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Ty's Take The lake's been good to a lot of folks around here, and this week you can see it in the work—charter outfits making it easier for visitors to get out on the water, construction crews figuring out how to build on slopes that
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write about putting metal detectors in their kids' schools, but here we are. The Deming school board's moving ahead with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses—that's the reality of 2024, whether we like it or not—and
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Ty's Take A wild turkey got tangled in power lines up the valley this week—the kind of thing that stops being funny the moment the lights go out and you're standing in your kitchen at dinnertime trying to remember where you keep the candles. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Sue Ray taught forty-five years at Chief Charlo and nobody had to wonder why—that's the kind of tenure you don't rack up unless you actually show up for kids, day in and day out, through all the changes a half-century brings
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Ty's Take That traffic stop out on the highway wasn't random—it never is. A deputy knows the feel of things, knows when something's off, and when that instinct pays off with a major drug seizure in Conejos County, it reminds you that the
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Ty's Take Crys Matthews is coming to Society Hall, and if you've been paying attention to what's happening in music and politics these days, you know that matters. The folk singer's been building a reputation as one of the few artists willing
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Ty's Take Eight hundred people showing up to a Howell County Extension meeting says something worth paying attention to—that's not a crowd chasing novelty, that's neighbors who still believe the information matters. The Farm & Home Show coming up in two weeks will
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Ty's Take Fire season came early to the Gila this year, and those red flag warnings stacked back-to-back mean the Forest Service isn't taking chances with the wind patterns rolling through. When you've got brush that dry and ridgelines that exposed, even a careless
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Ty's Take Road work on the pass is never great timing, but May's when it has to happen—weather window closes fast up there. What catches the eye this week, though, is how many of these stories circle back to the same thing: people in this
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Ty's Take Three men who spent their lives in Doña Ana County—George Jackson at 70, Paul Lawrence at 84, Timothy Hourigan—are gone this week, and that's the kind of loss that settles different depending on who they were to you. The housing market'
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's going to pack the lake harder than most years, and that tow report ought to worry anybody who spends time out there—nearly 200 rescues in a season tells you people are running fuel tanks empty, running boats they don'
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Ty's Take Saturday's free pet adoption event at DAGSHIP is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town where people are usually focused on making ends meet, but it matters more than it sounds. A lot of folks around Luna County can't