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Ty's Take The road back into the high country opens again this week, which matters more than it sounds—not just for the folks who were evacuated, but for the whole delicate balance this county's been trying to strike for years. When Bursum Road closes, it&
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Ty's Take The county's having one of those weeks where you can read the whole stack and still feel like you're watching separate movies—fire crews managing the Aspen Acres evacuation zone, the landfill burning for reasons nobody knows yet, folks down south getting
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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up for a week starting mid-July means anybody heading to Wolf Creek or down toward Durango better plan accordingly, and that's the kind of disruption that catches people off guard around here—we're used to seasonal closures come
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Ty's Take The Fire Department's push to strengthen wildfire response through statewide partnerships is the kind of talk that gets real attention up here, and for good reason—Cerro Grande and Las Conchas left scars that don't fade, and every household on the plateau
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Ty's Take A kid nearly drowns at the lake, and instead of a tragedy, this community shows up—boat captains cutting engines, strangers diving, someone's quick thinking with CPR. That's the kind of story that reminds you why people stay in places like this,
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Ty's Take There's not much gentle about what shows up in a county paper some weeks—a child abuse indictment, a DWI, an arrest in Plato, a couple of folks hurt when a deer stepped into the road at the wrong moment. But then you flip
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Ty's Take Sam Neill's passing at 78 reminds you that the ones who made you want to believe in dinosaurs walking the earth again aren't getting any younger. He had that rare gift—could make you believe he was terrified and competent at the
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Ty's Take The Chama's running cold and clear this time of year, which is about the only thing a lot of folks around here want to think about come July—never mind the heat or whatever trouble's brewing in town. We've got
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Ty's Take The frost that took out thousands of apples across western Montana this spring is the kind of loss that doesn't make the evening news but gets talked about at every coffee shop from here to Missoula—farmers who've spent years building something
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Ty's Take That quote about consequences—somebody was talking about water, or they should've been. Out here you don't get to say much without the Rio Grande listening, and every word about "doing nothing" carries weight in a place where doing nothing
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Ty's Take The Roswell Record going dark is the kind of thing that sticks with you in this business—not because it's shocking anymore, but because you know exactly which newsroom emptied out and which stories won't get told next week. Small papers in