six years for firing on utility
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande commissioners made the right call this week, and you can bet the reasoning had everything to do with water. Data centers are thirsty operations, and around here that's not an abstract problem, it's the difference between keeping your ditch
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Ty's Take You can tell something's shifting out at the high school when a volleyball team starts talking about culture the way you'd talk about a crop that needs tending. The girls at AHS aren't just chasing wins this season, they'
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Ty's Take Nine years is a long time for anybody to run, and Douglas County law enforcement finally caught up with a woman who'd been wanted all that time. It's the kind of story that reminds you how small these communities really are, how
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Ty's Take City hall spending three and a half million under budget in a year when water levels at Elephant Butte stayed low and county revenues came in tight tells you something about how this town's learning to operate. Nobody here expects boom times anymore, and
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Ty's Take The Silver City council got through their budget scrape this week without the kind of public bloodletting that usually follows money votes around here, which either means folks are tired of fighting or the arguments happened behind closed doors where they always do. Either way, the
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Ty's Take The geothermal project at Monarch Pass keeps hitting speed bumps, which shouldn't surprise anyone who's watched water politics play out in this valley for the last fifty years. Dave Held's been pushing this thing hard, and there's real