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Ty's Take You wake up one morning in this valley and realize you knew five of those names, maybe six. That's what it means to live in country where the obits matter more than most headlines, where a death notice reads like a chapter closing on
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Ty's Take Man shoots at a snake and ends up in court over it, only to walk free. That's the kind of story that makes you wonder what the actual facts were, because around here you don't typically catch grief for defending yourself against
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Ty's Take When a man walks into a restaurant with a chisel, when another man threatens somebody over a burrito order, when the trash bill goes up another five bucks a month, you're looking at a stretch of news that says something about life up here
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Ty's Take Friday night lights are coming back to the valley, and you can feel it in the air up here where the seasons turn fast and the football schedule matters as much as the hunting calendar. By this time every year, the talk at Bode's
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Ty's Take Word came down that Trujillo's taking a plea deal in that shooting death up here, which means the legal machinery that's been grinding through since it happened will finally move toward some kind of closing. In a place this size, where most
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Ty's Take Bode's has a coffee pot going most mornings, and if you sit long enough you'll hear what's really on people's minds around here. Last week it was the shelter over in Española needing homes for dogs and cats
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Ty's Take A murder witness walking out on probation is the kind of outcome that settles different ways depending on which side of the courthouse steps you're standing on. The Rio Grande SUN reports it happened, which means it happened somewhere in this territory we cover,
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Ty's Take Most folks up here don't move to the Chama Valley looking for quiet, exactly, but there's a difference between the natural sounds of this country and somebody else's idea of entertainment bleeding through your walls at midnight. When someone'
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Ty's Take When charges get dropped in a fatal wreck, people want to know why, and they want to know fast. The details matter most up here where everybody drives these canyon roads and everybody knows somebody who didn't make it home. A year is a
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Ty's Take The obituaries page tells you something about who we are up here. Karen Layla Martinez, Andreita Romero, Albert Freddie Vigil Jr.—names that run deep in this country, families that have held land and memory through centuries of change. When you lose people like that, you
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Ty's Take There's a reason chile talk heats up around here come late summer, and it's not just the crop itself. These northern cultivars we've grown for generations aren't decoration or nostalgia, they're what held families through winters
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Ty's Take Word came down that somebody's been walking around town with a machete that isn't exactly official county business, which is the kind of thing that gets people talking at Bode's and reminds you that even up here, where most folks