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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearing is back again, which tells you something about how these things wear on a community. Meanwhile, the city and county are trying to get ahead of sprawl with that new MOU on edge development, transit's shifting its routes to
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into a town by what it argues about, and Silver City's having a real one right now. We're fighting over intersection redesigns and landfill fees and whether a compost operation makes sense for our recycling future, which
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Ty's Take There's a fire running 52 percent contained on 15,226 acres and traffic backing up near the tunnels, which means this week the plateau is reminding us again that we live in a place where things can turn serious fast. Meanwhile, the Forest Service
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who spent most of his life in this valley, passed this week at 89. We don't have much beyond the notice, which is how it goes some days, but anybody who's been around Hatch long enough knows that every
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Ty's Take Not every day the local radio station is running wedding etiquette, but that's what happens when two names carry enough weight around town to make people curious about the details. Truth is, most of us will never get that invitation, but there's
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Ty's Take Interior Secretary Haaland coming back through town, roasting chile firing up again in Arrey, and EBID sitting down to figure out next year's water numbers, all in the same week, tells you something about how we live here. The federal government's got
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Ty's Take A Los Alamos firefighter died supporting operations on the Frijoles Fire, and while we don't yet know the full circumstances, the loss hits different up here on the plateau. This town has watched the Cerro Grande and Las Conchas burns reshape how we think
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Ty's Take Two local people sitting in federal custody on fentanyl trafficking charges, which means somewhere between here and the border, the supply lines that are killing people across this country ran straight through Alamogordo. This isn't some abstract drug war statistic anymore, it's
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Ty's Take When a town finishes the year three and a half million dollars under budget, there's usually a story underneath about what didn't happen, and that matters more than the number itself. T or C came in lean, which in lean times can
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Ty's Take Two community institutions marking milestones this week, and both tell you something about what holds Silver City together. The Woman's Club bringing families in for a day of activities is the kind of glue work that doesn't make anybody's name
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is at 45 percent containment as of Sunday, and that's progress worth noting on the plateau, but the news came with a hard reminder that fighting fire in these mountains costs more than sweat and equipment. A member of the fire