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Ty's Take Couple of our kids made the Northwest College Honor Roll this semester, which means they're carrying Big Timber's name up to Powell and holding their own in the classroom—worth noting in a county where half the seniors head straight to work
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Ty's Take Politics moves slow in these mountains, which is probably why nobody's in any hurry to settle the term-limits question—Conejos County commissioners are kicking it to the voters and calling it democracy, which it is, though it also sounds like a way to buy
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Ty's Take Kathy Woods stepping down after however many years she's put in at City Hall marks one of those quiet transitions this town barely notices until she's already gone—and then everyone remembers what they're losing. Meanwhile the council's
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Ty's Take The Rainbow Futurity trials out at the track draw the kind of crowd that reminds you there's still real money and real passion in horse country around here, even with all the talk about missile ranges and space hotels eating up the basin. Two
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Ty's Take School budgets don't make headlines unless they have to, and West Plains' board meeting this week hit that moment—enrollment's sliding, revenue's tightening, and there's no magic money waiting at the end of the fiscal year. It&
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Ty's Take Ryan Williams didn't mince words this week—we're on our own when it comes to FEMA money, which means Sierra County's emergency services are running on fumes and local grit. That's the real story underneath the Texas v.
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a week where we're wrestling with water rates and a deputy's plea deal while honoring the men who survived the Bataan Death March—the kind of day-to-day stuff that actually matters in a place like Silver
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Ty's Take Highway 160 torn up again, water running short, and half the county wondering if we're going to price ourselves out of existence before the next big fire season hits—but here we are anyway, still showing up to tell our stories at the history
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez was the kind of man who showed up—to the fields at dawn, to the church on Sunday, to help a neighbor move irrigation pipe when the Rio Grande ran low. He spent his life in the Mesilla Valley doing work that doesn'
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Ty's Take Summer around the lake always brings the same tug-of-war—more tourists, more traffic, more small accidents that remind us how fast things move when the season kicks in. Between the motorcycle fatality, the Highway 54 pileup, and what sounds like it was a rough shift for
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, and this county knows something about that kind of waiting. The charges that came down this week in the Tory Sanders case—three people now facing murder counts, former lawmen facing their own reckoning—mark the
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Deming loses someone like Kyle Busch—a guy who made it to the absolute top of his sport and kept winning—it hits different than the usual celebrity news that scrolls past. But what sticks with me is that our