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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
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Ty's Take St. James has a new chamber director, which might sound like the kind of thing that gets buried in the back pages, but if you've watched what happens in these smaller county seats you know better. The chamber's the connective tissue between
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Ty's Take Smoke rolling down from the fires up high is the kind of thing that sneaks up on you if you're not paying attention, and by the time you notice the haze, your dog's already spent the afternoon outside breathing it in. The
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Ty's Take The word on U.S. 160 reconstruction used to be that it'd be done by now, then next summer, then the summer after that. At some point you stop asking when and start asking who's actually in charge, which is probably why
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into what a town chooses to worry about on any given week, and right now the Lab is modeling bacteriophage therapy while the state's launching another DWI campaign and firefighters are working the Frijoles Fire up in the mountains.