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Ty's Take The Native Lens Symposium coming back to town in June reminds you why this corner of Colorado keeps drawing people who actually want to be here—not just pass through on the way to somewhere else. Free workshops, mentors from the film industry, a chance for
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Ty's Take Clarence Villemez worked this valley long enough to see the whole thing transform—the orchards give way to subdivisions, the water arguments get meaner every year, and the young people either leave or stay and figure out how to make it work anyway. His obit in
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend at the lake drew the usual mix—families grilling on their docks, boats lined up at the fuel pumps, the kind of weather that reminds people why they moved here or visit every year. But it also brought the kind of behavior that
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch was 41 and at the top of his sport, which is the kind of thing that stops you cold no matter what you think you know about mortality. The racing world lost one of its fiercest competitors, and the rest of us got reminded
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Ty's Take Spring's running late up here again, and the Cumbres & Toltec delays opening are hitting harder than usual because everybody's been waiting on that payroll. A tourist railroad doesn't sound like much if you're not actually living on
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a new coffee shop opens downtown in the same week the water's running mean and high across the region—it's the difference between what we're building and what we're bracing for.
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Ty's Take The Greycliff Mill's still standing, which is what matters most when a fire gets that close to a place that's been grinding grain since before most of us were born. The Grey Fire came hard enough to threaten the structure itself, but
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Ty's Take There's something about a Friday night at Society Hall that still draws people in around here, even with everything else pulling at our attention these days. Redd & The Paper Flowers coming through with Megan Burtt opening—that's the kind of show
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Ty's Take Two of the valley's oldest news voices decided this week they're stronger together than apart, which says something about where we are right now—smaller papers everywhere are figuring out that survival means consolidation, and our region's no different. But
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Ty's Take Sometimes the smallest stories tell you the most about who we are. ENMU-Ruidoso bringing in Clabaugh as athletic coordinator might look like routine staffing news, but up in those mountains where the college's been fighting to keep its footing, it matters—athletics is
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Ty's Take When a place like West Plains opens its doors to help kids who've had rough starts—adoptees without family anchors, kids needing structure and care—it's supposed to be a last resort that actually works. The stories coming out of that taxpayer-
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Ty's Take Water settled in court means money stops bleeding into lawyers' pockets, and that matters more than people realize in a county where every drop gets argued over twice before it hits the river. The affordable housing ordinance coming through and Williamsburg's audit staying