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Ty's Take When an ex-miner trades his helmet for a locksmith's kit and rolls a mobile shop into Silver City, you're seeing something the old-timers understand without having to say it out loud—this town's never going to be what
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Ty's Take The Roberts levy passing by that narrow margin says something true about this county right now—we want our schools funded, we know what happens when they aren't, but we're also stretched thin enough that every bond vote feels like a conversation
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions are here, which means somebody up the chain saw the same dry conditions we're all looking at and decided it was time to get serious before July hits hard. The BLM's stage one order across six counties isn't
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Ty's Take There's a stretch in late May when the heat starts winning and folks are more likely to be found in front of a screen than out in it—the garden's planted, the summer projects haven't quite demanded full attention yet,
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend delivered what we always hope for—blue skies, happy boats, and cash registers ringing from one end of the lake to the other—but it also reminded us why this place demands respect. A stalled boat with ninety gallons still aboard, a sudden
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Ty's Take The valley's got its share of trouble this week—assault charges, drunk aggression, a fight that landed someone in the system—which tells you something about the strain that comes with summer crowding and the heat bearing down on people living close together up
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Ty's Take Zoning fights usually bore people senseless until they can't afford their rent anymore. The city council's pushback on duplexes in N3 neighborhoods says something true about how we're thinking—or not thinking—about growth in Billings. We've got
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Ty's Take Joe Martinez taking over SLV Federal Bank is the kind of continuity this valley needs right now. He's not some transplant from Denver or a suit flown in by a holding company—he's built his career here, understands what it means when
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Ty's Take We're in that stretch of an election year where every candidate with a shot at the Governor's Office comes through town telling us what New Mexico needs, and half the time they're not wrong—we do need better water management,
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Ty's Take You hear about that Norfork woman who nearly got taken by a scam, and you're glad the deputies caught it in time—that's the kind of thing that doesn't make the news until it's too late for somebody
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Ty's Take The burglary string hitting our county the last few weeks reminds you that trouble doesn't care much about population size—six thousand people means six thousand places to case, and nowhere's really too small to bother with. What matters now is whether
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Silver City turns out for Memorial Day and then spills into Gough Park for Blues Fest the same weekend, you're looking at people who still know how to gather—rain or shine, and apparently after a structure fire