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Ty's Take When a town built on equations and physics wants to throw a party, it tends to do it with the kind of precision you'd expect. Seven finalists for the Green Chile Cheeseburger Smackdown, an airport open house, a memorial hike up Pajarito Mountain, a
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Ty's Take When your mother's in the hospital and the bills start piling up faster than the monsoon runoff down the Rio Grande, you either fold or you figure something out. That's what caught my eye about today's story, a local woman
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 87° Mostly Cloudy then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms · Tonight 68° Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms · Monday 95° Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's
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Ty's Take A 19-year-old on a motorcycle, gone in what probably felt like a single moment on Saturday. That's the kind of news that moves through a county this size like a chill you can't shake off, the kind that reminds every
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the valley change from irrigation ditches to pivot sprinklers, watched chile prices swing wild, and knew most everybody who came through. The Hatch Valley loses someone like that, you feel it in the
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Ty's Take A year in and New Mexico's state park pass for veterans is doing what it was supposed to do, getting folks who served this country out into country that's worth serving. The daylight saving time debate keeps churning through Congress like it
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Ty's Take You've got two stories here, and neither one is sitting on our doorstep, but both say something about how this state runs. Down in Alamogordo, the State Police are digging into an officer-involved shooting, which means somebody's already decided the local
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Ty's Take Saturday mornings in Billings looked different this week. Down at MetraPark, folks gathered for the Relay for Life, then headed downtown to remember. Out at Yellowstone National Cemetery, others were on their hands and knees with clippers and rakes, tending graves. A memorial ride moved through
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Ty's Take Fire season's already knocking on the door up in those high parks, and Schrader Creek near Del Norte is proving it. Nine acres on the Rio Grande National Forest doesn't sound like much until you remember how fast things move at that
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Ty's Take A roller skating rink opening back up is the kind of thing that sounds small until you remember what it means to a town like ours, where families are stretched thin between shift work at the base and the long drives out to anywhere else that
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Ty's Take West Plains High School's recognition as a National Banner Unified Champion School for Special Olympics says something true about this town that doesn't always make the news cycle. We can point to the fundraisers and the sports briefs, sure, but when a
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearing on tailings stability and the water treatment plant funding finally coming together in the same week says something about where this county stands right now. We've got the old economy knocking on the door again, asking about minerals and