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Ty's Take Michelle Renee Sanders has been a fixture around here long enough that most folks know her name before they know her story, which is probably exactly how she'd want it. The Bulletin piece today catches up with someone who's spent decades doing
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Ty's Take Coralie Bailey Carrier lived ninety-three years in a place that changed more in her lifetime than most towns change in a century. She saw Las Cruces grow from a crossroads into a city, watched the valley's farms get carved into subdivisions, raised her
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Ty's Take Two longtime Las Cruceans are gone this week, and if you've lived here long enough you probably crossed paths with at least one of them. Janice Brown made it to 82, David Reyes to 62, which tells you something about the luck of the
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who passed this week at 89, spent most of his life around Las Cruces and knew this valley the way people know their own hands. The Bulletin's notice doesn't tell us much beyond the basics, but that's
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Ty's Take A bead shop opening in Las Cruces might not sound like front-page news, but anyone who's watched this town grow knows what it means. We've lost a lot of the old retail character along Main and Mesquite, watched small storefronts sit
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Ty's Take Michelle Renee Sanders ran this town's community center for years, and if you've lived here long enough you know what that means—she was the person who made sure a kid from the North Valley had somewhere safe to go after school,
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Ty's Take Obituaries in a town like this read like chapters from the place itself. Coralie Bailey Carrier and Bernie Carrillo, ninety-two, both belonged to the kind of Las Cruces that built this valley before the subdivisions came pushing north from the border and the university started
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which means she saw this valley change from something smaller into something bigger, and probably had opinions about most of it. The Bulletin didn't run much more than that this morning, just the notice that she'
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams was a fixture in this valley for ninety-three years, the kind of man who showed up and did the work without needing anybody to throw him a parade about it. He's gone now, and that matters to the people who
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Ty's Take There's something worth holding onto when a community figure dies, and Michelle Renee Sanders was one of those people who showed up, year after year, doing the work that doesn't make headlines until the day it stops. The Bulletin's notice
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Ty's Take Coralie Bailey Carrier didn't just live in Las Cruces, she shaped it. The Bulletin's notice today reminds us that this town loses people who actually built things here, who knew the Mesilla Valley when it was smaller and figured out how to