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Ty's Take Civic center's hosting a debate Wednesday night, and if you've got questions worth asking, the organizers want to hear them—that's the kind of thing that works best when it's not just the usual suspects doing the talking.
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Ty's Take When schools start picking up the tab for pencils and notebooks again, you know something's shifted in how we're thinking about equity around here. Truth or Consequences High's TigerSharks making it to Sundance State is the kind of news that
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Ty's Take Sometimes a town shows you what it actually values by what it fights to keep and what it lets slip away. We're hanging onto the museum—good, that matters—and we're wrestling with a mayor's reputation the way small towns
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Ty's Take Chaffee County's got itself a classic late-summer moment coming up—the Fair and Rodeo rolling in Friday with all the dust and noise and genuine community that still matters out here, while upstream in Buena Vista they're wrestling with which historic
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Ty's Take The Fort Wyman stone showing up at the historical society is one of those moments that sneaks up quiet-like, but it matters more than you'd think. Most folks driving through Rolla don't know there was a fort here at all—a
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Ty's Take Some weeks the news runs the gamut from the high to the low, and this is one of them—Shakespeare under the stars and kids learning to ride at Bridger right alongside a guilty plea on firearms charges and the Montana Public Service Commission getting serious
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Ty's Take The drilling concerns down in Arboles aren't new, but the fact that residents keep showing up to say so tells you something about what happens when outside money moves into somebody else's backyard. You can talk efficiency all you want—and Lord
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Ty's Take The news out of LANL Foundation and the county health council this week points to something this town knows but doesn't always say out loud: we're good at the big problems—the physics, the engineering, the infrastructure—but the harder work happens
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman, Clarence Villemez, Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan—four names in the paper this week, four people who lived their lives in this valley and left it different than they found it, the way it works here. You don't get to
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Ty's Take Two shooting deaths in Miller County in a week will do what nothing else can around here—it'll empty out the docks and quiet down the marinas faster than a summer storm rolling across the water. We don't like to think of
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Ty's Take A barbershop opening in a county seat of 2,000 doesn't sound like much until you remember that a barbershop is where men still gather, still talk, still belong to something. EK Barbershop is a Houston native coming home with capital and conviction, which
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Ty's Take We lost a few good ones this week—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, and Timothy—and the valley feels a little smaller when the names start stacking up like that. But what strikes me reading through the notices is how many of these folks spent their whole