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Ty's Take Clare Villemez worked this valley for eighty-some years, and obituaries in a town like this aren't just names in a box—they're the thread count of what holds us together. When you lose someone who planted roots here deep enough to see
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Ty's Take Highway W claimed another life this week—a Versailles man dead in a rollover that reminds us these lake roads don't forgive distraction or bad luck the way city streets sometimes do. Meanwhile the water's acting up again: boil orders in Eldon,
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Ty's Take The news that Kyle Busch is gone hits different when you're sitting in a town where a lot of folks grew up watching him tear up the track—there's a whole generation of kids around Luna County who had posters on their
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Ty's Take Somebody in this valley beat up a seventeen-year-old badly enough that a forty-five-year-old is now facing charges, and that's the kind of thing that used to stay quiet in small towns—got handled family-to-family or not at all. These days the sheriff's
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Ty's Take Three high schools walking their seniors across the stage this week, and you see it every year—the relief on parents' faces, the kids grinning like they've already figured out what comes next. But the real story's quieter. It's
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Ty's Take There's something about a Friday night at Society Hall that still draws people together the way it always has—live music, neighbors you see at the co-op or the post office suddenly lit up in a different way, the kind of evening that reminds
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Ty's Take Two papers coming together in the San Luis Valley usually means one thing—we're all trying to figure out how to keep doing this work when the economics keep squeezing tighter. The Valley Courier and SLV Journal merger is the kind of move you
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Ty's Take Nobody expects much to happen at a broadcasters' meeting, which probably explains why Haaland and Hull shook hands for thirty seconds and called it a day. This is what passes for a campaign moment in a military town where most folks are too busy with
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Ty's Take This week you've got everything from a 250th America parade down in Willow Springs to a murder case grinding to a halt, a veteran finding his way back through the VA, and some guy up in Alton who apparently decided to visit other people&
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Ty's Take The commission's interim budget reads like a wish list from folks who've forgotten what happens when the Rio Grande runs low and Elephant Butte can't cover the irrigation season. You can talk goals and improvements all you want, but this
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Ty's Take A negligence finding against Gila Regional and one of its doctors over a patient death is the kind of story that shakes a town's faith in the place where most of us end up sooner or later—and for some, don't leave
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Ty's Take Summer's coming early to the planning stages around here, which means the phones at the chamber are already ringing with folks trying to figure out the Yellowstone puzzle. The park puts out these lists every couple years—parking tips, trail conditions, when the geysers