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Ty's Take The Fire Department's push to strengthen wildfire response through statewide partnerships is the kind of talk that gets real attention up here, and for good reason—Cerro Grande and Las Conchas left scars that don't fade, and every household on the plateau
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town shows up for its own. St. Baldrick's heads to the brewery, the Kiwanis folks keep grinding on schools and community, the library's doing storytime down in White Rock—these aren't
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Ty's Take The county's new alerts page going live this week is the kind of quiet infrastructure that doesn't make anyone's blood pump until it does—and up here on the plateau, that usually means fire season or something worse. You live
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Ty's Take Walter Bettinger, who lived through most of the atomic age in Los Alamos, passed last week at ninety-three—a reminder that this town's founding generation, the ones who came to the Hill when it was still secret and strange, are leaving us. The
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Ty's Take Fire assessment complete, monsoon season here, and the county's running a DIY workshop on the eighteenth—which tells you something about where Los Alamos' head is at right now. Between the McCauley Springs burn scar still fresh in people's minds and
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Ty's Take The county's offering free dirt to anybody who wants to haul it off, which sounds like a punchline until you remember we're talking about a place where housing pressure is pushing folks down the hill toward Española, where every square foot costs
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Ty's Take You don't need a PhD to notice that this town runs on infrastructure most of us never think about until something goes wrong—the gas lines under the hill, the water systems, the senior centers where people land when they can't live
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Ty's Take We lost two good neighbors this week—Evelyn Ward, who saw this town built from the ground up on the plateau, and Allen Sherwood, who lived most of his life here watching it change. That's what a slow July Fourth weekend means in a
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Ty's Take Wildlife's been wandering down from the mountains more than usual this summer, and whether it's bighorn sheep checking out Pajarito Acres or deer browsing the fruit stand at Mari Mac, the message seems clear enough—the plateau's getting crowded. Between
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Ty's Take The McCauley Springs Fire sitting at 77 percent contained as the long Fourth of July weekend wrapped up—that's the number that matters most on the plateau right now, and it's the one that'll stick with folks here longer than
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Ty's Take Robert Trujillo was 47 when he died, and Casey Luster was 32, and that's the kind of year we're having up here on the plateau—the kind where you go to the store and run into someone's kid grown up,
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Ty's Take That dead juniper in Pajarito Acres isn't just a tree—it's a warning written in bark and brittle wood that the plateau is thirsty in a way we haven't seen in a while. We've lived through Cerro Grande