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Ty's Take Those old photographs in today's Record take you back to when Lebanon looked different but felt the same, which is probably why people still stop by the office asking if we've got more prints stashed somewhere. You see the storefronts along Main,
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who passed this week at 89, spent most of his life around Las Cruces and knew this valley the way people know their own hands. The Bulletin's notice doesn't tell us much beyond the basics, but that's
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 92° Sunny · Tonight 70° Partly Cloudy · Columbus Day 92° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Eighteen years running, and the Legacy of Love Gala keeps finding folks willing to show
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Ty's Take Radio station's been running the same two Taylor Swift stories all morning, which tells you either it was a slow news cycle or somebody's playlist got a little repetitive. Look, there's nothing wrong with a little pop music chatter, especially
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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 Primary season came and went without much fanfare, which is about right for a county where everybody already knows everybody else and most folks have made up their minds long before the ballots drop. What matters more than the preliminary numbers is what happens next, the
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Ty's Take A couple of world-class athletes came through our backyard last week, and while the headlines landed up in Ruidoso where the actual race ran, the ripple effect matters down here too. When XTERRA puts on a show that draws serious competitors and serious crowds, it
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Ty's Take Four hours is a long time to wait on a standoff to end, whether you're the law enforcement holding position or the family wondering what comes next. That felony charge that followed tells you this wasn't some misunderstanding that got smoothed over
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Ty's Take The airport water line question keeps coming up, and the answer's still no, but it's worth understanding why instead of just taking the dismissal at face value. Out here where every gallon counts and the Rio Grande keeps us all guessing, running
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Ty's Take The Planning and Zoning board's endorsement of a data center moratorium this week amounts to Silver City saying no thank you to one more bet on somebody else's future. We've been down that road before, watching outside money flow in
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Ty's Take The Chaffee County Youth Alliance is asking us to think about what we're actually doing for the kids around here, and that's worth taking seriously. Violence, escalation, patterns that repeat, feedback forms that get passed around, action plans that sit in filing
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Ty's Take When Phelps County residents speak up about healthcare costs, they're not complaining into a void, they're sending a message that's hard to ignore in a rural county where insurance gaps and prescription prices hit different than they do in the