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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of grace that shows up in small towns when somebody does their job right over a long stretch of time. Kristina Grant's patients saying so, a little girl getting the care she needed when minutes counted, folks remembering
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Ty's Take Two more names in the paper this week, and if you've lived in the valley long enough you probably knew one of them or knew somebody who did. Janice Brown made it to 82, David Reyes to 62, and that gap right there tells
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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 A house fire out at Copper Ridge, a pipeline purge down in Great Falls, another week of obits marking who we've lost, and a police department honoring a kid who stepped up when it mattered. That's the rhythm of a working town
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Ty's Take The college athletic calendar keeps rolling regardless of what else is happening around here, and that's as it should be. Adams State's teams give us something to watch and root for when the high valley weather turns mean and the daylight starts
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Ty's Take The sound of engines cutting loose on a runway built for fighter jets has its own kind of music, and Saturday morning at Holloman somebody decided to turn that asphalt into a drag strip. Racing events at the base aren't new, but there'
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Ty's Take Ralph Riggs handing off a surveying award to his brother Ray, who's carrying on the work here in Howell County, tells you something about how this country runs. These aren't glamour jobs, marking property lines and running baselines across rough timber and
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Ty's Take Water and politics tend to move in the same channels around here, and this week we're seeing both at work. The county's extending tax deadlines for folks hit by flooding, which is the practical side of what happens when the Rio Grande
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Ty's Take There's a particular rhythm to October in Grant County, the one where the harvest comes in and the community takes stock of itself all at once. This week we saw that rhythm on full display: the Harvest Festival bringing folks together at San Lorenzo,
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Ty's Take The Rolla Choral Arts Society's bringing Whitman to the Ozarks this weekend with "I Hear America Singing," and that's exactly the kind of thing that keeps a college town from feeling too much like just another I-44 exit. This
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Ty's Take Friends and Neighbors in Need hosting a fundraiser isn't much of a headline until you remember that this outfit keeps people fed and housed when the margins get thin, which happens to more of us than we like to admit. In a town where
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Ty's Take Takes a certain kind of town to fill a newspaper with Rotary awards, transit schedules, nature center programs, and candidate forums, then call it a week. Nothing wrong with that. These are the bones of how a place actually works, the small civic machinery that keeps