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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
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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
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Ty's Take The GPS jamming that brought down that medical plane near Capitan is the kind of thing that lands differently out here than it does in a congressional hearing room—four people dead, a wildfire sparked, and a hard reminder that the tests and operations happening across
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Ty's Take Milton Johnson spent fifty years in that hat shop on New York Avenue turning felt and ribbon into something that looked like it came from another century, and most of us just walked past without thinking much about it. But that's how it works
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Ty's Take Election season's heating up early in Otero County, which means the usual parade of promises is already rolling through town—and in a military community like ours, those promises tend to land different than they do in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. A gubernatorial ticket
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Ty's Take The Barela case is done now, and that's probably the right outcome, but it leaves a question that won't quit: how did we get to a place where a sitting official ends up fighting the state all the way to the Supreme
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Ty's Take The arrests log, the training drill across county lines, and Doug Turner's column about staying committed—they're all part of the same story in a town like this. We've got people who show up, who put on uniforms and train
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Ty's Take The heat's already settling in hard on the basin, and it's worth noting that the folks running the Family Health Fair this week understood something basic: summer in Otero County doesn't care if you're ready for it. A
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Ty's Take Freddie Duran's been strumming that guitar and filling notebooks long enough that most of us around here know his name before we know his face. There's something about a musician who writes—he's got to make sense of two languages
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Ty's Take New Mexico's high school athletic association is taking another crack at the transfer rules, and around here that means something. Holloman's got kids coming and going with reassignments, families chasing base moves, ranching operations pulling kids out to help with seasonal work—
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Ty's Take The screwworm's showing up again in New Mexico livestock, and that's the kind of news that makes ranchers in the basin sit up straight—it's not something you forget once you've dealt with it. Meanwhile, city commission'