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Ty's Take You look at a slow summer week in a small county and you see the backbone of what holds a place together: folks stepping up to fund a camp for kids, a library getting steady leadership, teachers getting welcomed proper instead of just showing up to
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Ty's Take You can pass all the budgets you want and settle all the lawsuits sitting on the docket, but none of it matters much if the Rio Grande keeps doing what it's been doing. Water stays the only conversation that matters around here, whether the
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Ty's Take The money talk in Grant County this week keeps circling back to the same question: who gets to spend what we've got? Hurley's pushing for a bigger slice of that $26 million water fund, Silver City's eyeing more revenue through
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Ty's Take A thousand new homes in ten years sounds like progress until you live here and watch it happen. The housing study that landed this week confirms what anybody driving through town already knows: we're growing, fast, and most of us can't afford
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Ty's Take County folklore says you can read the winter ahead by splitting open an onion skin, and if those old signs are pointing toward something cold, the heat warnings slapped on us this week sure feel like they're making up for lost time. Storm crews
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Ty's Take John McCampbell turned 100 this week, and if you've spent any time around Red Lodge you've probably crossed paths with a man who actually did the things most of us just talk about doing. The piece about him looking back got me
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Ty's Take Rio Blanco Fire nearing full containment is the kind of news that lets you breathe easier around here, at least for now. The fire season never really ends in this country, not anymore, and every acre that stops burning is one less threat to the timber
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 8,000 acres and zero containment is the only story that matters this week, and if you've lived here since Cerro Grande or watched the ash from Las Conchas settle on your roof, you already know that. The
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Ty's Take You know a town's thinking about its future when it starts paying attention to how people move through it on foot. Lebanon's got the meeting scheduled, and that's worth showing up for if you've got an opinion about
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in this valley means you saw the whole thing change, the way the river got fought over and the city grew out past the pecan orchards where his people worked. That's the kind of life you don&
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Mostly Sunny · Tonight 78° Partly Cloudy · Sunday 96° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Sunrise Beach voters passed that tax increase for a reason, and now the work
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Ty's Take A missing girl found safe, two separate wrecks that could've gone worse, and a doctor at Texas County Memorial Hospital making the kind of split-second call that reminds you why having real medical talent in a county seat matters, even one this small.