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Ty's Take Nobody wants to write about putting metal detectors in their kids' schools, but here we are. The Deming school board's moving ahead with OPENGATE screening at the secondary campuses—that's the reality of 2024, whether we like it or not—and
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Ty's Take Fire season came early to the Gila this year, and those red flag warnings stacked back-to-back mean the Forest Service isn't taking chances with the wind patterns rolling through. When you've got brush that dry and ridgelines that exposed, even a careless
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Ty's Take Three men who spent their lives in Doña Ana County—George Jackson at 70, Paul Lawrence at 84, Timothy Hourigan—are gone this week, and that's the kind of loss that settles different depending on who they were to you. The housing market'
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Ty's Take Saturday's free pet adoption event at DAGSHIP is the kind of thing that gets overlooked in a town where people are usually focused on making ends meet, but it matters more than it sounds. A lot of folks around Luna County can't
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Ty's Take Alamogordo High's softball team made the state tournament on heart and timing, which is about all you can ask of kids who've been grinding since February. They came up short this week—that's how tournaments work—and somebody's
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Ty's Take The pool opens Memorial Day weekend, which used to mean summer was really here—now it mostly means another round of belt-tightening for families already watching their utility bills climb. The hummingbird fire's contained but the fire watch stays active, which anybody who'
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Ty's Take Kid from Albuquerque, couple hours north, drove down to Deming to rob somebody and ended up pleading guilty to it—which means the system worked the way it's supposed to, mostly, but also means we're still the place people come to when
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Ty's Take Four people gone in a medical flight that didn't make it home—that's the kind of loss that settles hard in a town built around aviation and emergency response. We don't have details yet, and Lincoln County's still
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Ty's Take A child shot in her own downtown on a Tuesday morning—that's the kind of thing that stops a town cold, and Silver City's going to feel this one for a while. The details are still coming in, but when gunfire finds
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of silence that settles over a newsroom when the week's heaviest lift is the TV guide. We're talking about May in the valley—graduation season, pecan orchards in full green, the heat climbing toward the kind
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Ty's Take The news that CHRISTUS Health picked up top marks for safety isn't the kind of headline that makes people sit up straight, but in a town where Holloman's flight surgeons and White Sands' medical protocols set the bar pretty high, it
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Ty's Take The pump track going in at Santa Clara is the kind of project that shows Silver City thinking ahead—giving kids something to do that doesn't cost much and doesn't tear up the land, which in Grant County is no small thing.