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Ty's Take Part three of the planning editorial, housing action plans, and now a "Housing Action Plan" open for review—and that's before we even get to the voters hollering about cost of living. Sounds like the county's finally feeling the pressure
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Ty's Take Housing keeps coming up at council meetings, and David Hampton's letter nails why it matters here more than most places. This county's tied to Lab growth in ways a lot of towns aren't, which means when the Lab expands, housing
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Ty's Take Lebanon's been through enough rough patches that most folks around here don't flinch easy, but a stabbing investigation puts everybody on edge regardless. The police department's doing the work they do, and the rest of us wait for the facts
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Ty's Take A bead shop opening in Las Cruces might not sound like front-page news, but anyone who's watched this town grow knows what it means. We've lost a lot of the old retail character along Main and Mesquite, watched small storefronts sit
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 89° Mostly Sunny · Tonight 61° Mostly Clear · Sunday 92° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Two motorcycle crashes in as many days around here have left one man dead and
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Ty's Take Drought years test what a county's really made of, and we're in one now. The "extreme" tag covering most of Texas County isn't just a weather service classification, it's a daily reality for anybody running cattle
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Ty's Take A bead shop opening in Las Cruces might not sound like much if you're not paying attention, but out here we know how these things work. The kind of small retail that takes root in a bigger town nearby can pull traffic and energy
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Ty's Take A pumpkin patch opening up over in West Plains might seem like small potatoes to folks outside the county, but anybody who's got kids or grandkids knows what it means around here come October. It's the kind of thing that gets families
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Ty's Take School's coming back and the usual stuff gets dusted off: vaccine clinics, fair schedules, reminders to watch your speed in the zones where kids walk. Nothing glamorous about any of it, but every parent in Luna County knows these three things matter more than
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Ty's Take There's a thread running through this week's blotter that ought to make anybody who works retail or runs a business around here think twice about locking up at night. Two separate incidents, both involving men acting in ways that cross from nuisance
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Ty's Take Seven school zones getting traffic safety work is the kind of unglamorous infrastructure news that doesn't make anyone's heart race, but it's exactly what a growing city like this needs to keep saying yes to. Kids walking to Roosevelt or
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Ty's Take Not much to go on with a single headline about the Sweet Grass Royals, but that's the name of the county's scholarship pageant, and if the Pioneer's got it in the paper this week then somebody just won the crown