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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the valley change from irrigation ditches to pivot sprinklers, watched chile prices swing wild, and knew most everybody who came through. The Hatch Valley loses someone like that, you feel it in the
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which around here means she saw the valley change from something you could cross on horseback to what it is now. The Bulletin's notice doesn't say much, the way these things go, but any of
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which in farming country means she saw the Hatch Valley change from irrigation ditches you could wade across to the organized business it is now. Those years add up different when you're tied to a place, when
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams was the kind of man you see at the feed store or the courthouse, the ones who show up and do the work without much fanfare. He's gone now, and that leaves a hole in Doña Ana County that won'
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who spent most of his life around the Mesilla Valley, passed this week at 89. The obituary doesn't say much, the way they usually don't, but around here we know what those years meant. They meant watching this valley
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both lived long enough to see this valley transform from something quieter into what it is now, and that kind of witness matters more than we usually admit in a newspaper. The piece on the jeweler who loved golf
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone, and that means two more threads cut from the fabric of the Mesilla Valley. You don't need to have known them personally to know what their passing means in a place like this, where families
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92 in a town that's changed more in his lifetime than most places change in three centuries, and folks around here will remember him for showing up, year after year, in a community that needed people who stayed put.
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the valley change more times than most folks care to remember. The obit doesn't say what he did or where his roots ran, but that's how it goes in
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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