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Ty's Take A kid nearly drowns at the lake, and instead of a tragedy, this community shows up—boat captains cutting engines, strangers diving, someone's quick thinking with CPR. That's the kind of story that reminds you why people stay in places like this,
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Ty's Take There's not much gentle about what shows up in a county paper some weeks—a child abuse indictment, a DWI, an arrest in Plato, a couple of folks hurt when a deer stepped into the road at the wrong moment. But then you flip
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Ty's Take Sam Neill's passing at 78 reminds you that the ones who made you want to believe in dinosaurs walking the earth again aren't getting any younger. He had that rare gift—could make you believe he was terrified and competent at the
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Ty's Take The Chama's running cold and clear this time of year, which is about the only thing a lot of folks around here want to think about come July—never mind the heat or whatever trouble's brewing in town. We've got
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Ty's Take The frost that took out thousands of apples across western Montana this spring is the kind of loss that doesn't make the evening news but gets talked about at every coffee shop from here to Missoula—farmers who've spent years building something
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Ty's Take That quote about consequences—somebody was talking about water, or they should've been. Out here you don't get to say much without the Rio Grande listening, and every word about "doing nothing" carries weight in a place where doing nothing
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Ty's Take The Roswell Record going dark is the kind of thing that sticks with you in this business—not because it's shocking anymore, but because you know exactly which newsroom emptied out and which stories won't get told next week. Small papers in
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Ty's Take Sunday afternoon brought two separate wrecks to our roads within hours of each other—one near Norwood, another involving a local teenager—and if that stretch of pavement didn't already have your attention, it should now. We've had enough close calls on
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Ty's Take Free sports physicals for all Tiger student athletes—that's the kind of thing that sounds simple until you're the parent trying to scrape together a couple hundred dollars before your kid can suit up. Sierra County's not exactly flush with
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Ty's Take Planning documents approved, fire crews still working the Sacaton, schools preparing for next year—the machinery of a small county keeps turning whether anybody's paying attention or not. What matters is that Silver City's council sat down and mapped out where this
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Ty's Take Word gets around fast when our writers make the shortlist. Three finalists from the region in a statewide contest is the kind of thing that reminds you there's more ink flowing through these valleys than most people realize—folks who've settled here
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July parade committee's already thinking eight months ahead, which is either the mark of good planning or a sign that winter's got us all restless—probably both. Nothing wrong with sketching out next year's route and float