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Ty's Take The McCauley Springs Fire sitting at 77 percent contained as the long Fourth of July weekend wrapped up—that's the number that matters most on the plateau right now, and it's the one that'll stick with folks here longer than
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend at the lake came in hot this year, and not just because of the fireworks. A severe storm system rolled through during the holiday rush, knocking out power to thirty thousand people and leaving behind the kind of damage that'll
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Ty's Take The Fourth comes early to Houston this year, which means the Grand around the square fills up before lunch and stays that way through the fireworks—that's just how it works when you've got a county the size of Rhode Island and
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Ty's Take Fire took two people out of La Mesilla last week, the kind of thing that hits different up here where your nearest help is twenty minutes away by truck and your neighbor might be the only ladder you've got. Meanwhile, down valley someone'
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Ty's Take A woman out in western Montana got taken by people who knew exactly how to sound trustworthy over a screen, and now she's doing the hard work of telling other people what to watch for—which is the kind of thing that matters more
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Ty's Take There's something about a town that still wants to mark its history—not just live in it, but stand up and say, here's what we remember, here's who we are. The Gateway Freedom Monument going up says something about Alamogordo
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Ty's Take Independence Day's coming in hot, and you can already feel the county shifting into that celebratory gear—the Optimist Club's duck race, Ha Ha Tonka out at Whetstone Boys Ranch, the usual backyard cookouts and fireworks that'll light up the
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Ty's Take Small towns live for their Independence Days—that parade down Main Street is half nostalgia, half permission to remember why the place matters—but this year Truth or Consequences is watching something else unfold at the same time. The data center fight is real, and it&
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Ty's Take Fire's got the whole northern spine of the county tied up tight—NM 59 dark, the Winston area burning hot enough to expand the evacuation zone down toward Mogollon, and the Sacaton fire handed off to a Type 3 team, which means this thing&
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Ty's Take Fire season's here early and tight, water's running low even before the heat hits hardest, and somebody wants to turn Chaffee County into a server farm—all while we're about to close the offices and light off fireworks. The Fourth
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Ty's Take You can read through the budget meetings and the power outage plans and the workforce housing vote and see the bones of a town trying to hold itself together while the heat turns up. Council greenlit property purchases for workforce housing the same week the county
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Ty's Take Robert Trujillo was 47 when he died, and Casey Luster was 32, and that's the kind of year we're having up here on the plateau—the kind where you go to the store and run into someone's kid grown up,