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Ty's Take End-of-year banquets tend to blur together after you've covered enough of them, but there's something worth marking when a place like the Elephant Butte Golf and Country Club still has the juice to bring people together—especially in a county
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Ty's Take Most days around here you can tell what's eating at people by what makes it into the paper. Today we've got a syndicated column about fraud rings, a shelter dog looking for a home, and the third installment of Lucy Raley'
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation around here since before we renamed this town fifty years ago, and come late May the monsoon talk usually means dust storms and flash flood watches down the arroyos. But when the Citizen's leading with overconsumption in the
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Ty's Take The hospital's trying to fight back against bad information spreading around town, which is a fight worth having but also exhausting to watch—people believe what they want to believe, and a press release only goes so far. Meanwhile, we've got kids
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Ty's Take Clare Villemez worked this valley for eighty-some years, and obituaries in a town like this aren't just names in a box—they're the thread count of what holds us together. When you lose someone who planted roots here deep enough to
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Ty's Take The news that Kyle Busch is gone hits different when you're sitting in a town where a lot of folks grew up watching him tear up the track—there's a whole generation of kids around Luna County who had posters on their
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Ty's Take Nobody expects much to happen at a broadcasters' meeting, which probably explains why Haaland and Hull shook hands for thirty seconds and called it a day. This is what passes for a campaign moment in a military town where most folks are too busy with
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Ty's Take The commission's interim budget reads like a wish list from folks who've forgotten what happens when the Rio Grande runs low and Elephant Butte can't cover the irrigation season. You can talk goals and improvements all you want, but this
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Ty's Take A negligence finding against Gila Regional and one of its doctors over a patient death is the kind of story that shakes a town's faith in the place where most of us end up sooner or later—and for some, don't leave
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Ty's Take Sometimes a town shows you who it is by the things people choose to build in hard times. A new cidery up in High Rolls, a musician's legacy getting its due, a life remembered in these pages—these aren't the kind of
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Ty's Take Screwworms don't usually make the news around here until they've already made their way through a herd, which is why that confirmed case over in the county deserves the attention it's getting today. These parasites don't care much
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Ty's Take Two new faces on the County Commission, a downtown storefront filling after months vacant, five brush fires that didn't spread—on the surface, a decent week in Grant County. But underneath it's the usual tug-of-war that never really quits around