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Ty's Take A bead business opening in Las Cruces doesn't sound like much until you remember what beads mean in this part of the world. They're tied to craft, to tradition, to the kind of handwork that's kept families fed and connected
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Ty's Take The Bulletin ran two pieces this week that, taken together, tell you something about what holds a valley together when everything else is changing. One marks the passing of Michelle Renee Sanders, a name that meant something to people around here. The other talks about the
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Ty's Take Coralie Bailey Carrier passed this week, and that's the kind of name that carries weight in a place like this. The Bulletin ran her notice, and if you've been around the Mesilla Valley long enough, you know what losing someone of her
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Ty's Take Two more names in the paper this week, and if you've lived in the valley long enough you probably knew one of them or knew somebody who did. Janice Brown made it to 82, David Reyes to 62, and that gap right there tells
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates was 84 when she passed, and Thomas Ocie Williams is gone too, which means the Mesilla Valley lost two more people who knew this country before most of us got here. You don't get obits in the paper without someone noticing,
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Ty's Take A bead shop opening in Las Cruces might not sound like much if you're not paying attention, but out here we know how these things work. The kind of small retail that takes root in a bigger town nearby can pull traffic and energy
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Ty's Take Michelle Renee Sanders passed this week, and if you knew her around Doña Ana County, you knew somebody who actually showed up. The Bulletin's piece doesn't give us much beyond the basics, but that's how it goes sometimes with obits,
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Ty's Take Losing someone at 92 means the valley loses a witness to better times and harder times both, the kind of person who remembers when water meant everything and still does. Bernie Carrillo carried that memory forward into a long life here, and the people who knew
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates and Thomas Ocie Williams, both gone this week, both names that meant something in the valley. That's how it works in towns like this, where you see the same families at the co-op, at church, at the roasting sheds when
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Ty's Take Somebody in the Mesilla Valley lost a good one this week. Michelle Renee Sanders, according to the notice in the Bulletin, was the kind of person who showed up for her community, and in a place like this where everybody's tied to the land
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Ty's Take Coralie Bailey Carrier was a fixture in this valley long enough to see the chile industry transform from something your grandfather did by hand into an operation that feeds half the Southwest. She lived through the droughts and the good years, watched I-25 get built