Daily Digest
Ty's Take Fire season is here, and it's running the show again. Multiple lightning strikes across the Pajarito plateau this week, crews scrambling up the mountain, the Frijoles fire already pushing toward thirteen thousand acres up in the national forest. For anyone who was here in
Daily Digest
Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams lived ninety-four years in a valley that changed more in his lifetime than most places see in a century. He was here when the Mesilla Valley was still mostly farmland, when you could count the stoplights on one hand, and he stayed
Daily Digest
Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams passed this week, and that's the kind of notice that stops you in a small town. You don't need the full obituary to know what it means around here—another person who remembers when things were different, who maybe
Daily Digest
Ty's Take Radio stations running wedding gossip and chamber directors giving pep talks to merchants, which tells you what kind of week it is around Deming. When the news gets thin, you're usually looking at either a genuine lull or the kind of moment where folks
Daily Digest
Ty's Take Volleyball season's here, and you've got two different angles playing out in the same basin. Tularosa's bringing in new blood to rebuild what used to work, which is the kind of patience a program needs when things have drifted. Over
Daily Digest
Ty's Take City hall's been busy this week hammering out the bones of what comes next, and you can feel it in the air around town. When T or C and the county sit down to write an MOU about development at the city's
Daily Digest
Ty's Take José Coll's been in the WNMU president's chair long enough now to know what he's walking into, and if the Beat piece tells us anything, it's that he's thinking past the next budget cycle. That matters
Daily Digest
Ty's Take There's a Frijoles Fire burning 11,335 acres in the Jemez with nine percent containment, which in this town means everybody's watching the weather and checking evacuation zones whether they'll admit it or not. We've got long memories
Daily Digest
Ty's Take You can tell something's shifting out at the high school when a volleyball team starts talking about culture the way you'd talk about a crop that needs tending. The girls at AHS aren't just chasing wins this season, they'
Daily Digest
Ty's Take City hall spending three and a half million under budget in a year when water levels at Elephant Butte stayed low and county revenues came in tight tells you something about how this town's learning to operate. Nobody here expects boom times anymore, and
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The Silver City council got through their budget scrape this week without the kind of public bloodletting that usually follows money votes around here, which either means folks are tired of fighting or the arguments happened behind closed doors where they always do. Either way, the
Daily Digest
Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire is up to better than nine thousand acres now, 656 people working it, and we're sitting at twelve percent containment on a Monday morning. That number will move, one way or another, depending on what the weather does the rest of