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Ty's Take When a man spends thirty years showing up for kids who aren't his own, teaching them to think, to read, to believe they belong somewhere in this world, you don't let that pass without saying something. The valley's losing somebody
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Ty's Take The Lindeman case sitting in front of Judge Prewitt carries the weight of this whole county's understanding of when a man can defend what's his, and that's not something to rush through paperwork on. Meanwhile, the scholarship created for Kamie
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Ty's Take Budget season in Sierra County tends to sort itself out the way it always does, which is to say the real work happens in closed rooms before anybody votes yes. The hospital's FY2027 budget passing means the lights stay on and the emergency room
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Ty's Take The water situation keeps tightening around here, and now it's got Ben Oswald Park shut down until further notice. Losing a soccer field to drought is the kind of thing that sounds abstract until you're a kid who can't practice,
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Ty's Take Recorders offices don't usually move the needle on a Tuesday, but come August 28th, the folks at the Phelps County Recorder's office will be charging you more for the paperwork that keeps land deals and property lines straight around here. It'
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Ty's Take The not guilty verdict in the Sherrod case closes one chapter, but it's worth sitting with what the trial revealed about how we investigate and prosecute serious crimes in a county this size. When the stakes are this high and the resources this thin,
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Ty's Take The water fights never really end around here, they just cycle through different courtrooms and different names. This week we're watching Colorado get defiant with the feds over the Colorado River while our own county sits down to hash out what housing looks like
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sat at better than a third contained by Friday evening, nearly a thousand personnel working the Jemez ridges in what amounts to a familiar nightmare for anyone who lived through Cerro Grande or Las Conchas. Those fires rewired how this town thinks about
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 88° Patchy Fog then Mostly Sunny · Tonight 66° Clear · Sunday 86° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take This weekend hits different when the Shootout rolls in, and if you&
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Ty's Take When a pharmacy starts turning people away because the prescription line won't quit, you know something upstream broke. Forbes Pharmacy in town has been slammed since Hutcheson closed their doors, and old Jim and his crew are doing what they always do, which is
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the whole arc of it, the good seasons and the dry ones, the way a valley changes when the water holds and the way it tightens when it doesn't. The Mesilla
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Ty's Take When charges get dropped in a fatal wreck, people want to know why, and they want to know fast. The details matter most up here where everybody drives these canyon roads and everybody knows somebody who didn't make it home. A year is a