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Ty's Take Early voting's live in Otero County, and that's worth paying attention to—not because I'm going to tell you who to mark your ballot for, but because turnout in a place like this matters more than most folks realize. We&
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Ty's Take You see two tractor accidents in a week's worth of headlines from our corner of the country and you start wondering what we're missing—not the wrecks themselves, but the machinery that's been running since before daylight, the long hours
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a building get a second life that makes you believe a town's still got some fight in it. R&L moving into the old Gibson's space—that's not just retail shuffling, that'
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Ty's Take Brownfield talk in a small town usually means one of two things: either somebody's finally going to clean up an eyesore, or somebody's going to spend five years in meetings while nothing happens. Red Lodge is in that conversation right now, looking
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into the infrastructure moves stacking up this month—the highway reconstruction on 160, the town taking on sewer line replacements, EMS officially essential, Aspen House finally breaking ground after eleven years. These aren't glamorous stories, but they're
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Ty's Take May's a tough month around here—everybody's either out in the fields, at their kids' games, or glued to something on a screen they've been meaning to watch since March. Entertainment guide weeks like this one used to feel
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Ty's Take An Osage Beach man died in a go-kart accident this week, which ought to remind everyone around the lake that speed and recreation don't always mix the way we think they will. We've got Show Me Chaos coming up with its full-throttle
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and longer still when the people who were supposed to be finding them end up in the dock themselves. Three arrests now in the Tory Sanders case, and charges piling up against former law enforcement—the
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Ty's Take Kid from up in Albuquerque pleading guilty to an attempted robbery down here in Luna County—that's the kind of case that doesn't make the local news cycle unless something's gone wrong with how young people are moving through this
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Ty's Take Court dockets don't usually tell you much beyond the mechanics of who did what and what the judge decided, but when you stack up a molester doing fourteen years, an ATV incident moving toward indictment, and a no-confidence letter landing on the sheriff'
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Ty's Take A thin news day in early May usually means the community's attention is split between spring work and the machinery of an election season, but today's headlines carry weight anyway—a teenager dead in a motorcycle crash, a woman killed near Big
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Ty's Take The missing woman found safe is the kind of story that moves through a town like this without needing much amplification—neighbors know neighbors, word travels the irrigation ditch, and by evening everybody breathes easier. But it's worth saying plain: in a county this