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Ty's Take Every August, there's that moment when the back seats get loaded up and somebody's kid heads out the door with a duffel bag and a half-smile, and the house feels different after they leave. That's what's happening
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams is gone, which means another piece of this valley's working history walks out the door. The Bulletin didn't run much, just the name and the basics, the way it goes sometimes when a man lived quiet and kept his
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 99° Sunny · Tonight 80° Partly Cloudy · Wednesday 100° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take We've got three serious vehicle accidents scattered across the region this week, which
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Ty's Take Football season's coming but the bleachers won't be ready when the Tigers take the field for their home opener, thanks to track construction that's pushed the game back a week or two. It's the kind of scheduling headache
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked these fields and knew every irrigation ditch between here and Rincon, passed this week at 89. You don't see many obituaries that don't need explaining around a farming town, but his kind did. He was the water,
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Ty's Take Eight years is a long time to wait for answers, but around here we've learned patience comes with the territory when it comes to serious crimes. The arrest warrants finally issued in the Tory Sanders case represent something this county needed, whether folks believe
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Ty's Take Small towns run on the people willing to show up for both the big moments and the everyday grind, and this week we're seeing both sides of that coin. One's a feel-good distraction about a couple's wedding plans that&
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Ty's Take Fire season comes early up here, and the Forest Service closure order on Frijoles tells you the dry spell we've been running isn't finished with us yet. Those of us who've lived through years in this country know what temporary
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Ty's Take A motorcycle crash that shut down Rimrock Road is a hard reminder that summer riding season around here moves fast, and so do the consequences when things go wrong. We see these calls come through, and every time it's somebody's husband or
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Ty's Take Primary elections come and go in counties like ours, and most folks don't think much about the preliminary results until the general rolls around in the fall. But these numbers matter now because they tell us who's got momentum heading into the
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Ty's Take Heat like this in the Valley hits different when you're older and stuck inside an air-conditioned room, which is probably why someone at the senior center had the sense to plan a mercadillo for folks who need to get out and move around
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Ty's Take When a Supreme Court decision hinges on what a camera did or didn't capture, you're looking at the kind of case that haunts a small region for years. The video tossed from the Artesia newborn murder case won't disappear from