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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to Memorial Day out here, where half the county seems to have someone buried at Fort Bayard and the other half is still out working the land those people fought for. This year's ceremony falls right as fire
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Ty's Take The stack of stories this week—wildfire prep costs climbing, water staying tight, geothermal schemes eyeing our backyard—keeps circling back to the same hard truth about living here: paradise costs something, and it's not just the second-mortgage payment. We can host festivals and
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Ty's Take Five people hurt when a boat clips a submerged log, a restaurant gutted by fire overnight, and another reminder that the lake we love can turn on us fast—that's this week around the water. The good news is buried in here too, though:
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Ty's Take The closure notices keep coming for rural clinics across the region, and Seeley Swan Medical Center's mounting deficits are just the latest chapter in a story Billings knows too well—we're the fallback when smaller towns can't hold the line.
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Ty's Take Money moving through the shadows in a New Mexico primary always leaves a trail, even when somebody's built a nonprofit wall to hide behind. Same voters who trust their neighbors with cattle deals and water rights are supposed to believe they can't
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Ty's Take Two people dead on the roads this weekend, another from whatever was happening in that house in Squires, and a young man from Mountain View gone Saturday night—that's the kind of stretch that reminds you how fast things can turn out here, how
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Ty's Take Graduation, Memorial Day, and the annual FFA banquet all stacked up this week—the kind of calendar that reminds you this town still runs on the old rhythms, even with Spaceport America drawing eyes toward the stars. These aren't the flashy stories that make
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Ty's Take You can feel something shifting in Silver City when the conversation moves from what we used to mine to what we might build next—and this week that conversation got a little more organized. The new economic committee digging into tax reports isn't glamorous
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Ty's Take Memorial Day's coming up, which means we'll see the flags go in at the cemetery and hear the names read—the ones who didn't come home, the ones who did but left pieces of themselves somewhere else. That's
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the junior high and high school—that's the kind of sentence that would've landed like a joke twenty years ago, but here we are, and Deming Schools is moving forward with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses. It'
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Ty's Take Spring in Billings moves fast—one week the kids are sitting for senior pictures, the next week they're walking across the stage in their caps and gowns, and somewhere in between we lose neighbors who watched them grow up. That's what today&
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Ty's Take The traffic stop that turned into a major drug bust is the kind of thing that reminds you why we need law enforcement out here that actually knows the roads and the people—and the difference between a routine stop and something that smells wrong. Meanwhile,