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Ty's Take The library's dinosaur summer reading program and the city council's Monday night session on animal control and zoning might seem like separate stories, but they're really the same conversation—what does West Plains look like five, ten years from now?
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Ty's Take Every July, Elephant Butte fills with boats and fireworks and people remembering why they moved here in the first place, and there's nothing wrong with that—a town needs its celebrations. But you can't help noticing the city commission spending its energy
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Ty's Take A kid doing community work gets recognized, first responders are bracing for fentanyl exposure, and the county just voted to keep the mining companies out of Pinos Altos—all on the same news cycle, which tells you something about where Silver City is right now. We&
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Ty's Take Summer tourist season is already on everybody's mind up here, which makes sense—it's the difference between a good year and a lean one for most of the businesses holding on in Red Lodge. The Park Service released their visitor guide for
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Ty's Take The screwworm alert coming down from Colorado Parks and Wildlife is the kind of thing folks around here used to worry about plenty—livestock losses that could gut a ranching operation in weeks—and then stopped worrying about because we'd beaten it back decades
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman's obituary ran in yesterday's paper, and by now half the valley's heard she's gone—the kind of woman who showed up, who remembered names, who didn't need to make a show of
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Ty's Take Two fatalities on our highways this week, a couple more serious injuries, and that's just what made the scanner before Friday morning—which tells you something about the stretch we're in. Summer weekends bring more traffic, more speed, more boats full of
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration hit different this morning when you're sitting in Luna County looking at another dry year and thinking about what that means for the chile fields come August. Statewide proclamations are fine for Santa Fe, but down here we&
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Ty's Take An inmate dies in custody, someone's siphoning gas out at the Coronado, and up the road a man's under the influence of something that has the law worried—it's the kind of week that reminds you how thin the line
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Ty's Take When a barn burns in Lockwood and good people pass in Billings, when a man faces murder charges and the city discovers it's been breaking its own rules, you get the kind of week that reminds you why local government and local journalism matter—
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Ty's Take Ted Turner's land deals over the past few decades have quietly reshaped how a lot of us think about conservation in ranch country—whether we admitted it or not at the time. The man bought up pieces of Montana and Wyoming when nobody else
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Ty's Take There's something about watching the Class of 2026 walk across that stage that reminds you why towns like this hold on, even when the economics are mean and the young people are scarce. These kids grew up in a place where water rights matter