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Ty's Take Fire restrictions are back at Santa Clara, wind advisories are stacked like cordwood, and we're heading into what looks like another dry spring—the kind that makes you remember why those old mining towns burned down so easy, and why folks around here stopped
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when government work happens without anyone knowing about it. The CG treatment moving forward in our area without public meetings or impact studies sits wrong—not because the work might be necessary, but because folks
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Ty's Take U.S. 160 is getting torn up again—dogleg near the old courthouse pushed back by weather, additional work zones west of town going to snarl things the week after next—and if you've got business in town or a commute that depends on
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Ty's Take We lost some good ones this week—men who'd put down roots here and stayed, which means something in a town that's grown as fast as this one has. George Jackson, Paul Lawrence, James Creek—names that show up in the community
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Ty's Take Three tornadoes touched down in Morgan County Monday, and by some miracle—or maybe just the grace of people who know their landscape—nobody died. Firefighters sheltering from an EF-1 at a lightning-struck house fire, residents in basements, drivers who'd seen enough storms to
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Ty's Take May's shaping up to be one of those months where Deming remembers who it is—Old West Heritage Days coming to the fairgrounds, the arts center filling up, a scholarship benefit that'll take us back to the 80s, and now pickleball courts
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Ty's Take Slow week up north, which means you're seeing the real texture of things—a man charged in a domestic, another claiming the devil's got his friend's ear, copper wire disappearing off a business, the usual friction that happens when folks
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Ty's Take The machinery of voting—the deadlines, the forms, the rules that change year to year—doesn't sound like the stuff that gets people worked up, but it does when ballots start getting rejected over something as simple as a birth year box filled wrong.
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Ty's Take The snowpack numbers sitting at 75 percent of median tells you everything you need to know about what's coming downstream this summer—and it's not much. We've seen dry years before, but record lows at multiple reporting sites up the
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Ty's Take Anne Kelly's first real move as the new DA lands hard—charging a sitting sheriff and his deputies is the kind of thing that gets people talking in the grocery store for months. It's also the kind of thing that either defines
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Ty's Take A mall evacuation, a Senate candidate in cuffs at the base, and talk of new flights out of Ruidoso—it's the kind of week that reminds you Alamogordo sits at the crossroads of a lot of moving pieces. You've got the military
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Ty's Take The Ruidoso-to-Denver flight corridor is the kind of story that gets overlooked until you realize what it actually means for Otero County—suddenly you're not a rural pocket anymore, you're a gateway, and that changes everything from property values to workforce mobility