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Ty's Take A motorcyclist swerving to miss a deer, six school buses pulled for safety, chlorine pumps going in at water wells across the county—the kind of week where you notice the systems holding things together, and the moments they almost don't. The Rotary raised
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands different when you're looking at your well gauge instead of a statewide map, and every farmer from here to the Florida Mountains knows it. New Mexico's been running on fumes for years, but Luna County
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Ty's Take When a man pleads guilty to meth charges after being swept up in a controversial police raid, when two scientists from one of the region's most sensitive research facilities face federal charges, and when the county sheriff's office is searching for interim
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Ty's Take Ted Turner's death this week closes a chapter on private conservation that won't come around again, not in this lifetime anyway. A man with enough money to think in generations instead of quarters bought up nearly two million acres across the West—
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a class walk across that stage at Conejos High that reminds you the valley still holds its own—kids who grew up in these towns, who know the land and the language and the history that sits underneath it all,
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Ty's Take The levee that holds back the Rio Grande has been part of this valley's conversation since before most of us were born—water rights, flood control, whether we're protecting enough or too much, and who gets to decide. Now Alamosa's
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Ty's Take Adam Hoppes is taking over the Chamber at a moment when Alamogordo's got to decide what it wants to be—a military town riding Holloman's steady payroll, a space tourism destination banking on Virgin Galactic and the museum, or something that makes
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Ty's Take That million-dollar gift to the Community Foundation for MSU-West Plains scholarships shows what happens when people who made it out remember where they came from—and what happens when a regional university does right by the kids who can't afford to leave. Scholarship money
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Ty's Take The Tiger Stadium track closure hits different when you're a town this size—it's not just about the runners and jumpers who won't have a place to train, it's about the Friday nights when families walk over to
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Ty's Take Monday nights around the Grant County sheriff's office tend to be quiet, which makes it worth noting when they aren't. Between a hit-and-run that landed an 18-year-old in the system and whatever else kept the deputies moving, it looks like the start
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Ty's Take Unemployment down to 2.8 percent, Pirates picking up all-state honors, and the school district moving forward with a new language arts curriculum—on the surface it reads like a town humming along fine. But underneath, the real story is the one you see in those
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Ty's Take You've got to pay attention when the big development money starts filing Chapter 11 around here—it usually means somebody's backyard is about to look a lot different than they planned. Jeff Tegethoff's bankruptcy filing and his sudden exit from