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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still to live with the kind of doubt that settles into a small county when nobody knows what happened to one of its own. The charges against three people in the Tory Sanders death,
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up and somebody's got to think about it, which apparently is the job of a radio station on a Wednesday morning. Look, it's not a bad instinct—out here we've got a lot
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Ty's Take Election season always hits different up here in the high country, where most folks are too busy with spring work to pay much attention to what's happening down in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. But when a gubernatorial ticket starts mapping out its route through
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Ty's Take There's something worth paying attention to in that Yellowstone County zoning hearing coming up—a mental health facility proposed near Laurel, which means the county's wrestling with how to serve people who need help while keeping neighbors comfortable with the answer. That&
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Ty's Take The fly-in bringing pilots and car restorers to town this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people choose to stay in places like this—or come back to them. You get ranchers' kids standing next to vintage Corvettes, small-town
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are either out working the land or getting their summer events squared away. We've got an author-filmmaker coming through the library and Manassa gearing up for their Pioneer Days 5K—the kind
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Ty's Take Screwworms in Lea County and car seats in Otero—not the kind of headlines that grab national attention, but they're the ones that keep a rural county breathing easy or holding its breath. The state's moving fast on the screwworm case, which
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Ty's Take Two of our neighbors made the trip to Indianapolis and came home with some hardware from the National Beta Club competition—the kind of thing that doesn't make the national news but means everything in a house where somebody's kid stayed up
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Ty's Take When the emergency services director tells you we're on our own with FEMA funding, it lands different in a county where the Rio Grande is both lifeline and wildcard, where monsoon season can turn a dry wash into a real problem in an hour,
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Ty's Take A Grant County jury's guilty verdict, a governor's provocative remark that'll echo through every diner from here to Deming, and a special meeting about the museum—three stories that probably feel unconnected until you live here long enough to understand
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Ty's Take You notice right away that half the news this week circles back to the same hard truth: we're living in a landscape that's becoming less forgiving. The forest health tour up on Cade Mountain, the screwworm warnings creeping north, the Colorado River
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Ty's Take Clarence Villemez spent seventy-eight years in this valley—long enough to watch the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande get crowded out by subdivisions, long enough to see what irrigation built and what thirst takes away. The obituary doesn't say much, the way they