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Ty's Take The burglary string hitting our county the last few weeks reminds you that trouble doesn't care much about population size—six thousand people means six thousand places to case, and nowhere's really too small to bother with. What matters now is whether
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Silver City turns out for Memorial Day and then spills into Gough Park for Blues Fest the same weekend, you're looking at people who still know how to gather—rain or shine, and apparently after a structure fire
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Ty's Take Water's always been the argument that matters most in high country, and this week the Southwestern Water Conservation District found their person to settle some of it—at least on paper. The new general manager's got to thread a needle that gets
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent her life in this valley—the kind of person who knew everybody's name at the feed store and remembered which families had been here since before the interstates came through. Those aren't small things in a place
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of recklessness that shows up when young people think the lake is theirs alone—and this weekend we got a reminder that it comes in more flavors than just bad judgment behind the wheel of a boat. An 18-year-old pepper-spraying
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration this week hits different when you're standing in Luna County watching the sky the color of old concrete and the fire danger map painted red from here to the Sacramento peaks. We've been through dry spells
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Ty's Take The Barela situation up in Rio Arriba is the kind of mess that sticks around longer than anybody wants it to—a judge telling the county GOP chair he's got to go, and now the real work begins, which isn't the legal
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Ty's Take The city's move to stand up an airport authority is the kind of structural housekeeping that doesn't make anybody's blood pump faster, but it matters more than the headline suggests. Billings-Logan is already the busiest airport between Denver and Seattle,
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Ty's Take The Crazy Mountain Museum's expansion might seem like a quiet local story, but it's actually a reminder of what happens when a community decides its own history matters enough to protect it. Out here, we've watched too many small towns
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Ty's Take Watching the Class of 2026 walk across that stage at Conejos High is watching the valley decide who stays and who goes—and that math never gets easier. Some of these kids will come back to ranching or farming or running a business on Main Street,
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Ty's Take Graduation week in a town like Alamosa hits different when half the kids leaving have roots going back generations—families who've worked this valley, fought over water rights, built something that matters. You see them walk across that stage and you're watching
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Ty's Take The Chamber's got new blood at the helm after Jerrett Perry's retirement, which is the kind of transition that matters more than it looks on the surface—these directors are the ones threading the needle between what Holloman needs, what the ranching