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Ty's Take Most weeks in July, the valley empties out a little—folks heading to the mountains to escape the heat, or down to visit family across the line in Juárez. The obits page tells you who stayed, who made it through another season tending pecan trees or
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Ty's Take Look, somebody in this town got invited to Travis and Taylor's wedding, and that's the kind of thing that matters around here—not because of who they are, but because weddings still mean something in Deming. You show up, you bring a
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Ty's Take The Rainbow Futurity trials out at the track draw the kind of crowd that reminds you there's still real money and real passion in horse country around here, even with all the talk about missile ranges and space hotels eating up the basin. Two
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Ty's Take Ryan Williams didn't mince words this week—we're on our own when it comes to FEMA money, which means Sierra County's emergency services are running on fumes and local grit. That's the real story underneath the Texas v.
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a week where we're wrestling with water rates and a deputy's plea deal while honoring the men who survived the Bataan Death March—the kind of day-to-day stuff that actually matters in a place
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez was the kind of man who showed up—to the fields at dawn, to the church on Sunday, to help a neighbor move irrigation pipe when the Rio Grande ran low. He spent his life in the Mesilla Valley doing work that doesn'
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Ty's Take When a town the size of Deming loses someone like Kyle Busch—a guy who made it to the absolute top of his sport and kept winning—it hits different than the usual celebrity news that scrolls past. But what sticks with me is that our
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Ty's Take A man in a position to know better got behind the wheel and left someone dead in the road, and now Otero County has to reckon with that particular kind of public shame—the kind that lands in the state news feeds and makes people outside
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Ty's Take Water treatment and block parties, hospital plans and ambulance crews—it reads like a slow Tuesday until you remember that every one of these stories is somebody in this county trying to keep the lights on and the doors open. The wastewater plant doesn't
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Ty's Take The school board's time spent on student handbooks might sound like the kind of administrative tedium that puts people to sleep, but anybody who's sat through one of those meetings knows better—handbooks are where the rubber meets the road on what
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Ty's Take The tennis courts down at the park are seeing some real life these days, and that matters more than you'd think in a town like this—when your kids are swinging rackets instead of staring at screens, when volunteers are building something that holds
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Ty's Take Truth or Consequences has never been shy about its name, and this weekend proved we're not shy about much else either. Pride Weekend brought color to Main Street—literal rainbows, but also the kind of visible acceptance that wasn't always a given