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Ty's Take Every September, this town gets a particular kind of nervous. The Frijoles Fire smoke rolling across the plateau right now isn't the worst we've seen, but it's enough to tighten the jaw of anybody who was here for Cerro Grande
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Ty's Take This week the town's attention splits between two things that say something true about Los Alamos. We're surveying neighbors about athletic courts at the community park, which matters because growth keeps pressing in from the valley and folks here want their kids
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Ty's Take Labor Day's barely in the rearview and already the calendar's filling up with the things that hold a small town together, the way it actually works when you're living on the plateau. A Jewish new year, a church kicking back
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Ty's Take The county's giving itself another year and change to gather public input on the comprehensive plan, which is either a sign of genuine deliberation or a sign that nobody's quite sure what growth on the hill is going to look like five
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sits at 77 percent containment with monsoon moisture moving in, which on the Pajarito Plateau means we're holding our breath and watching the sky like we always do come September. People here have long memories of Cerro Grande and Las Conchas,
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Ty's Take Carmen Geoffrion turned a hundred years old this week, and somebody decided the right way to mark that was to paint her face on a rock in White Rock for the whole county to see. There's something deeply, unapologetically small-town about that move,
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing about a town that schedules its community events months out and gets people to actually show up. Saturday's quilt market down at the Piecemakers guild is the kind of thing that sounds small until you remember half this
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Ty's Take The Mitchell Fire is out, and that's worth saying plainly: thanks to crews from California and Arizona who came up here to help, thanks to our local firefighters who know this plateau like nobody else, and thanks to the monsoon that finally showed up
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Ty's Take Utility bills climbing again, a regional landfill agreement finally moving forward, and local politicians trading serious accusations on everything from ethics to criminal conduct. It's the kind of week where you can see the real pressures building on this plateau, the ones that don&
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Ty's Take The Police Department's town hall on automated license plate readers drew a packed house, which tells you something about how this town thinks about security versus privacy. Around here, you've got plenty of both concerns, all of them legitimate. You've
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Ty's Take The Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire may be history now, but those claims offices staying closed through Labor Day are a reminder this place is still in recovery mode. That 2022 burn scar stretched across 341,000 acres, and the bureaucracy of putting people
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Ty's Take September's hitting us with the usual mix of infrastructure fixes and community upkeep, which is exactly how a town like this tends to operate when the summer fire season finally backs off. The state's paving NM 96, the utilities board is working