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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
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who died this week at 89, was the kind of man you'd see at the Mesilla Valley Fair or working his land, the quiet sort who didn't need much fanfare but left a mark on how things got done
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Ty's Take You lose people in this town and you feel the weight of it different than you do in the cities up north. Carol Ann Knapp Foreman knew these valleys. Clarence Villemez worked them. Shannyn Caldwell and Timothy Hourigan were part of the fabric here, the kind
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of contentment you see in people who've found what they're good at and decided to chase it without apology. That's what catches you in a story like this one, where someone's divided
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Ty's Take The Noble Spear has always been the kind of place where you walk in expecting one thing and leave with something you didn't know you needed. That's the whole point of a community theater, really, especially in a town that's
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman was the kind of woman who showed up, and in a town like Las Cruces, where the Mesilla Valley keeps turning over and newer folks keep arriving, that matters more than you'd think. The death notices today remind us that