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Ty's Take A jury convicted Espirideon Varela this week while a cyclist ended up under a police car and the county held another meeting about fire—which tells you everything about Grant County right now. We're a place where the courts work, where accidents happen at
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Ty's Take The wolves are back in the San Juans, and the state's latest count confirms what most of us already know from the scat and the tracks and the occasional early-morning sighting—they're establishing themselves in our backcountry like they never left. That&
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Ty's Take When the power goes out across three counties and two separate accidents land people in the hospital on the same Monday morning, it's worth asking whether we're paying attention to the basics—road conditions after a storm, visibility, speed on wet pavement,
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Ty's Take Summer's finally coming to Deming, and that inflatable water park opening up is exactly the kind of thing families around here have been waiting for—cheap fun when the thermometer hits 100 and you've got kids who need somewhere to cool off
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Ty's Take Sentencing day in the valley always leaves things quieter than they should be—the kind of quiet that comes after somebody's future gets decided in a courtroom sixty miles away, and everybody who knew them has to reckon with what that means for their
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Ty's Take Two folks missing down here tends to bring the whole valley to attention—that's how it works in a county where everybody's connected by blood, water rights, or at least a couple of generations of church socials. The Antonito Police Department'
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Ty's Take Maxine Baker taught English at Alamosa High for thirty-two years, and if you went to school here anytime in the last three decades, she probably marked up something you wrote in red pen and made you better for it. The valley loses someone like that and
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Ty's Take When a gubernatorial candidate gets a cease-and-desist from a sitting president, it's worth asking what happened—and whether it matters more in a primary fight than it does to the people out here worried about water, jobs, and keeping their kids from moving to
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Ty's Take You notice the traffic alerts stacking up in the news feed, the crashes coming in from all corners of the county and just across the line into Arkansas—Saturday, Sunday, Friday, all of it. Road conditions don't change that fast; what changes is us,
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Ty's Take Silver City had itself a rough couple of days on the streets—a shooting that put a girl in the hospital, a truck that shouldn't have been moving through a crowd, the kind of incidents that stick with a town this size because everybody
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Ty's Take Slow week in the county, which this time of year usually means everybody's either fixing what broke over winter or getting ready for the season ahead. The briefs column is where you find the real texture of a place like ours—who's
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town fills its calendar when the snow's gone and the season shifts. A stress management piece for seniors, a summer reading push, a spiritual group meeting—none of it makes the state wire, but