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Ty's Take Bad week for the county when a state party treasurer ends up in custody over a fatal hit-and-run, and you've got to wonder how many conversations at Holloman and out in the ranching country are starting with that same disbelief. Meanwhile the
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Ty's Take Looks like somebody around here finally decided to take housing seriously. West Plains pushing through that resolution to stimulate new projects, paired with concrete moves—a ready-mix plant headed to Willow Springs, infrastructure money flowing in for weather radar and water crossings—suggests the county&
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Ty's Take The city council's wrestling match with the budget always comes down to the same hard truth: Truth or Consequences runs on hot water and hope. Utility fees carry more weight here than the property tax base ever will, which means every summer when the
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Ty's Take Early morning fires hit twice this week—once in town at the Furniture Gallery, once out in the brush near Highway 90—which around here is usually a reminder that Silver City sits in two different worlds at once. Downtown, we've got the galleries
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of relief that comes when Beartooth Pass opens back up—not just for the tourists who can finally make the run to Yellowstone the way they planned it, but for those of us who live here and measure the seasons
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Ty's Take There's a lot of bureaucratic machinery humming along this week—comprehensive plans, septic rules, grant applications, rebate deadlines sliding up to August first—and it's easy to dismiss it all as the usual county business that happens whether anybody's paying
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Ty's Take Most weeks in July, the valley empties out a little—folks heading to the mountains to escape the heat, or down to visit family across the line in Juárez. The obits page tells you who stayed, who made it through another season tending pecan trees or
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Ty's Take Summer at the lake always brings the same mix—new roller coasters and real estate signs alongside the ambulance calls and traffic accidents that come with season. This week's pair of serious crashes on Ivy Bend and 54 reminds us that while we'
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Ty's Take Look, somebody in this town got invited to Travis and Taylor's wedding, and that's the kind of thing that matters around here—not because of who they are, but because weddings still mean something in Deming. You show up, you bring a
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Ty's Take A former militia leader admitting to child sex abuse, closing arguments in a nursing home case that left families angry and grieving, and the kind of slow summer news cycle that usually means people are too busy living their lives to read much—that's
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Ty's Take Couple of our kids made the Northwest College Honor Roll this semester, which means they're carrying Big Timber's name up to Powell and holding their own in the classroom—worth noting in a county where half the seniors head straight to work
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Ty's Take Politics moves slow in these mountains, which is probably why nobody's in any hurry to settle the term-limits question—Conejos County commissioners are kicking it to the voters and calling it democracy, which it is, though it also sounds like a way to