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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked these fields and knew every irrigation ditch between here and Rincon, passed this week at 89. You don't see many obituaries that don't need explaining around a farming town, but his kind did. He was the water,
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, but around here we've learned patience comes with the territory when it comes to serious crimes. The arrest warrants finally issued in the Tory Sanders case represent something this county needed, whether folks believe
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Ty's Take Small towns run on the people willing to show up for both the big moments and the everyday grind, and this week we're seeing both sides of that coin. One's a feel-good distraction about a couple's wedding plans that&
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Ty's Take Fire season comes early up here, and the Forest Service closure order on Frijoles tells you the dry spell we've been running isn't finished with us yet. Those of us who've lived through years in this country know what temporary
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Ty's Take A motorcycle crash that shut down Rimrock Road is a hard reminder that summer riding season around here moves fast, and so do the consequences when things go wrong. We see these calls come through, and every time it's somebody's husband or
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Ty's Take Primary elections come and go in counties like ours, and most folks don't think much about the preliminary results until the general rolls around in the fall. But these numbers matter now because they tell us who's got momentum heading into the
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Ty's Take Heat like this in the Valley hits different when you're older and stuck inside an air-conditioned room, which is probably why someone at the senior center had the sense to plan a mercadillo for folks who need to get out and move around
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Ty's Take When a Supreme Court decision hinges on what a camera did or didn't capture, you're looking at the kind of case that haunts a small region for years. The video tossed from the Artesia newborn murder case won't disappear from
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Ty's Take The Ozarks Historic Resource Center's conversation series hitting its fifth installment with a look at modernity and tradition in this part of the country is the kind of thing that matters more than it might sound like at first. Two hundred fifty years of
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Ty's Take The Tigers came to the Turtleback tournament ready to prove something, and a dominant showing in the round robin is exactly the kind of statement a team makes when it's built right. This time of year, when the competition gets mixed and the brackets
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Ty's Take The town council's got its knives out over the budget again, which is always fun to watch when you've got one side worried about keeping the lights on and another side worried about whether we're spending enough on the things
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