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Ty's Take Leadership Otero's back with another cohort, which means somewhere in this county right now a handful of folks are getting the kind of attention and training that actually sticks with people. That program has a real track record of building the kind of leaders
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Ty's Take The Sacramento Mountains are running cold enough now that the trout are moving back into the shallows, and that means the next six weeks are about as good as it gets around here if you know where to drop a line. Fall's the season
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Ty's Take There's a particular gravity to days when the police log reads like a catalog of broken trust, the kind that makes you wonder less about the crimes themselves and more about what's wearing people down enough to commit them. Three separate cases
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Ty's Take The fair's back in full swing, which means Alamogordo's doing what it does best, and the city commission's doing what it does too. When a municipal body declines to review allegations against one of its own, you can read that
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Ty's Take Volleyball goes five sets against mountain rivals, football gets run over by Artesia, and now the town's voting on who deserves the hardware for the week. That's small-town sports in a nutshell, where the scoreboard tells you who won Friday night
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Ty's Take Fair week's done and the dust is settling, which means we can stop pretending the county's divided between the folks who showed up and the ones who didn't. A rodeo still tells you who cares about keeping the old ways
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Ty's Take September's the month when this basin finally gets some relief from the heat, and the folks at 100% Otero aren't shy about using that window to talk about recovery, whether from addiction or anything else that's been holding people down.
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Ty's Take Fire safety doesn't make the news until it's too late, which is why what the volunteers did up in High Rolls matters more than it might look on the surface. Out in those foothills where the Sacramento Mountains climb up and the
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of ugliness that comes with a parent trafficking their own children, and Chaparral's got that weight sitting heavy in the courthouse this week. The Facebook verdict out of state courts doesn't move the needle much for
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Ty's Take The fair's open, the Kellys are back in the spotlight, and somebody's finally serious about what we do with Bonito Lake, which around here means the conversation about water just got a lot less theoretical. You can feel it this time of
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Ty's Take High school sports in a county this size mean something different than they do in places with twenty schools to draw from. When Cloudcroft rolls into town to play Tularosa, it's not just another game on the schedule, it's the kind of
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