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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of winter work that brings the valley together, and it doesn't happen in any boardroom or town council meeting. When neighbors gather for a matanza, the Democrats among them and the Republicans too, you're watching something
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Ty's Take The water's coming down hard from the high country, and anybody who's lived through a spring runoff up here knows that means watching the Chama like a hawk and keeping the kids back from the banks. Northern New Mexico's getting
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Ty's Take Fall up here comes with its own language, the kind you smell before you see it, and that's worth noticing when most of us are too busy with wood stacking and game season to pay attention. The piñon smoke starting to curl out of
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Ty's Take When a woman ends up indicted for kicking deputies and prosecutors are arguing to keep her locked up without bail, you know something went sideways hard enough that the courts aren't taking chances. The details matter less than what this tells you about whoever
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Ty's Take Fall volleyball season hits different when you're playing at altitude and you've got maybe a dozen schools spread across three counties. The Lady Devils took their lumps against Capital this week, which is the kind of thing that happens when you'
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Ty's Take When a slow week hits the Chama Valley and Abiquiú country, the obits tell you what kind of place this is. These are the names that built the land grants, worked the ranches through hard winters, raised families in villages where everybody knows everybody, and kept
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Ty's Take El Rito's volunteer fire crew got some help this week, which is the kind of news that doesn't make the regional pages but matters more than most things that do. A donation came through when it came through, and out here where
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making headlines. The dropped charges against a man who'd been fleeing is the kind of legal tangle that gets sorted quietly in small counties, and the lawsuit over
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Ty's Take Small-town economics run on trust, and trust runs on small gestures that mostly go unnoticed until the day someone decides it doesn't anymore. That story about the customer walking out with cups and silverware instead of a refund isn't really about
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Ty's Take When a week starts this way, with five names in the obituary column, you sit with it for a minute. These aren't strangers. Anita, Esther, Leroy, Bernice, Elaine, they're the people who knew this country in ways the rest of us are