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Ty's Take You don't rebuild a town by keeping everything the way it's always been, and Lebanon's moving on that idea this week—new turf on the ballfields so kids aren't playing in the dust, a fresh look at the
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Ty's Take Fuel prices dropping is always good news for anybody running a boat around here, and Lord knows we need a break—but it's worth remembering that the lake's drawn all kinds over fifty-nine years, the ones looking for a weekend getaway and
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Ty's Take When a county of our size gets its justice center wired up with Starlink backup internet, it's worth noticing—not because satellite internet is news anywhere else, but because out here it means our dispatch center, our records, our whole ability to respond doesn&
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time for a community to hold its breath, and Shannon County's finally exhaling now that three people face murder charges in the Tory Sanders case. What takes nearly a decade to prosecute tells you something about how tangled this
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Ty's Take Between the governor's drought declaration, fire season bearing down, and screwworm warnings already circulating, this is the time of year when ranchers and farmers around Luna County earn their coffee before sunrise. The heat's coming hard and early, water's tighter
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Ty's Take Fiesta season is already spinning up down the valley, which means the whole corridor—from here in Chama country all the way south through Abiquiú and into Española—is about to remember who it is and where it comes from. These aren't tourist pageants
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in today's paper—a paleo artist down in Miles City capturing what looks like the last moments of a dinosaur, a kid from here heading to St. Louis to speak her mind, and meanwhile we're
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Ty's Take Making the honor roll at Northwest College doesn't happen by accident, especially when you're commuting down from Sweet Grass County and working a job on the side like most kids do out here. These students earned their names on that list the
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Ty's Take Primary numbers are in across the valley, and the usual suspects are running strong—but the real story is how quiet the turnout stayed even with the term limits question sitting right there on the ballot. Commissioners are doing what they always do when the hard
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Ty's Take The water trial's back in session this week, and if you've been paying attention to the arguments about aquifer recovery and what constitutes a "reasonable time period," you already know this isn't some abstract legal matter—it'
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Ty's Take The election map in Otero County's been getting redrawn enough times that most folks have stopped trying to predict which way the wind's blowing come November. We've got military votes, ranching votes, tech economy votes all pulling in different directions,
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Ty's Take Three traffic fatalities in one week across our corner of the Ozarks is the kind of stretch that settles over a community like fog you can't quite shake. You see the names and the routes—Hartville, Wright County, Peace Valley—and you know these