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Ty's Take Three names in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, George Douglas Jackson at seventy—and they're the kind of losses that hit different in a town like this where you run into people's families at the grocery store or see
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Ty's Take Clarence Villemez worked this valley long enough to see the whole thing transform—the orchards give way to subdivisions, the water arguments get meaner every year, and the young people either leave or stay and figure out how to make it work anyway. His obit in
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Ty's Take There's a stretch in late May when the heat starts winning and folks are more likely to be found in front of a screen than out in it—the garden's planted, the summer projects haven't quite demanded full attention yet,
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent her life in this valley—the kind of person who knew everybody's name at the feed store and remembered which families had been here since before the interstates came through. Those aren't small things in a place
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to a Tuesday morning when the paper leads with the names of people who won't be around to read it. George Jackson made it to seventy; Paul Lawrence to eighty-four—both solid runs in this valley where
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Ty's Take There's something worth paying attention to in what people do with their hands when the world gets too loud. The Bulletin's piece on local artists finding their way back to creative work—painting, pottery, whatever it is that makes them lose track
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Ty's Take Three men who spent their lives in Doña Ana County—George Jackson at 70, Paul Lawrence at 84, Timothy Hourigan—are gone this week, and that's the kind of loss that settles different depending on who they were to you. The housing market'
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of silence that settles over a newsroom when the week's heaviest lift is the TV guide. We're talking about May in the valley—graduation season, pecan orchards in full green, the heat climbing toward the kind
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez ran a life the way you're supposed to run one in a place like this—showed up, did the work, helped the neighbors who needed helping, and didn't make a fuss about any of it. The Bulletin's notice
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Ty's Take The obits this week remind you that Las Cruces has real roots here—men who watched the valley change from orchards to suburbs, who raised families when water meant something different than it does now, who knew the town before the ring roads and the subdivisions
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Ty's Take May's a tough month around here—everybody's either out in the fields, at their kids' games, or glued to something on a screen they've been meaning to watch since March. Entertainment guide weeks like this one used to feel