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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 8,000 acres and zero containment is the only story that matters this week, and if you've lived here since Cerro Grande or watched the ash from Las Conchas settle on your roof, you already know that. The
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Ty's Take You know a town's thinking about its future when it starts paying attention to how people move through it on foot. Lebanon's got the meeting scheduled, and that's worth showing up for if you've got an opinion about
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in this valley means you saw the whole thing change, the way the river got fought over and the city grew out past the pecan orchards where his people worked. That's the kind of life you don&
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Mostly Sunny · Tonight 78° Partly Cloudy · Sunday 96° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Sunrise Beach voters passed that tax increase for a reason, and now the work
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Ty's Take A missing girl found safe, two separate wrecks that could've gone worse, and a doctor at Texas County Memorial Hospital making the kind of split-second call that reminds you why having real medical talent in a county seat matters, even one this small.
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92 in a valley where that kind of longevity means you've seen the whole arc of modern agriculture, water politics, and what happens when a town decides what it's good at and sticks with it. The obits
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Ty's Take A man from Medanales convicted on felony charges, another Santa Fe County case bringing 21 months in federal prison, a rifle pulled over an alcohol dispute at a store counter. The court docket keeps filling up the way it does in any county this size, but
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Ty's Take Summer's hanging on by its fingernails around here, and there's plenty of work left to do before the season fully turns. The county fair wrapped up another good sale, the farmers market keeps running Fridays through mid-September, and if you'
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Ty's Take You spend enough years in a high-altitude valley and you learn to look up. The stars here aren't some tourist attraction you schedule around a busy week, they're part of the rhythm, same as the seasons and the water flow down
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Ty's Take Tularosa's water emergency doesn't make the news just because the basin's dry, though God knows it is. It makes the news because somebody finally had to say it out loud, call it what it is, and ask the state for
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Ty's Take August heat's got everybody thinking the same way right now: how to stay cool and how to keep the grass from catching fire. The free pool day tomorrow and talk of burn bans down in Arkansas remind you that summer out here doesn'