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Ty's Take Road work on the pass is never great timing, but May's when it has to happen—weather window closes fast up there. What catches the eye this week, though, is how many of these stories circle back to the same thing: people in this
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Ty's Take Three men who spent their lives in Doña Ana County—George Jackson at 70, Paul Lawrence at 84, Timothy Hourigan—are gone this week, and that's the kind of loss that settles different depending on who they were to you. The housing market'
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Ty's Take Memorial Day weekend's going to pack the lake harder than most years, and that tow report ought to worry anybody who spends time out there—nearly 200 rescues in a season tells you people are running fuel tanks empty, running boats they don'
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Ty's Take Saturday's free pet adoption event at DAGSHIP is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town where people are usually focused on making ends meet, but it matters more than it sounds. A lot of folks around Luna County can't
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write the police blotter story, but it's the one that matters most some days—especially up here where you know half the people involved, directly or through blood. A vehicle theft that gets blamed on addiction isn't just a
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Ty's Take Michael Dougherty's been the district attorney here long enough that most folks have forgotten he ever had to run for the job. That's usually when a prosecutor knows he's doing something right—when the position stops feeling like politics and
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of Thursday afternoon energy in a town like this—when the weather breaks just enough that people start remembering there's life to be lived beyond keeping the heat on, and suddenly you've got a comedy playing
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Ty's Take Alamogordo High's softball team made the state tournament on heart and timing, which is about all you can ask of kids who've been grinding since February. They came up short this week—that's how tournaments work—and somebody's
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in that Walmart-Amazon race to speed up deliveries out here—because the real winner isn't going to be whichever company cuts a few days off shipping times, it's going to be whoever figures out that
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Ty's Take The pool opens Memorial Day weekend, which used to mean summer was really here—now it mostly means another round of belt-tightening for families already watching their utility bills climb. The hummingbird fire's contained but the fire watch stays active, which anybody who&
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Ty's Take The county's taking a hard look at what we've actually got to work with when it comes to tourism—inventory and strategy, they're calling it—and that's the kind of unglamorous thinking that keeps a place from getting
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Ty's Take The pattern's becoming hard to miss: fire code, hydrant pressure, reconstruction scrutiny, and now wildfire resilience standards all landing on the table at once. That's not coincidence in a town ringed by National Forest where the last big burn is still fresh