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Ty's Take The news that Kyle Busch is gone hits different when you're sitting in a town where a lot of folks grew up watching him tear up the track—there's a whole generation of kids around Luna County who had posters on their
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands different when you're looking at your well gauge instead of a statewide map, and every farmer from here to the Florida Mountains knows it. New Mexico's been running on fumes for years, but Luna County
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Ty's Take That wrong-way crash on I-10 is the kind of story that stops you cold—one person dead, another facing homicide charges, and somewhere in between a series of choices that can't be unmade. We've all seen the highway safety campaigns,
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by what it chooses to tear down and what it chooses to protect. Deming's doing both this week—clearing out the Balboa's aging bones to make room for something the community actually needs, while
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch was 41 and at the top of his sport, which is the kind of thing that stops you cold no matter what you think you know about mortality. The racing world lost one of its fiercest competitors, and the rest of us got reminded
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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
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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
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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