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Ty's Take A Saturday afternoon wreck south of Houston that left one dead and five hurt reminds us what those stretches of U.S. 63 demand from drivers, especially when the weather shifts and the road gets slick. We lose people on that highway more often than we
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates was 84 when she passed, and Thomas Ocie Williams is gone too, which means the Mesilla Valley lost two more people who knew this country before most of us got here. You don't get obits in the paper without someone noticing,
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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 Rocky Mountain College's athletic teams showed up to play this week, and that's the kind of thing that matters more than the scoreboard sometimes. The men's soccer squad got past College of Idaho by a goal, the women's
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Ty's Take The XTERRA event bringing young athletes to the Sacramento foothills is exactly the kind of thing this town needs to see more of, especially when you've got a military base economy that pulls families in and out every few years. These kids racing around
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Ty's Take A juvenile got hurt in a crash Saturday afternoon, which is the kind of news that stops you cold when you've got kids of your own or grandkids running around these roads. The details are still coming in, but any accident involving a young
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Ty's Take Election season in a county this size always brings the same tension to the surface: people want to know the machinery works, and they want to know somebody's watching it work. Amy Whitehead's got the tough job of explaining it all while
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Ty's Take Thompson spent decades writing about kids who played ball on this high desert and telling their stories the way they deserved to be told, which is harder work than most people think. You don't stay in a small-town sports editor's chair
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Ty's Take There's a lot of talk in the letters this week about what "responsible" means when it comes to building in Chaffee County, and that's worth paying attention to because the word gets stretched like taffy depending on who's
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Ty's Take Spring's the time when a ranch operation either comes together or falls apart, and the Klessens place up there in the high country knows what it takes to survive this country. These operations aren't museum pieces or lifestyle plays, they're
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Ty's Take You want to talk about timing? We've got a prescribed burn canceled on Eight Mile Mesa while the San Juan Stargazers are planning to aim their telescopes at clear skies come October, and somewhere in between we're marking Indigenous People's
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Ty's Take When a town of engineers and scientists sits down to debate utility rates and what happens to the money collected, you know the conversation gets granular in a hurry. The letter in this week's paper from someone defending the rate increase, paired with the