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Ty's Take The Stillhouse Junkies coming back to Society Hall is the kind of thing that reminds you why people stick around the valley—live music in a room where everybody knows everybody, the kind of night that costs nothing but means everything. But what caught my eye
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Ty's Take When you're a newspaper editor in a valley this old, you learn that the hard news and the good news often come on the same day—a missing woman found safe, a fire that could've been worse but wasn't, the
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Ty's Take Anastacia "Tatcha" Thomas was the kind of person this town needs more of—someone who showed up, stayed put, and made things better in the quiet way that doesn't always make the papers until it's too late. We don'
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Ty's Take Monday's Road to Remember ceremony will draw folks who've made the hard walk to that wall, and this week Willow Springs is putting out the welcome mat with Music on Main and getting ready for their Fourth parade—the kind of summer
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how Williamsburg's stormwater plan threads the needle between growth and the Rio Grande—fix the streets, control runoff, protect the river that keeps this whole county alive. Meanwhile, the BLM is fast-tracking a pipeline review for
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to Memorial Day out here, where half the county seems to have someone buried at Fort Bayard and the other half is still out working the land those people fought for. This year's ceremony falls right as fire
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Ty's Take The stack of stories this week—wildfire prep costs climbing, water staying tight, geothermal schemes eyeing our backyard—keeps circling back to the same hard truth about living here: paradise costs something, and it's not just the second-mortgage payment. We can host festivals
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Ty's Take Five people hurt when a boat clips a submerged log, a restaurant gutted by fire overnight, and another reminder that the lake we love can turn on us fast—that's this week around the water. The good news is buried in here too, though:
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Ty's Take The closure notices keep coming for rural clinics across the region, and Seeley Swan Medical Center's mounting deficits are just the latest chapter in a story Billings knows too well—we're the fallback when smaller towns can't hold the line.
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Ty's Take Money moving through the shadows in a New Mexico primary always leaves a trail, even when somebody's built a nonprofit wall to hide behind. Same voters who trust their neighbors with cattle deals and water rights are supposed to believe they can't
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Ty's Take Two people dead on the roads this weekend, another from whatever was happening in that house in Squires, and a young man from Mountain View gone Saturday night—that's the kind of stretch that reminds you how fast things can turn out here, how
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Ty's Take Graduation, Memorial Day, and the annual FFA banquet all stacked up this week—the kind of calendar that reminds you this town still runs on the old rhythms, even with Spaceport America drawing eyes toward the stars. These aren't the flashy stories that make