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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both knew this valley long enough to watch it grow from something you could hold in your hand to something that keeps slipping through your fingers. The Bulletin's obits this week read like a roster of people
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez both passed this week, which means two more names coming down off the roster of people who knew this valley before the interstates got so busy, before the suburbs started creeping north from Las Cruces. That's how
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Ty's Take Summer's wrapping up fast, which means parents are running the back-to-school gauntlet again, and the county's making it easier by offering free vaccines at clinics around town. The State Fair's bringing in live music, the Wildcats are rolling
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Ty's Take When French artists show up to paint the basin and end up sketching unexplained lights in the sky, it says something about who we are and what sticks in people's minds about this place. We're caught between the practical and the mysterious,
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Ty's Take The copper mine talk never really stops around here, and another hearing on Copper Flat means another round of the same calculus we've been doing for years: what's the upside against what we might lose. Meanwhile, the city council just passed a
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town handles its pieces, and Jose Barrios's legacy moving into a new home at Aldo Leopold School tells you most of what you need to know. Barrios spent decades pulling this community toward its better
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is still grinding through the Jemez at over 15,000 acres, and by now most of us on the hill have our go-bags ready and our evacuation routes memorized, which is what you do after Cerro Grande and Las Conchas taught this
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which around here means he saw Las Cruces go from a crossroads town to a city that keeps spreading across land his generation knew by name. The Bulletin's notice doesn't say much, the way those pieces
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Ty's Take Budget season in Sierra County tends to sort itself out the way it always does, which is to say the real work happens in closed rooms before anybody votes yes. The hospital's FY2027 budget passing means the lights stay on and the emergency room
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sat at better than a third contained by Friday evening, nearly a thousand personnel working the Jemez ridges in what amounts to a familiar nightmare for anyone who lived through Cerro Grande or Las Conchas. Those fires rewired how this town thinks about
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farming country means you saw the whole arc of it, the good seasons and the dry ones, the way a valley changes when the water holds and the way it tightens when it doesn't. The Mesilla
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Ty's Take The Tigers took care of business Friday night, which is what you want to see before the real schedule starts grinding in October. Forty-one to thirty-three against Santa Fe says the offense showed up and the defense found its footing, and that matters more