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Ty's Take Labor Day weekend's shaping up busier than usual up here, what with a 40-ton crane rolling through town Monday and the gas company venting on the same day, all while fire season still has its grip on the plateau. The Frijoles Fire'
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces transform from a town where everybody knew everybody to a city that's still trying to figure out who it is. That kind of long view matters, especially when you'
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Sunny · Tonight 76° Mostly Clear · Monday 100° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take A Pleasant Hill man is recovering from serious injuries after a motorcycle accident up in Camden
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Ty's Take There's a particular stretch of road southwest of Licking where the deer seem to know exactly when to cross, which is to say they don't know at all. Happens every fall when the heat breaks and the animals get restless, moving between
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Ty's Take The small gestures matter most on days like this one. NorthWestern Energy's ten grand to Toby's House, a community that just lost neighbors we didn't know we'd miss until we read their names in the paper, a house
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Ty's Take Homeward Bound's ninety projects completed in one month says something about what happens when you've got volunteers who actually show up and get the work done instead of talking about it. That's the kind of outfit that keeps a town
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Ty's Take Retirements and transitions hit different in a valley this size, especially when they involve people who've spent decades steward of the land and folks running our schools. We're losing a district ranger who knows every drainage and ridge in Saguache country, which
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Ty's Take Finding a city attorney in a town this size has never been simple, but watching the position sit vacant long enough to make local news means somebody's legal workload is piling up somewhere, and usually it's the folks trying to get permits
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Ty's Take Some weeks the news comes at you all at once, and this is one of them. We've got officers involved in shootings, privacy charges against locals, a disbarred attorney we all knew, and enough courthouse trouble to keep the talk going down at the
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Ty's Take Water, jobs, and how we run this county. That's the order they usually come in around here, and today's paper lands all three on the table at once. The copper mine hearing is the big one, because that operation sits upstream and
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Ty's Take When the monsoon season hits the Mimbres drainage hard enough to trigger flash flood warnings, it's a reminder that this country doesn't care much about our municipal headaches. The solid waste questions hanging over the county commission can wait until the water
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Ty's Take Labor Day weekend used to mean one thing around here: the river runs full, the festival hits, and half the valley closes down because everybody's either on the water or working the crowds. These days it means that plus a yard sale to fund