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Ty's Take A man in a position to know better got behind the wheel and left someone dead in the road, and now Otero County has to reckon with that particular kind of public shame—the kind that lands in the state news feeds and makes people outside
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Ty's Take The tennis courts down at the park are seeing some real life these days, and that matters more than you'd think in a town like this—when your kids are swinging rackets instead of staring at screens, when volunteers are building something that holds
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Ty's Take The Forest Service's roadless rule debate hits different out here, where the line between conservation and access isn't theoretical—it's personal. You've got ranchers who've worked the same high country their families settled a century ago,
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Ty's Take Seventy-five years back, this paper was running stories about a world still getting used to the atomic age—Trinity had been dust for a year, and Alamogordo was trying to figure out what it meant to live downwind of that kind of history. Fast forward three
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of restlessness that settles over a military town when the seasons shift and leadership changes hands—you can feel it in the administrative offices and the gyms and the coffee shops where people watch who's coming in and
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Ty's Take A triple murder trial grinding through District Court is the kind of heavy lifting that reminds you why small towns need their courts working right—not for the spectacle, but because justice here means something personal, names you know, families torn open in front of your
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Ty's Take Alamogordo took down Tularosa in a 10-12 tournament game the kind of win that doesn't make the state tournament brackets but means everything to the kids who played it and the parents who drove out to watch. These age-group tournaments are where you see
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Ty's Take Screwworms in Lea County and car seats in Otero—not the kind of headlines that grab national attention, but they're the ones that keep a rural county breathing easy or holding its breath. The state's moving fast on the screwworm case, which
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Ty's Take When a small paper loses an editor and gains one in the same breath, you're looking at the kind of transition that either steadies a ship or rocks it hard—and in a town this size, everybody knows which way the current's
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Ty's Take There's something about a small town that makes you notice when the same man shows up twice on the same roster—once as dad, once as coach. Out here where everybody knows who your people are, that overlap isn't accidental. It'
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Ty's Take Five girls from Otero County made All-State in softball, which means five families are going to have those clippings on the refrigerator for a good long while, and they've earned it. This is the kind of news that doesn't move state politics
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Ty's Take Word came through this week that the Sacramento peaks are running clear and cold right now, which means two things in a place like this: somebody's going to have a damn good weekend up in the mountains, and somebody else is probably going to