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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week, and that's the kind of notice that stops you in a small town. You don't need the full obituary to know what it means around here—another person who remembers when things were different, who maybe
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence "Clare" Villemez are gone, and that's the kind of loss that reminds you how small this valley really is. These weren't distant names in a paper, they were people who showed up, worked the
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92 in a valley where that kind of longevity means you've seen the whole arc of modern agriculture, water politics, and what happens when a town decides what it's good at and sticks with it. The obits
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked these fields and knew every irrigation ditch between here and Rincon, passed this week at 89. You don't see many obituaries that don't need explaining around a farming town, but his kind did. He was the water,
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman worked these fields like most of us do, the kind of steady presence you don't think much about until the name shows up in the paper and you realize how many seasons she saw come and go. When you live
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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