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Ty's Take Water and whiskey—two things that've always demanded respect around these lakes, and two things we keep learning the hard way never to mix. A man dead at Truman, another fighting for his life after a DWI wreck in Miller County, all in the
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Ty's Take A six-vehicle wreck on a Friday night is the kind of call that reminds you how fast things can turn bad on our roads, and how the next few hours in a hospital waiting room can change a family's whole year. The woman
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and this county's had to wait longer than most. Three people charged now in the Tory Sanders case, and charges coming down against former law enforcement too—which tells you something about what investigators
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down this week while we're heading into the season that usually means heat, dust, and the kind of fire conditions that don't care much about county lines. In a place like Luna County where water&
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Ty's Take Tuesday must've been one of those days when the wildlife and the locals were both running hard through the valley. A man got himself chased twice—law enforcement on his heels, which is the kind of headline that doesn't usually end clean—
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in what happened this week while most of us were focused on the heat and weekend plans: Billings doubled down on its role as the keeper of this region's story. The new Conservation Legacy Center opening up isn&
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Ty's Take County fair season's here, which means the whole valley stops what it's doing for a week and remembers why we stay put in Sweet Grass County. You'll see the same families working the same booths their parents worked, kids showing
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Ty's Take Primary day in Conejos County always draws the same crowd—folks who've voted the same way since their grandfathers did, a handful of swing voters who actually read the mailers, and the poll workers who've been opening that same church basement since
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Ty's Take Most folks around here know the difference between having time and taking time, and that gap's been widening for years. The water's been good to this basin when we've had it, and whether someone's casting a line at
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Ty's Take When a neighboring county's audit comes back stamped "poor" because of illegal debt and misconduct in the sheriff's office, it's a reminder that the machinery of local government only runs clean when people are paying attention—and when
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Ty's Take The fourth bond measure in as many years tells you everything you need to know about where the money's going around here—water systems that can't keep up, roads that never stop crumbling, and wastewater infrastructure that's playing catch-up
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Ty's Take The museum director's indictment lands hard in a town where cultural institutions are supposed to be pulling people together, not tearing themselves apart—especially when we're still building what Silver City's going to be in another ten years. You can