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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which in farming country means she saw the Hatch Valley change from irrigation ditches you could wade across to the organized business it is now. Those years add up different when you're tied to a place, when
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who spent most of his life around the Mesilla Valley, passed this week at 89. The obituary doesn't say much, the way they usually don't, but around here we know what those years meant. They meant watching this valley
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone, and that means two more threads cut from the fabric of the Mesilla Valley. You don't need to have known them personally to know what their passing means in a place like this, where families
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the valley change more times than most folks care to remember. The obit doesn't say what he did or where his roots ran, but that's how it goes in
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week, and if you've been around the valley long enough, you knew him or knew of him. These small towns run on people who show up, who know the land and the work, who don't make a
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both spent their years in this valley, and now both are gone, which is the kind of week that reminds you how small these communities really are. You see the names in the paper and you know the families,
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farm country means you saw the whole arc of how things work around here. You watched the valley change, watched the families stay or move on, watched what happened when the water came reliable and what happened when
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working instead of reading the paper. Right now that's the chile harvest in full swing, trucks rolling before dawn toward the roasters, and nobody's sitting down with the TV
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who spent most of his life in this valley, passed this week at 89. We don't have much beyond the notice, which is how it goes some days, but anybody who's been around Hatch long enough knows that every
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both passed this week, which means two more names coming down off the roster of people who knew this valley before the interstates got so busy, before the suburbs started creeping north from Las Cruces. That's how
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the whole arc of it, the good seasons and the dry ones, the way a valley changes when the water holds and the way it tightens when it doesn't. The Mesilla
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Ty's Take Slow week up the Mesilla Valley, which around here usually means everybody's either out in the fields or in the packing sheds where the real work happens this time of year. The entertainment guide landed instead of hard news, and that's fine,