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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams lived ninety-four years in a valley that changed more in his lifetime than most places see in a century. He was here when the Mesilla Valley was still mostly farmland, when you could count the stoplights on one hand, and he stayed
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week, and that's the kind of notice that stops you in a small town. You don't need the full obituary to know what it means around here—another person who remembers when things were different, who maybe
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone, which means two more people who knew this valley when it was different are no longer here to remember it out loud. The Bulletin also ran a piece this week about a local jeweler whose other life
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence "Clare" Villemez are gone, and that's the kind of loss that reminds you how small this valley really is. These weren't distant names in a paper, they were people who showed up, worked the
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in this valley means you saw the whole thing change, the way the river got fought over and the city grew out past the pecan orchards where his people worked. That's the kind of life you don&
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92 in a valley where that kind of longevity means you've seen the whole arc of modern agriculture, water politics, and what happens when a town decides what it's good at and sticks with it. The obits
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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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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 Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone this week, along with Shannyn Caldwell, and that's the kind of loss that hits different in a town like Las Cruces where you run into people at the Mesilla Valley Mall or the Farmers Market
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman worked these fields like most of us do, the kind of steady presence you don't think much about until the name shows up in the paper and you realize how many seasons she saw come and go. When you live
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Ty's Take August's heat keeps most of us indoors after dark, which means television's probably getting more eyeballs around Las Cruces than it does most months. With school starting up again in a couple weeks and football season ramping toward opening kickoff for the
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Ty's Take Not much stirring in the valley today, which means it's a good time to notice the people who've built something outside the obvious rhythms of planting and harvest. Down in Las Cruces they're running a piece about a fellow who&