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Ty's Take Two shooting deaths in Miller County in a week will do what nothing else can around here—it'll empty out the docks and quiet down the marinas faster than a summer storm rolling across the water. We don't like to think of
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Ty's Take A barbershop opening in a county seat of 2,000 doesn't sound like much until you remember that a barbershop is where men still gather, still talk, still belong to something. EK Barbershop is a Houston native coming home with capital and conviction, which
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Ty's Take We lost a few good ones this week—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, and Timothy—and the valley feels a little smaller when the names start stacking up like that. But what strikes me reading through the notices is how many of these folks spent their whole
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Ty's Take Getting a look at next year's Wildcats roster is like watching water seep back into a dry well—slow, steady, and proof that something's still flowing underneath even when things look parched. These kids coming up represent the future of football in
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Ty's Take There's a weight to the news coming down the valley this week that sits heavier than usual. A baby dead, officers who knew something and didn't report it. A woman missing. A shooting in Vallecitos on a Friday night. A restraining order
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Ty's Take A handful of our high school kids made the trip to Helena this week for something called Heads Up Camp—a chance to shadow folks working in behavioral health and mental wellness. It's worth noting because the kids who go to camps like that
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Ty's Take Mid-summer in the Valley means the heat sits on you like a wool blanket you can't shake, and that's usually when folks stop waiting for the perfect weather and just get out there—the county fair circuit's spinning up, the
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Ty's Take The news that Ruidoso Downs is shutting down to fix a culvert might seem like a small operational headache, but it's the kind of thing that reminds you how much of life in this basin depends on infrastructure built decades ago and holding on
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Ty's Take Shannon County's sheriff is talking about a motor vehicle theft problem that's worth paying attention to—the kind of crime that hits harder out here than it might sound, because when somebody lifts your truck or your equipment, you're not
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Ty's Take Our little corner of the state's been grinding through the usual spring shuffle—bond votes, school budgets, a fresh hand at the General Store—but what caught me this week was how much of it points in the same direction. The VFW getting recognized,
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Ty's Take There's an old tension playing out in Grant County right now, and it's worth naming straight. Downtown wants cameras for safety and commerce, ranchers want the feds to leave their water alone, and the Murray Hotel's bringing back the Branding
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Ty's Take Both valleys are betting on water this week—Buena Vista chasing grant money for a new well while the state keeps stocking the ponds and the commissioners hash over what the deer are doing to the landscape. That's the rhythm up here: you'