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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
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which down here means you saw the valley change from irrigation ditches to modern farming, watched chile become a commodity instead of just what you grew to eat, and probably knew half the families in Doña Ana County by their
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates and Thomas Ocie Williams both left this world in recent days, and their names in the Bulletin remind us that the Hatch Valley's real wealth has never been measured in bushels or market prices. These were people who lived here, raised
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Ty's Take Michelle Renee Sanders, who spent forty-three years teaching in the Las Cruces schools, passed this week at eighty-four. That's a career that spanned generations in a region where teaching jobs don't come easy and don't pay like they
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Ty's Take The Hatch Valley runs on rhythms that outsiders don't always see, and one of them is how a community finds reasons to gather when the work gets hard. Labor Day weekend brings the Chile Festival, sure, but there's something quieter happening the
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw the valley change from irrigation ditches and family farms to what it is now, and probably had opinions about most of it. The other two pieces tell you something worth knowing: a young woman
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which around here means she saw this valley change more than most. She was around when the chile industry was still finding its footing, when water meant everything and still does, when Hatch was smaller and quieter than it