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Ty's Take El Rito Media's haul of 43 awards up in Santa Fe last week is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town this size, but it shouldn't. These papers, including our own, won for reporting on everything from schools to
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Ty's Take The Sheriff's Department had a month worth talking about, and not just because of the 2.3 million in narcotics they pulled off the streets. That kind of seizure doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't happen without work. What
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Ty's Take A state senator getting kicked by a cow is the kind of story that reminds you why we live out here instead of somewhere else, and also why you ought to pay attention when you're around livestock. The senator's fine, which is
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a town decides to spend a million dollars. Alamogordo's commitment to cleaning up those scattered properties, the ones that collect weeds and broken glass and hard feelings, says something about whether this place believes in itself.
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Ty's Take Wade Taylor's face is going to be hard to miss around town now, staring out from those new billboards while his family keeps looking for answers. It's been long enough that people stop noticing missing person posters, the way our eyes slide
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Ty's Take The sound of engines cutting loose on a runway built for fighter jets has its own kind of music, and Saturday morning at Holloman somebody decided to turn that asphalt into a drag strip. Racing events at the base aren't new, but there'
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Ty's Take The XTERRA event bringing young athletes to the Sacramento foothills is exactly the kind of thing this town needs to see more of, especially when you've got a military base economy that pulls families in and out every few years. These kids racing around
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Ty's Take A couple of world-class athletes came through our backyard last week, and while the headlines landed up in Ruidoso where the actual race ran, the ripple effect matters down here too. When XTERRA puts on a show that draws serious competitors and serious crowds, it
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Ty's Take Couple things happening around town that remind you why you keep reading the small print. A man's day went sideways in ways nobody plans for, the kind of accident that makes you grateful for neighbors and a working ER. Meanwhile the football team'
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Ty's Take There's something about a Thursday night volleyball match that reminds you why small towns keep showing up for each other, win or lose. The Wildcats took down Capitan in what the log calls a nail-biter, and sure enough, that's the kind
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Ty's Take The XTERRA crowd rolling through town this week, most of them lean and hungry and used to pushing their bodies past what normal folks think is reasonable, reminds you something about Alamogordo that doesn't always make the papers. We're a town built
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Ty's Take Vasquez's push for tighter WIPP oversight in Carlsbad is the kind of thing that ripples through this whole basin whether folks pay attention or not, because what happens with that repository affects water, affects trust, affects whether we're serious about hosting something