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Ty's Take Nearly two hundred boats towed off the lake in one season tells you something about how fast things can go wrong out there—and how many people aren't ready when they do. Between the fuel prices climbing, the weekend traffic building up, and all
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, longer still when the people supposed to be looking for them end up in the dock themselves. The charges coming down now against three people in the Tory Sanders case and the ongoing reckoning with former
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Ty's Take Kid from Albuquerque, couple hours north, drove down to Deming to rob somebody and ended up pleading guilty to it—which means the system worked the way it's supposed to, mostly, but also means we're still the place people come to when
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Ty's Take When a candidate gets arrested after a crash, when courts uphold a conviction, when auditors find problems in how the city spends money—those are the kinds of headlines that make you wonder what's really going on beneath the surface up here. We'
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Ty's Take The rails that built this place are mostly history now, which tells you something about how fast a region can remake itself when the economics shift. We've gone from empire to adaptation—coal giving way to refining and healthcare, the old transportation networks replaced
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Ty's Take Good to hear they found that missing woman safe—that's the kind of news that settles a whole county down. But what's stuck with me this week is watching the papers consolidate: Valley Courier and SLV Journal merging into one regional voice
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Ty's Take There's a thread running through this week's news that doesn't announce itself too loudly—it's the kind of thing you notice if you've watched the valley long enough. We've got foundations putting money into
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Ty's Take Four people gone in a medical flight that didn't make it home—that's the kind of loss that settles hard in a town built around aviation and emergency response. We don't have details yet, and Lincoln County's still
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Ty's Take These aviation events don't come around often in Howell County, and Saturday's Flying Start at the EAA chapter is the kind of thing that plants seeds—maybe in a kid who's never been close to a plane, maybe in someone
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Ty's Take A child shot in her own downtown on a Tuesday morning—that's the kind of thing that stops a town cold, and Silver City's going to feel this one for a while. The details are still coming in, but when gunfire finds
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Ty's Take The commissioners are meeting, the trolley's making noise again, and somebody's still worried about litter on the roadsides—which tells you everything you need to know about a Tuesday in Red Lodge. When a town this size can hold onto its institutions
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Ty's Take The legislature packed up and headed home last week after one hundred twenty days of trying to square circles—water rights, data centers, the whole mess of what Colorado's supposed to become. Down here we've got our own version of that same