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Ty's Take A fire pulled everybody's attention this week, the kind of call that brings the whole county to a standstill when the sirens start up, and there's nothing quite like seeing what our volunteer departments can do when seconds matter. In between the
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Ty's Take Tough week down in the courts, the kind that reminds you violence doesn't respect county lines or how far north you live. Two cases moving through the system now, one heading to district court and another man pleading guilty to beating his girlfriend, and
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Ty's Take Labor Day was made for this kind of weather, and Rose Park filled up the way it does when the season's turning and folks know summer's nearly gone. The photos tell you what the recap probably missed, the small details that make
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Ty's Take Carbon monoxide doesn't announce itself, which is probably why Monte Vista had to remind folks this week about checking their detectors and keeping vents clear of snow and debris. You'd think after a few hard winters people would have this down, but
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Ty's Take Joseph Cutts taking the magistrate bench is the kind of appointment that matters more than it sounds, especially in a county where water disputes, boundary lines, and neighbor-versus-neighbor dust-ups end up in his courtroom before they get anywhere near a district judge. The
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Ty's Take When you're reading down a list like this, you notice what the week is really about: people getting hurt and communities showing up anyway. A moped wreck, a side-by-side accident that pulled a 10-year-old girl into a helicopter ride nobody
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Ty's Take Water's the thread running through everything we do around here, and that hearing on the Copper Flat Mine coming up on the 17th is going to test whether we've learned anything about what we can and can't afford to give
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Ty's Take The Gem and Mineral Show coming back to Silver City this weekend is one of those events that reminds you this town sits at the crossroads of something real. You get the rockhounds and the geology professors rubbing shoulders with tourists who wandered off the trail
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Ty's Take Three vehicles tangled up on US-285 down in Saguache County, one person hauled to the hospital. That stretch of highway between here and Poncha Springs has always been a mixed bag, especially when folks are rolling between the valley and points south with their minds
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Ty's Take Street work around Rolla always hits different when it catches the main corridors, and closing sections of Sixth and Rolla streets is going to get people's attention for the next few weeks. This is the kind of project that doesn't make headlines
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Ty's Take Back-to-school season hit different this year, with PCI's fair drawing twice the crowd of last year, which tells you something about what folks around here are hungry for right now. You've got the garden columns running, the churches settling into
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Ty's Take Carmen Geoffrion turned a hundred years old this week, and somebody decided the right way to mark that was to paint her face on a rock in White Rock for the whole county to see. There's something deeply, unapologetically small-town about that move,