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Ty's Take School's coming back, the fire season is heating up again, and if you've driven the hill during the morning rush you already know August is going to test everybody's patience. This town runs on the Lab's clock, and
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire east of Pojoaque lit up overnight, and if you've been here since 2000 or 2011, you already felt that old familiar tightness in your chest. This time the flames came somewhere else, but fire season doesn't care about county
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Ty's Take Lightning hit the Santa Fe National Forest this week, and that's the kind of thing that gets everybody's attention up here whether they admit it or not. We've got long memories of Cerro Grande and Las Conchas, the kind of
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Ty's Take Doug Weiss got named Athletic Director of the Year for the Northeast Region, which says something about what matters up here on the hill. It's easy to overlook how much of a town's backbone runs through its middle school gym and playing
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Ty's Take The deer on the golf course probably have more sense than most of us. They show up when they want, eat what they need, and move on before anyone gets territorial about it. Margaret Andersen Hanson lived ninety-seven years on this plateau, and Joan Beth
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Ty's Take Smoke drifting down from the Star Fire burning north of here in Santa Clara Canyon is a reminder that fire season on the plateau never really lets up, even when the news cycle turns to back-to-school traffic and summer concerts at Ashley Pond. For
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Ty's Take The Oso Canyon Fire is contained, the bears are walking through town again as August settles in, and up on the hill they're talking about powering America's AI future while down here we're still learning what it means to live
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Ty's Take The Oso Canyon Fire is still smoldering in the Santa Fe National Forest while crews work the hotspots, and that's the kind of thing that makes every July and August feel a little shorter up here on the plateau. Two decades past Cerro Grande
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Ty's Take Fire season hit us hard enough in 2000 and 2011 that this town doesn't take the Oso Canyon fire west of Española lightly, even if it's still miles away and the county just lifted restrictions. The crews working that rough terrain above
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Ty's Take The Oso Canyon Fire is moving across the Santa Fe National Forest just south of here, and if there's one thing this plateau knows by heart, it's how fast that story can change. Cerro Grande taught us that in 2000, and Las
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Ty's Take Fire in Oso Canyon west of Española has the crews rolling again, and anyone who was here for Cerro Grande or watched the Las Conchas smoke roll across the plateau knows that feeling in your stomach when the alert goes out. The monsoon season is supposed