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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 A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed somebody this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of story that reminds you how fast things turn catastrophic out here, especially when alcohol's involved. Meanwhile, the town's getting ready for summer with a
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Ty's Take Metal detectors at the junior high and high school—that's the kind of sentence that would've landed like a joke twenty years ago, but here we are, and Deming Schools is moving forward with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses. It'
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Ty's Take Word came through today that Kyle Busch is gone at 41, and even if you're not the type to sit through a full race, that one lands different in a border town where people work with their hands and understand what it takes to
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration came down the wire today, and if you've been outside in Luna County the last few weeks you already knew it. The heat's been sitting on us like a blanket, the monsoon's running late,
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of tragedy that hits different out here, where that interstate is the spine of everything we do, where families cross it to work, where goods move through it day
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Ty's Take Summer's finally coming to Deming, and that inflatable water park opening up is exactly the kind of thing families around here have been waiting for—cheap fun when the thermometer hits 100 and you've got kids who need somewhere to cool off
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write about putting metal detectors in their kids' schools, but here we are. The Deming school board's moving ahead with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses—that's the reality of 2024, whether we like it or not—and
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Ty's Take Saturday's free pet adoption event at DAGSHIP is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town where people are usually focused on making ends meet, but it matters more than it sounds. A lot of folks around Luna County can't
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Ty's Take Kid from Albuquerque, couple hours north, drove down to Deming to rob somebody and ended up pleading guilty to it—which means the system worked the way it's supposed to, mostly, but also means we're still the place people come to when
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Ty's Take Every August when the heat settles in and people start thinking about back-to-school, somebody around here remembers that not every kid in Luna County walks into September with a full backpack. Stuff The Bus has been running long enough now that folks know the drill—you
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed someone yesterday, and now faces a homicide charge tied to impaired driving—the kind of tragedy that doesn't need much explaining, just acknowledging. Same day, the DAGSHIP grant came through to fund hundreds of spay and neuter surgeries