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Ty's Take When a police shooting lands on the front page of any small town's paper, it changes the rhythm of what people talk about at the grocery store and the diner for weeks. We don't know yet what happened on that call, what
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Ty's Take Two local people sitting in federal custody on fentanyl trafficking charges, which means somewhere between here and the border, the supply lines that are killing people across this country ran straight through Alamogordo. This isn't some abstract drug war statistic anymore, it's
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Ty's Take When French artists show up to paint the basin and end up sketching unexplained lights in the sky, it says something about who we are and what sticks in people's minds about this place. We're caught between the practical and the mysterious,
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Ty's Take The Tigers took care of business Friday night, which is what you want to see before the real schedule starts grinding in October. Forty-one to thirty-three against Santa Fe says the offense showed up and the defense found its footing, and that matters more
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Ty's Take A woman turns a hundred and her life's work was teaching kids, a young man's earned a scholarship to UNM, and the city pumped the brakes on tearing down Sunspot before somebody figured out what it's actually worth. That'
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Ty's Take Volleyball season's here, and you've got two different angles playing out in the same basin. Tularosa's bringing in new blood to rebuild what used to work, which is the kind of patience a program needs when things have drifted. Over
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Ty's Take You can tell something's shifting out at the high school when a volleyball team starts talking about culture the way you'd talk about a crop that needs tending. The girls at AHS aren't just chasing wins this season, they'
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Ty's Take When the state's lawyers go after Washington over what's hidden in the Epstein files, you can bet there's something about New Mexico that somebody doesn't want talked about. We've had our share of powerful men doing
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Ty's Take Violence on a Tuesday afternoon reminds you that Alamogordo's still a town where things can flip hard and fast, but what sticks with me today is the photographer story, the one about the person who spent years capturing this basin and nobody around here
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Ty's Take Tularosa's water emergency doesn't make the news just because the basin's dry, though God knows it is. It makes the news because somebody finally had to say it out loud, call it what it is, and ask the state for
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Ty's Take You watch a town's character show up in what its kids are doing on a ball diamond or a horse track, and Alamogordo's got plenty to be proud of right now. Post 34 is turning out the kind of baseball that reminds
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Ty's Take When a Supreme Court decision hinges on what a camera did or didn't capture, you're looking at the kind of case that haunts a small region for years. The video tossed from the Artesia newborn murder case won't disappear from