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Ty's Take The Rio Grande SUN picked up 43 awards at the New Mexico Press Association banquet, which says something about doing hard work in a small place where nobody's getting rich but everybody knows what matters. That's what happens when you cover land
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Ty's Take The break in the high school sports calendar this week comes at the right time, with the snow still sitting heavy on the Brazos and the Cumbres pass still running rough. Teams get time to heal up, coaches get time to think instead of just manage,
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Ty's Take When a man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a place this size, the whole valley feels it before the paperwork clears. Guilt or innocence, the ripples run through families who've known each other for generations, through the networks that hold these small communities
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Ty's Take There's not much detail in what we know so far about whoever drove into a police officer, but that's the kind of incident that gets everyone's attention in a county this size. You don't have to live here
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Ty's Take This valley lost some good people this week, and gained another case that reminds you why the sheriff's office stays as busy as it does. Alex Carrillo, Lorence Martinez, George F. Morse, and Dylan E. Romero won't be around to see spring
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Ty's Take The high school ball season's coming down to that stretch where everything that happened in September and October either pays off or doesn't, and around here that means some of these kids are playing for something bigger than a trophy. Out in
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Ty's Take Kids getting propane exposure at a ballgame is the kind of thing that makes you stop and think about what we're willing to accept as normal around here. The story out of the northern briefs doesn't say much, but it says enough,
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Ty's Take There's a thread running through this week's blotter that ought to make anybody who works retail or runs a business around here think twice about locking up at night. Two separate incidents, both involving men acting in ways that cross from nuisance
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of morning when the Chama rises fast and water finds places it shouldn't, and you learn pretty quick whether the infrastructure holding things together was built with the next hundred-year event in mind. The flooding that caught
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Ty's Take The valley lost Douglas Jude Tafoya this week, and lost Andy and Diane Bustos before him, and welcomed Dylan Ethan Romero into it. That's the turn of things up here, the old names moving out and the new ones coming in, the same cycle
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Ty's Take There's something about the way a small paper's pages turn over from one week to the next that tells you who we are up here. This week it's the pets waiting at the shelter and the scattered briefs that don&
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Ty's Take Two pieces of hard news from up the valley this week, and both of them say something about who we are and what matters in a place like this. A man facing the maximum sentence for a crash that killed someone, that's the kind