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Ty's Take Drug sweeps across three counties in one week, vehicle wrecks sending kids to the hospital in Springfield, and the usual run of summer trouble—this is the stretch we hit every July, when heat and idle time seem to pull at people the wrong way. The
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Ty's Take When a semi burns on the interstate and suddenly Truth or Consequences becomes the detour route for everyone heading north, you get a quick reminder that we're not as isolated as we sometimes feel—and you also get a hard look at what our
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July deadline creeping up on Monday is one of those annual reminders that Silver City still knows how to throw a party, which matters more than people outside here seem to understand—a good parade and a few vendors hawking corn dogs and
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Ty's Take Summer's finally hitting its stride in Pagosa, and if you've been rationing your reasons to get out of the house, the next week or so is going to settle that. The 19th Hole wraps up its season with a concert on the
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent most of her life in this valley, which means she saw what Las Cruces was and what it's become—the orchards giving way to subdivisions, the quiet town turning into something busier and louder. The obituaries in a paper
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Ty's Take We've had three accidents in two days across the county—a teenager gone in Laclede, serious injuries on the lake at dawn, another pair hurt down in Miller—and the heat advisory isn't doing anybody any favors when tempers run short and
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Ty's Take Spencer Fordin's move over to Alamogordo is the kind of quiet shift you don't always notice until somebody's desk sits empty. He's been around these papers long enough to know what small-town journalism asks of you—the hours,
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Ty's Take We're heading into the Fourth of July with the nation's 250th birthday on the horizon next year, which means someone in town is already thinking about what Billings does when we mark a quarter-millennium. That's the kind of thing a
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Ty's Take Seventy-five years back, this paper was running stories about a world still getting used to the atomic age—Trinity had been dust for a year, and Alamogordo was trying to figure out what it meant to live downwind of that kind of history. Fast forward three
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Ty's Take Marshall Ray Miller, Logan Dwain-Day Tarleton, William "Bill" Flood, Delberta Williams, Kieth Reese—five names in the obits this week, which is how you measure a stretch of time out here, the folks who knew the roads and the seasons and which neighbor would
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Ty's Take Fire season's arrived early in the Gila, and that smoke hanging over the ridges isn't something to ignore. The Sacaton Fire's still in the wilderness country where it can run, but Red Flag Warnings tell you the conditions are primed
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Ty's Take You know it's spring in Red Lodge when Broadway starts looking like a construction zone and the city has to start telling people where they can't park. The Dead Swede project—that's the old hotel getting a long-overdue facelift—is