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Ty's Take High school sports don't lie about a town's week, and this one looks like the kind where the other team had the better answer at the moments that counted. Artesia came in with a plan for the girls soccer squad, and long
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Ty's Take James Ethington was the kind of man who understood that a small town runs on people showing up, and he showed up for decades. Whether it was the guitar he played or the words he wrote, he left fingerprints all over Alamogordo, the sort that don&
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Ty's Take Joseph Cutts taking the magistrate bench is the kind of appointment that matters more than it sounds, especially in a county where water disputes, boundary lines, and neighbor-versus-neighbor dust-ups end up in his courtroom before they get anywhere near a district judge. The
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Ty's Take Slow news day in the basin, which around here usually means somebody's thinking about the future instead of fighting about the past. The new Family Resource Center sounds like the kind of thing that gets built when folks decide their kids matter more than
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Ty's Take Funny how a town built on rockets and missiles ends up chasing UFO stories like they're the real export. The Roswell connection runs deep enough out here that you'd think we'd have gotten used to it by now, but there&
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Ty's Take There's not much mystery in how high school sports shake out most years around here. The kids show up, they work hard, they win some and lose some, and by season's end you've got a pretty fair picture of who&
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Ty's Take When Ruidoso Downs packs up the All American Futurity and heads to Texas, it'll mark another turn of the wheel for a piece of regional horse racing that's meant something to folks around here for decades. The track's been a
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Ty's Take There's something about the middle of the season that separates the kids who show up from the ones who actually belong out there. Right now, somewhere between October and whatever comes next, our high school athletes are proving which category they fall into, and
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's halt on Project Jupiter stings different out here than it might in other towns, because we've been chasing the space economy like a man chasing water in the desert for years now. Tourism dollars, jobs, the whole promise of
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Ty's Take A Ruidoso man facing charges for a crash that killed a teacher reminds us that the mountain roads between here and there don't forgive carelessness, and neither should we. Whatever the details of this case turn out to be, there's a family
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Ty's Take Finding a city attorney in a town this size has never been simple, but watching the position sit vacant long enough to make local news means somebody's legal workload is piling up somewhere, and usually it's the folks trying to get permits
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Ty's Take A bank marking seven decades in Otero County is more than a business milestone, it's a marker of what it takes to stay rooted here through boom and bust, through missile range expansions and water fights that never quite get settled. First National has