Chama Valley & Abiquiú Daily Digest Monday, August 17, 2026
Ty's Take
Word came down that somebody's been walking around town with a machete that isn't exactly official county business, which is the kind of thing that gets people talking at Bode's and reminds you that even up here, where most folks still know their neighbors three generations back, you can't assume anything about who's carrying what or why. Meanwhile, over in Española they broke ground on an amphitheater in Martinez's name, which is the sort of monument that makes you think about what sticks around after a person's gone, whether it's concrete and seats or the way people remember you when the work gets done. Around here we tend to mark time by the land and the water and who kept their word, so a college remembering one of its own feels like the right kind of keeping score. But that machete business—that's the kind of loose thread that doesn't just get tucked back in.
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