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Ty's Take The Great Sand Dunes pulled in record crowds these past four months, which means the valley's biggest draw is doing what it was meant to do—bringing people out here to see what we live with every day. But those visitors rolling through on
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Ty's Take New Mexico's high school athletic association is taking another crack at the transfer rules, and around here that means something. Holloman's got kids coming and going with reassignments, families chasing base moves, ranching operations pulling kids out to help with seasonal work—
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Ty's Take When money actually finds its way to the classroom and into the hands of kids who need it, you notice. The Paula Kaye Speraneo fund is putting real dollars into West Plains schools this month, and the state's rural education grants landed here too—
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Ty's Take The budget dust-up heating up downtown is the same argument we've been having for twenty years—whether this town survives on the backs of people trying to keep the lights on and water running, or whether we finally build something that doesn'
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Ty's Take The Continental Divide Trail reroute over Boston Hill is one of those small-town puzzles that doesn't look like much until you're standing in it—town council worried about foot traffic on a steep stretch, hikers wanting reliable water and shade, and
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Ty's Take Two good people are walking out the schoolhouse door after 53 years of combined service, and that's the kind of story that catches up with a town like ours whether we're paying attention or not. O'Donnell and Jordan didn'
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Ty's Take Two people dead in the water this week—one trapped in a low-head dam, another in circumstances still being sorted out—and a sheriff's deputy nearly killed when a pursuit went sideways at a low-water crossing. That's the kind of
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Ty's Take Fire season's here, screwworms are back, and somebody's kid died on I-10 because of a wrong-way driver who'd been drinking. Meanwhile the water park's opening, which means summer's coming whether we're ready
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in the way this region keeps finding uses for what it's got. That data center project out near Sidney—burning off natural gas that would otherwise flare into the sky—isn't flashy, but it's
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of making news that lands a sheriff's report. The courts log shows the usual mix—traffic, small-time stuff, the kind of routine that keeps Sweet Grass County humming
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Ty's Take A plane down east of South Fork, a local band coming home to Society Hall, and a couple of reminders that this valley's kids are dealing with things that don't show up on a weather report—that's the news moving
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Ty's Take You notice how the valley keeps trying to take care of itself in small, steady ways—the city installing traffic cameras to make streets safer, schools and nonprofits doubling down on mental health because they see what's happening to their kids, the communities still