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Ty's Take The school levy didn't pass, and Big Timber voters made clear they want a new direction on the board—which is their right, and it stings the way these things do when you've got kids in the system. What matters now is
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Ty's Take Two newsrooms merging into one regional voice while the city draws up contingency plans for the next power failure—that's the San Luis Valley in 2024, figuring out how to do more with less while hoping the lights stay on. The engineering pipeline story
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Ty's Take The news that CHRISTUS Health picked up top marks for safety isn't the kind of headline that makes people sit up straight, but in a town where Holloman's flight surgeons and White Sands' medical protocols set the bar pretty high, it
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Ty's Take Every ten years after the census, somebody in power gets the idea they can draw better lines than God did, and here we are again watching states take their turn at the redistricting wheel before the midterms hit. Missouri's already been through this dance—
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Ty's Take The pump track going in at Santa Clara is the kind of project that shows Silver City thinking ahead—giving kids something to do that doesn't cost much and doesn't tear up the land, which in Grant County is no small thing.
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Ty's Take You can read between the lines on a slow news day—the water conservancy talking grants and ranch management, the county patting itself on the back for a 3.2 percent unemployment rate, the school district bringing in a new middle principal. These are the stories
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez ran a life the way you're supposed to run one in a place like this—showed up, did the work, helped the neighbors who needed helping, and didn't make a fuss about any of it. The Bulletin's notice
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Ty's Take You don't often see a sitting alderman walk straight into a federal drug sting, but that's where Osage Beach finds itself this week with Bob O'Steen's arrest on cocaine distribution and weapons charges. The city moved fast with
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Ty's Take The Special Olympics athletes running their hearts out at MetraPark this week remind you why a town like Billings matters—we're big enough to host something that draws families from across the state, small enough that neighbors still show up to cheer. Meanwhile, out
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Ty's Take The county commissioners putting a DA term-limit measure on the November ballot tells you something about how they're feeling in the courthouse these days, and it's worth watching close—these aren't decisions made lightly in a place where everybody knows
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Ty's Take The federal government's lawsuit against New Mexico over the detention bill lands hard in a county that's never been shy about the complexities of border enforcement, and meanwhile Operation Desert Sweep is rounding up thirty-some accused traffickers—so you've got
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Ty's Take Three hundred West Plains High School graduates walked across that stage Friday night, and somewhere in that crowd were kids whose parents sat in those same seats twenty, thirty years ago—kids who'll stay here, kids who'll leave and come back, kids