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Ty's Take The Comprehensive Plan revision hearing Wednesday night in White Rock is worth your time if you've got questions about where this county goes next, because right now the pressure valve is wide open. The Lab keeps growing, Santa Fe keeps looking north toward cheaper
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Ty's Take Tim Fife spent forty-some years working at the Lab, one of those quiet engineers you'd pass in the hallway without knowing he'd helped build something that changed the world. Those initials after his name—PE, PMP, SCPM—they're the
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Ty's Take Tim Fife's obit reads like a résumé, all those letters after his name, but any engineer who spent decades on the hill knows what that really means: a man who showed up and got things done, probably more quietly than anyone gave him credit
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Ty's Take The school district's hosting a night for parents and caregivers up at the high school library, which on its face sounds like standard fall programming until you remember what this town has been through the last few years. Folks here have watched their kids
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Ty's Take Hezzie Gibson made it to 92, which on the Pajarito Plateau means you saw this town build itself from scratch, watched the Lab grow into something that changed the whole trajectory of northern New Mexico, and knew what mattered when the noise died down. The obits
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Ty's Take You'll notice there's no crisis in today's news, no water main breaks or council meetings gone sideways, just a quiet week where the town's doing what a town does when things are running level. The symphony's
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Ty's Take The news from the Lab keeps coming, as it always does. A $2.8 million settlement over religious and disability discrimination at Triad National Security lands hard in a place where a lot of us work directly or indirectly for that sprawling operation on the hill,
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire recovery meeting keeps getting postponed, which tells you something about what this plateau throws at us, and it's not always flames. Flash flood warnings, the kind of hazard you don't expect when you're still thinking about wildfire
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Ty's Take You don't get many towns where the same week brings stories about Arctic acoustics, wheelchair ramps, and the county's science festival. But that's Los Alamos, where a handful of PhDs working on planetary-scale problems live next door to folks
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Ty's Take There's something worth noting in how a town this size marks itself. We've got food service workers getting state recognition, three neighbors named Living Treasures, nine kids making National Merit semifinalists, and a man named George Fischer Morse who lived nearly eighty
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Ty's Take There's something about fall on the plateau that makes you notice the small stuff, the way the light hits different when the clouds sink down around the mountains and the air gets that particular bite to it. This time of year, with fire season
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Ty's Take The Lab's got a new food contractor, and that's worth noticing up here where LANL's decisions ripple through everything else. Wolf & Mermaid Enchanted Cafe, a local outfit, beat out the bigger vendors for the cafeteria and beverage services, which