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Silver City Daily Digest Friday, October 09, 2026

Ty's Take

Water and politics are the two things nobody around here agrees on, and next week we get both at once. The candidate forum between Luis Terrazs and Raul Turrieta on October 1st is going to draw the usual crowd of folks ready to hear what either man plans to do about the Gila, the aquifer, and whether we're going to keep limping along on what we've got. That Water Commission meeting from last week already stirred the pot, and it'll still be simmering when these two take the stage. In a county where everything ties back to flow rates and junior water rights, this forum matters more than most. Bring your questions and your patience.

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Grant County Beat

Candidate Forum between Rep. Luis Terrazs and challenger Raul Turrieta Oct. 1, 2026

District 39 incumbent Rep. Luis Terrazas will face challenger Raul Turrieta in a candidate forum at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at the Western New Mexico University Global Resource Center auditorium. The event will be available both in person and via livestream on the Grant County Beat...

Grant County Water Commission meeting held September 24, 2026

The Grant County Water Commission held its regular meeting on September 24, 2026, at the city annex building, with interim town manager Jacqui Olea presiding. The commission approved the meeting agenda and August minutes, and Priscilla Lucero, Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments director,...

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West Plains Daily Digest Monday, October 19, 2026

Ty's Take Sunday roads around here have a way of catching people off guard, especially when the weather turns or folks are thinking about something other than the drive in front of them. We've got three separate crashes in just a couple days, two of them

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Ty's Take Election season's landed hard in Sierra County, and the questions aren't slowing down. A poll worker's observations plus County Clerk Amy Whitehead fielding concerns tells you folks around here are paying attention, which is good, but it also signals there&

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Ty's Take Three decades is a long time to keep a nonprofit afloat in a valley where the economy swings with the seasons and the price of everything keeps climbing. Colorado Farm to Table has done it by staying planted in something real, something this county knows in

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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making news. The calendar's filling up though, the way it does when spring finally decides to show up for real. School events, town meetings, community dinners, the kind