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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez were the kind of people who made this valley run without ever needing a spotlight, and this week we're saying goodbye to both of them. You see their fingerprints everywhere in Las Cruces if you know where
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces transform from a town where everybody knew everybody to a city that's still trying to figure out who it is. That kind of long view matters, especially when you'
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Ty's Take Obit pages and TV guides don't usually stop you cold, but Thomas Ocie Williams' death notice landed different around here. He was the kind of guy who showed up, put in the work, knew half the valley by name. The faces you see
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both knew this valley long enough to watch it grow from something you could hold in your hand to something that keeps slipping through your fingers. The Bulletin's obits this week read like a roster of people
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces go from a crossroads town to a city that keeps spreading across land his generation knew by name. The Bulletin's notice doesn't say much, the way those pieces
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Ty's Take The TV guide lands in your mailbox like it always does, and most folks flip straight past it to the sports section or the classifieds. But there's something worth noticing in how our viewing habits have fractured over the years. What used to be
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams lived ninety-four years in a valley that changed more in his lifetime than most places see in a century. He was here when the Mesilla Valley was still mostly farmland, when you could count the stoplights on one hand, and he stayed
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone, which means two more people who knew this valley when it was different are no longer here to remember it out loud. The Bulletin also ran a piece this week about a local jeweler whose other life
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in this valley means you saw the whole thing change, the way the river got fought over and the city grew out past the pecan orchards where his people worked. That's the kind of life you don&
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams is gone, which means another piece of this valley's working history walks out the door. The Bulletin didn't run much, just the name and the basics, the way it goes sometimes when a man lived quiet and kept his
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone this week, along with Shannyn Caldwell, and that's the kind of loss that hits different in a town like Las Cruces where you run into people at the Mesilla Valley Mall or the Farmers Market
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Ty's Take August's heat keeps most of us indoors after dark, which means television's probably getting more eyeballs around Las Cruces than it does most months. With school starting up again in a couple weeks and football season ramping toward opening kickoff for the