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Ty's Take The last dance hall in Silver City is closing its doors, and that's worth sitting with for a minute—not because we're losing some glamorous relic, but because places like the Flame were where this town actually lived. You could walk in
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Ty's Take The Eagles Nest has been part of Red Lodge's skyline longer than most of us have been alive, and watching it sit there broken after last year's floods has been like watching a neighbor's house fall into disrepair—you keep
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Ty's Take We're staring down November with a ballot full of hard choices, and the one that ought to keep county commissioners up at night is Initiative 175. Diverting state road funds sounds like a local fix until you remember that every dollar Colorado sends our
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Ty's Take That truck went down at the boat ramp near Bagnell Dam, and by now most folks around here know it—the water's been running high and fast, and the Osage doesn't forgive carelessness or bad luck the way the lake sometimes does.
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Ty's Take The museum funding cut stings because it always does—we trim the things that make a place worth living in, then wonder why our kids leave. But there's something worth watching in how the county's threading this needle: they're not
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Ty's Take The cops and courts log this week shows the usual scatter—nothing that shakes the county—but the real news is that the Sweet Grass Festival & Rodeo is back and promising an unforgettable weekend. After the years we've all had, that kind of
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Ty's Take The old ways don't disappear in the San Luis Valley—they just find new keepers. When a teacher brings abuela's recipes and stories into a classroom, that's not nostalgia, that's survival. This region's been holding onto
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Ty's Take Alamogordo took down Tularosa in a 10-12 tournament game the kind of win that doesn't make the state tournament brackets but means everything to the kids who played it and the parents who drove out to watch. These age-group tournaments are where you see
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Ty's Take Jack Pahlmann spent his years as West Plains mayor figuring out how to move the needle on a small-town budget, which is mostly about knowing who needs help, when, and how to ask without bruising anybody's pride—the kind of work that doesn'
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Ty's Take The Supreme Court's Texas v. New Mexico decision lands here like a stone in still water—it always does, eventually. Truth or Consequences sits downstream from every water fight upstream, and this town knows better than most that court rulings about the Rio Grande
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Ty's Take Bill Harrison turned 104 this week, which means he's watched Silver City transform from a mining town that knew exactly what it was into something a lot harder to define—and he's still here to see it. Meanwhile, a young man sits
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Ty's Take Stage 2 drought restrictions are here, which means the water conversation in Archuleta County just shifted from theoretical to real—and that's before we get into what comes next. You can talk all you want about energy-efficient schools and heat pump rebates, but none