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Ty's Take The Roswell Record going dark is the kind of thing that sticks with you in this business—not because it's shocking anymore, but because you know exactly which newsroom emptied out and which stories won't get told next week. Small papers in
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Ty's Take Free sports physicals for all Tiger student athletes—that's the kind of thing that sounds simple until you're the parent trying to scrape together a couple hundred dollars before your kid can suit up. Sierra County's not exactly flush with
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Ty's Take Planning documents approved, fire crews still working the Sacaton, schools preparing for next year—the machinery of a small county keeps turning whether anybody's paying attention or not. What matters is that Silver City's council sat down and mapped out where this
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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 Heat's coming hard into the basin, and the usual warnings about hydration and shade don't quite cut it out here—we're talking about the kind of temperatures that can turn a short walk into something serious, especially for the older
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Ty's Take Bonnie Buckley Maldonado was the kind of woman who showed up—to city council, to community events, to the fights that mattered in a small town that's always trying to figure out what it wants to be. Her passing leaves a real hole in
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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 There's something about this town that draws people who like to test themselves—maybe it's the altitude, maybe it's the history of pushing limits that seeps into the soil around here. A local triathlete grinding through multiple challenges, both the
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Ty's Take The wastewater plant keeps us honest—can't build much of a future on broken pipes and fingernail-thin margins, which is why the commission's push on tiny homes reads less like vision and more like necessity. You've got Spaceport America
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Ty's Take The Sacaton Fire's got people watching the Gila from both sides of the fence today—some worried about the wilderness they love disappearing into smoke, others hoping the burn clears out fuel before the next dry season gets worse. Weather's not helping
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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 Between the governor's drought declaration, fire season bearing down, and screwworm warnings already circulating, this is the time of year when ranchers and farmers around Luna County earn their coffee before sunrise. The heat's coming hard and early, water's tighter