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Ty's Take Jose Jaurequi spent better than fifty years in these hills, which around Grant County means he was woven into the fabric the way copper is woven into rock. The memorial reception today gives folks a chance to do what this community does best: gather and remember
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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
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Ty's Take The news that Kyle Busch died this week hit different down here, maybe because racing and working livestock are the two things that actually stop people mid-afternoon around Deming. You see the same discipline in both, the same understanding that one mistake costs you everything.
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Ty's Take The streetlights downtown have been out for weeks now, and nobody seems to know exactly when they'll come back on. Could be a contractor issue, could be the city budget, could be both. What strikes you when you drive past the closed storefronts after
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Ty's Take Two small stories today, but they point at something real about what holds a town together when money's tight and futures are uncertain. An art auction brought people in, which means somebody's making something beautiful around here instead of just complaining, and
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Ty's Take Grant County's losing its county manager in October, which means somebody's got to know where all the bodies are buried, figuratively speaking. That's institutional knowledge you can't fake, and it usually takes a new person six months just
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Ty's Take Project Y Robotics hosting New Mexico's first FIRST competition this year says something about what this town does best: take kids with half an idea and the kind of problem-solving DNA that comes from growing up around engineers and physicists, then point them
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Ty's Take The city's hammering out another bond issue for water and roads while the lake keeps dropping, which tells you everything you need to know about where we are right now. We're past the point of hoping for rain and into the point
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Ty's Take Folks getting caught up in a vacant land swindle while we're sitting under a flood advisory is about as on-brand as Silver City gets these days. Some outfit's out there convincing property owners they owe taxes or fees on land that
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Ty's Take Measles is back on the plateau, and that's the kind of record nobody up here wanted to see. This is a town built on solving hard problems, on precision and evidence and getting the calculations right, which makes it worth asking out loud why
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Ty's Take The Noble Spear has always been the kind of place where you walk in expecting one thing and leave with something you didn't know you needed. That's the whole point of a community theater, really, especially in a town that's
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Ty's Take That headline out of Las Cruces doesn't tell us much, but when you're talking about the Noble Spear down in the Mesilla Valley, you're talking about one of the places that knows how to tell a New Mexico story right.