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Ty's Take Two of our neighbors made the trip to Indianapolis and came home with some hardware from the National Beta Club competition—the kind of thing that doesn't make the national news but means everything in a house where somebody's kid stayed up
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Ty's Take When the emergency services director tells you we're on our own with FEMA funding, it lands different in a county where the Rio Grande is both lifeline and wildcard, where monsoon season can turn a dry wash into a real problem in an hour,
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Ty's Take A Grant County jury's guilty verdict, a governor's provocative remark that'll echo through every diner from here to Deming, and a special meeting about the museum—three stories that probably feel unconnected until you live here long enough to understand
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Ty's Take You notice right away that half the news this week circles back to the same hard truth: we're living in a landscape that's becoming less forgiving. The forest health tour up on Cade Mountain, the screwworm warnings creeping north, the Colorado River
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Ty's Take Clarence Villemez spent seventy-eight years in this valley—long enough to watch the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande get crowded out by subdivisions, long enough to see what irrigation built and what thirst takes away. The obituary doesn't say much, the way they
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Ty's Take Three motorcycle gang members pleading guilty to charges stemming from a 2021 gunfight on the Strip is the kind of story that reminds you how fast things can turn ugly around here, even in a place built for fun. The lake draws all kinds—families towing
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch was 41 years old, which means a whole generation of kids in this town grew up watching him tear up a racetrack—some of them probably out in the garage right now working on their own machines, dreaming the same dream. You don'
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Ty's Take Election season up here tends to move slower than down in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, which gives a man time to think about what actually matters when somebody comes through asking for your vote. The gubernatorial race is starting to take shape, and you'll
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Ty's Take The trial starting today at Canyon Creek Memory Care cuts to something that haunts every family in eastern Montana—the question of who's watching over our elderly when we can't be there ourselves. Nursing homes and care facilities are supposed to be
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Ty's Take You know what a Monday briefing means in a town this size—somebody's got to pull the week together before anybody else gets moving. That's the work that doesn't make headlines, the editor or the city clerk or whoever'
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Ty's Take When a small paper loses an editor and gains one in the same breath, you're looking at the kind of transition that either steadies a ship or rocks it hard—and in a town this size, everybody knows which way the current's
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Ty's Take Most days the news that lands on the desk gets sorted pretty quick—what matters here, what doesn't. But this morning you've got Chicago violence running against a water main break in Mountain View, college sports legislation against a motorcycle wreck near