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Ty's Take You know the old saying about how you can't control the weather, only prepare for it. Well, Mother Nature didn't get that memo, and the folks around here are spending their late summer doing what they always do when the wind kicks
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Ty's Take Fire season's grip finally loosening around Santa Clara, which is the kind of news that settles people's shoulders down a notch this time of year. When restrictions lift you can feel the shift, especially heading into winter when folks want to gather
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Ty's Take Water's coming down the Arkansas the way we like it this time of year, and that 2,500 acre-feet pulse hitting the river these next few weeks is exactly what the doctor ordered for August when flows usually run thin and the rafting
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Ty's Take Lanning Lane's going to be tore up for a while, which if you've lived here long enough means you've seen this dance before. The county figures it needs the work, and fair enough, that stretch has taken a beating from
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Ty's Take Early season bears coming down lower than usual means the usual warnings: don't leave garbage out, keep your distance, and for God's sake don't get between a sow and her cubs. But what it really means is the food sources
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Ty's Take The Rio Blanco fire is moving the way August fires move around here, and that means the Lower Blanco drainage is waking up to the kind of morning nobody wants to see. Smoke like that brings the whole county into sharp focus real quick, because fire
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 4,000 acres with zero containment and families evacuating down in Santa Fe County is exactly the kind of August morning that gets people on the plateau paying attention to their go-bags and their weather radio. We've
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Ty's Take Every August, there's that moment when the back seats get loaded up and somebody's kid heads out the door with a duffel bag and a half-smile, and the house feels different after they leave. That's what's happening
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams is gone, which means another piece of this valley's working history walks out the door. The Bulletin didn't run much, just the name and the basics, the way it goes sometimes when a man lived quiet and kept his
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Sunny · Tonight 80° Partly Cloudy · Wednesday 100° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take We've got three serious vehicle accidents scattered across the region this week, which
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Ty's Take Football season's coming but the bleachers won't be ready when the Tigers take the field for their home opener, thanks to track construction that's pushed the game back a week or two. It's the kind of scheduling headache
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked these fields and knew every irrigation ditch between here and Rincon, passed this week at 89. You don't see many obituaries that don't need explaining around a farming town, but his kind did. He was the water,