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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked construction around the Mesilla Valley for decades, passed this week at 89. The obituary doesn't say much more than that, which is how these things usually go in a weekly paper, but any contractor or laborer who spent time
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week, and if you've been around the valley long enough, you knew him or knew of him. These small towns run on people who show up, who know the land and the work, who don't make a
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez were the kind of people who made this valley run without ever needing a spotlight, and this week we're saying goodbye to both of them. You see their fingerprints everywhere in Las Cruces if you know where
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both spent their years in this valley, and now both are gone, which is the kind of week that reminds you how small these communities really are. You see the names in the paper and you know the families,
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces transform from a town where everybody knew everybody to a city that's still trying to figure out who it is. That kind of long view matters, especially when you'
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farm country means you saw the whole arc of how things work around here. You watched the valley change, watched the families stay or move on, watched what happened when the water came reliable and what happened when
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Ty's Take Obit pages and TV guides don't usually stop you cold, but Thomas Ocie Williams' death notice landed different around here. He was the kind of guy who showed up, put in the work, knew half the valley by name. The faces you see
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of reading the paper. Right now that's the chile harvest in full swing, trucks rolling before dawn toward the roasters, and nobody's sitting down with the TV
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who spent most of his life in this valley, passed this week at 89. We don't have much beyond the notice, which is how it goes some days, but anybody who's been around Hatch long enough knows that every
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both knew this valley long enough to watch it grow from something you could hold in your hand to something that keeps slipping through your fingers. The Bulletin's obits this week read like a roster of people
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both passed this week, which means two more names coming down off the roster of people who knew this valley before the interstates got so busy, before the suburbs started creeping north from Las Cruces. That's how
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces go from a crossroads town to a city that keeps spreading across land his generation knew by name. The Bulletin's notice doesn't say much, the way those pieces