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Ty's Take A quarter million dollars gone because two parties couldn't find middle ground—that's what the museum standoff cost this town, and it's the kind of wound Silver City can't afford to keep picking at. We've got
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Ty's Take Three good men from this valley in the paper today—Shannyn Caldwell, Timothy Joseph Hourigan, and George Douglas Jackson, who made it to 70. In a town that's growing as fast as Las Cruces is, where the orchards keep giving way to subdivisions and
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Ty's Take Father's Day's coming up fast, and if you're still staring at a blank slate on what to get the old man, you're not alone—most of us wait until the last possible second anyway. The thing about buying
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Ty's Take Election season's heating up early in Otero County, which means the usual parade of promises is already rolling through town—and in a military community like ours, those promises tend to land different than they do in Santa Fe or Albuquerque. A gubernatorial ticket
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Ty's Take Ryan Williams didn't sugarcoat it this week when he said Sierra County is on its own when it comes to FEMA money—and that's the kind of straight talk a county administrator has to give when the federal cupboard's bare.
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's been pushing crews hard for over a week now, but yesterday's numbers suggest the weather's finally breaking their way—containment crept up another few points, and they've got aircraft back in rotation. In a county
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Ty's Take The Barela case is done now, and that's probably the right outcome, but it leaves a question that won't quit: how did we get to a place where a sitting official ends up fighting the state all the way to the Supreme
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Ty's Take Monsoon season's knocking early this year, which ordinarily would be good news—except we're already talking water overconsumption before the dry months even hit. That's the tight spot Sierra County finds itself in again: praying for rain to fill Elephant
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Ty's Take Fireworks bans in Bayard, animal ordinances in Hurley, and now the town council learning that turkey vultures have taken a liking to Silver City—seems like Grant County is spending a lot of energy on the small stuff while our kids are heading to nationals in
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez spent seventy-some years in this valley, which means he watched the Mesilla grow from something you could cross in an afternoon to what it is now—still recognizable if you know where to look, but fundamentally changed by time and people moving in.
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Ty's Take Kyle Busch dying at 41 hits different when you're in a place like Deming where everybody knows somebody who works with their hands for a living. The man was a competitor—twice a Cup champion, relentless, the kind of driver who made enemies because
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Ty's Take The arrests log, the training drill across county lines, and Doug Turner's column about staying committed—they're all part of the same story in a town like this. We've got people who show up, who put on uniforms and train