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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how NMSU keeps threading the needle between what it was and what it's becoming. The university's always been the spine of this valley—Aggie football on Saturday, research dollars flowing into the ag college, kids
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman, Clarence Villemez, Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan—four names in the paper this week, four people who lived their lives in this valley and left it different than they found it, the way it works here. You don't get to
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Ty's Take Dog days of summer and the TV guide is what we're working with—which tells you everything about how quiet things get around here come mid-July. But that's not nothing. It means the schools are empty, the Aggies aren't playing,
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Ty's Take The obits page today carries names that mean something in this valley—Knapp, Villemez, Hourigan—people who were here when the orchards still stretched wider and the water fights were mostly about farming. Meanwhile down at the other end of the paper, you've got
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Ty's Take The TV guide hits the desk on a Wednesday in July, which means somebody's already thinking about what folks will be watching when the heat settles in and the sun doesn't quit till after eight. That's the rhythm of a
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Ty's Take Most weeks in July, the valley empties out a little—folks heading to the mountains to escape the heat, or down to visit family across the line in Juárez. The obits page tells you who stayed, who made it through another season tending pecan trees or
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez was the kind of man who showed up—to the fields at dawn, to the church on Sunday, to help a neighbor move irrigation pipe when the Rio Grande ran low. He spent his life in the Mesilla Valley doing work that doesn'
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman spent most of her life in this valley, which means she saw what Las Cruces was and what it's become—the orchards giving way to subdivisions, the quiet town turning into something busier and louder. The obituaries in a paper
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a local maker decides to turn creativity into commerce, especially in a town where most of us still think of economy in terms of what grows in the ground or what the university brings in. These plushie artisans are
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Ty's Take Summer's here and the TV guide is running thick—which tells you something about how folks around the Valley are spending their evenings when the heat hits 105 by mid-afternoon. Can't blame anybody for that. You finish up at the pecan shed
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Ty's Take Three good men from this valley are gone this week—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, seventy. The obits don't always tell you much about a place, but Las Cruces knows what it's losing when names like these disappear
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Ty's Take Clarence Villemez spent seventy-eight years in this valley—long enough to watch the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande get crowded out by subdivisions, long enough to see what irrigation built and what thirst takes away. The obituary doesn't say much, the way they usually