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Ty's Take There's something about watching a class walk across the stage in May that reminds you why these small towns hold together at all—those kids are the ones who'll decide whether Alamosa stays rooted or empties out like so many valley towns
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Ty's Take Freddie Duran's been strumming that guitar and filling notebooks long enough that most of us around here know his name before we know his face. There's something about a musician who writes—he's got to make sense of two languages
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Ty's Take Mid-week around Howell County reads like it always does—some trouble on the roads, a couple of folks tangled up with the law, life moving along with its regular mix of accident and intent. But there's something worth holding onto in the noise:
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Ty's Take The municipal airport board's looking at a new master plan, which around here is code for: we're trying to figure out how to grow without choking on our own dust. Truth or Consequences sits in a weird sweet spot—close enough to
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Ty's Take Fires on the Gila always bring out the best in our people—crews mobilized, evacuation plans practiced, neighbors checking on neighbors—and the fact that this one got contained before it spread is exactly the kind of good news we need heading into summer. But while
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Ty's Take Norrine turning 96 and still got the spark to celebrate it—that's the kind of staying power this town runs on, whether you're talking about a woman they call the Outlaw Queen or the businesses cutting ribbons and opening new chapters around
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Ty's Take The BLM's push to lease parcels for oil and gas drilling in this county isn't new—it's the rhythm of federal land management, the same dance we've done for decades. But it's hitting different now, because
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Ty's Take Not much shaking in the news today, which this time of year usually means everybody's either out in the fields or sitting in a dark theater trying to escape the heat. June in the Valley's like that—the chile's coming
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Ty's Take Highway 7 claimed another life this week—a head-on that left one dead and three hurt, the kind of collision that stops you cold when you see the emergency lights. We've had the conversations around here a hundred times about that stretch of
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Ty's Take Mining built Montana and mining's still what keeps the lights on here in Billings, which is why that deep dive into the Treasure State's mineral heritage matters more than a history lesson—it's a reminder of who we are and
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Ty's Take There's been a lot of talk lately about food deserts and what happens when the nearest decent grocery is forty minutes down the road, but most of that conversation happens in university towns and state capitals where people argue about problems they don'
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Ty's Take Three nights of good music rolling through the valley—Walt Wilkins down in Antonito, then Kelloff's road show up in Alamosa, then whatever's coming next at Society Hall—says something about where we are right now. In a county where the land