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Ty's Take Shirley Ann Clayton, who spent more than eight decades on the Pajarito Plateau, passed away last month at 83, and her obituary reads like a small-town life well-lived: wife, mother, grandmother, involved in her church and community. That kind of steady presence, the kind
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Ty's Take Route 66 hit its hundred-year mark this year, and watching that centennial caravan roll through Laclede County is the kind of thing that reminds you why this stretch of pavement matters so much to who we are. This town's always been a crossroads,
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Ty's Take Drowning season is here, and Wednesday's death out on the water is a reminder that these lakes don't care how many times you've been on a boat or how well you think you know the conditions. The Springfield man who
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Ty's Take When a rural hospital starts drawing recognition for doing maternal care right, that's worth noting in a county where the nearest alternatives mean a drive. Texas County Memorial earned that recognition because somebody there decided that delivering babies in your own community, with your
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Ty's Take The body found this week belongs to someone's daughter, someone's neighbor, someone who walked these roads. The details are still coming out, the way they always do in a place this size, where news travels faster than the Rio Grande runs in
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Ty's Take The Montana Club's multimillion-dollar expansion down in Helena is the kind of project that catches attention around here, mostly because it reminds you what happens when a local business gets traction and decides to double down instead of cash out. Four new venues
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Ty's Take The water trial wrapping up in Subdistrict 1 matters more than most courthouse proceedings, because around here the question of who gets what flows down the Rio Grande doesn't get settled by judges so much as it gets lived with, year after year, by
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Ty's Take Anne Hillerman's been thinking about the line between what happened and what people remember happening, which is the real work of writing out here whether you're chasing facts or spinning stories. Her father Tony built his whole reputation on getting the Southwest
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Ty's Take Jasper Engines making TIME's list of America's best private companies is the kind of news that reminds you why this region holds its own—a homegrown operation that built something real and kept building it, right here where the work gets done.
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Ty's Take The county commissioners made the call most folks around here already had in their heads—pump the brakes on data centers out at Spaceport America, at least for now. Nobody's against progress, but there's a difference between the kind that fits who
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Ty's Take The drug busts this week—six arrested, grand jury indictments rolling in—remind us that trouble doesn't announce itself in a town like Silver City. It's here, quiet, mixed in with everything else we're trying to build. But what caught
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Ty's Take The dog attack at Riverside Park during FIBArk—a golden retriever killed by another dog in broad daylight, in front of families—is the kind of thing that catches a river town off guard. We're used to the chaos of festival week, the rafters