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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to ninety-two, which in this valley means he saw the whole arc of it, watched Interstate 10 cut through farmland that used to belong to somebody's family, watched the university grow and the air base stay put and the
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Ty's Take When your mother's in the hospital and the bills start piling up faster than the monsoon runoff down the Rio Grande, you either fold or you figure something out. That's what caught my eye about today's story, a local woman
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Ty's Take Nancy Carol Coates made it to 84, which around here means she saw the valley change from something you could cross on horseback to what it is now. The Bulletin's notice doesn't say much, the way these things go, but any of
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams was the kind of man you see at the feed store or the courthouse, the ones who show up and do the work without much fanfare. He's gone now, and that leaves a hole in Doña Ana County that won'
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both lived long enough to see this valley transform from something quieter into what it is now, and that kind of witness matters more than we usually admit in a newspaper. The piece on the jeweler who loved golf
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92 in a town that's changed more in his lifetime than most places change in three centuries, and folks around here will remember him for showing up, year after year, in a community that needed people who stayed put.
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked construction around the Mesilla Valley for decades, passed this week at 89. The obituary doesn't say much more than that, which is how these things usually go in a weekly paper, but any contractor or laborer who spent time
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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