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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&
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who ran the feed store on Main for near about forty years, passed this week at eighty-six. Most folks around here don't think about how many seasons a man like that holds together, watching the same families come through the
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman taught school here for forty years, which in a valley this size means she knew half the families by their kids and the other half by their grandkids. Clarence Villemez worked the land and raised his own, the way most of us
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Ty's Take Slow week down in the valley, which around here usually means people are either out in the fields or taking what little break they can get before the real heat of late summer settles in. The Bulletin's got a piece on a local who
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Ty's Take That headline out of Las Cruces doesn't tell us much, but when you're talking about the Noble Spear down in the Mesilla Valley, you're talking about one of the places that knows how to tell a New Mexico story right.
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Ty's Take The notice board fills up this time of year, not always the way we want it to. Carol Ann Knapp Foreman, Clarence Villemez, Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, all part of the fabric of the valley that most of us don't think about until
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Ty's Take Most weeks around here you can read the Bulletin and know exactly what's happening down in Las Cruces, which is fine—that's their beat. But when a story about creativity and balance lands in the valley papers, it's worth paying
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Ty's Take We lost a few good ones this week—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, and Timothy—and the valley feels a little smaller when the names start stacking up like that. But what strikes me reading through the notices is how many of these folks spent their whole
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Ty's Take Slow week in the valley, which around here usually means everybody's out in the fields or already thinking about the next harvest cycle. The TV guide hits different when you're a farming town—half the county's probably still outside at
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Ty's Take The obits this week remind you that Hatch loses people steady—Carol Ann, Clare, Shannyn, Timothy—names that belonged to families who worked these fields and knew the valley when it was smaller and the chile harvest meant something different than it does now. But there&
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Ty's Take Not much stirring in the news cycle this week—that's what July looks like down here when the heat settles in and folks are either in the fields or staying put in the shade. The entertainment guide is about all the wire's