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Ty's Take The arrests log, the training drill across county lines, and Doug Turner's column about staying committed—they're all part of the same story in a town like this. We've got people who show up, who put on uniforms and train
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Ty's Take Seems like Friday had teeth this week—three serious wrecks scattered across the county, the kind that remind you how fast things can go wrong on these roads, especially when you're distracted or pressing your luck. Meanwhile, there's good news on the
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Ty's Take The Forestry Division's decision to push seedlings into the burn zones makes sense on paper—replant what the fire took, stabilize the soil, move forward. But anyone who's walked those blackened ridges above Hillsboro knows that fire in this country doesn'
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's still eating landscape up there, and that June 13 blowup reminds us why this country demands respect—and why we can't afford to be casual about what happens in those canyons above town. Fire doesn't care much
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Ty's Take Town council's moving on those old Wyndham properties, and that's the kind of real estate shuffle that either fixes something broken or creates new problems—depends who you ask and what gets built there. For years those parcels sat half-empty, bleeding into
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Ty's Take Offshore racing season out here brings the best and worst of lake culture into sharp focus—the skill and speed that draw thousands to watch, and the split-second decisions that separate a good day from a tragedy. Two separate powerboat crashes during last weekend's
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Ty's Take Couple of courthouse stories this week that don't sit easy, even by the standards of a place where people live hard and sometimes settle things harder. A woman gets beaten for trying to help someone navigate disability benefits—the kind of work that keeps
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Ty's Take Slow Friday in the valley, which means the real work's happening where it usually does—in the clinics and at the markets and in the neighborhoods where people are just getting on with it. Billings Clinic's tenth cohort of internal medicine residents
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Ty's Take Sherry Perdue's been around long enough to know that county commissioner isn't a job you take to make friends—it's one you take because somebody's got to make the hard calls about water, roads, and land use in
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Ty's Take The heat's already settling in hard on the basin, and it's worth noting that the folks running the Family Health Fair this week understood something basic: summer in Otero County doesn't care if you're ready for it. A
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Ty's Take The library's dinosaur summer reading program and the city council's Monday night session on animal control and zoning might seem like separate stories, but they're really the same conversation—what does West Plains look like five, ten years from now?
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Ty's Take Every July, Elephant Butte fills with boats and fireworks and people remembering why they moved here in the first place, and there's nothing wrong with that—a town needs its celebrations. But you can't help noticing the city commission spending its energy