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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire got some rain yesterday, which around these parts counts as news worth noting—not because a few afternoon thunderstorms solve anything, but because in this corner of New Mexico, we've learned to mark every drop. Meanwhile, the Tour of the Gila
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Ty's Take Property damage calls, police checkpoints ramping up, and a charter school wrestling with its identity—that's the kind of week that reminds you Deming's at a crossroads between growth and growing pains. The state's got May checkpoints rolling through town,
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Ty's Take Spring's come to the high country, which out here means two things happening at once: the racing season hits full stride and the fire season starts doing the same. We've got cyclists tearing through downtown this afternoon for Stage 4 of the
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Ty's Take Chip seal season is here again, which means the next few weeks are going to feel like your truck's suspension is getting a personal workout every time you head out to the ranch or over to Las Cruces. Luna County's got crews
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Ty's Take There's a real bright spot in today's paper, and it's worth holding onto: Holloman's Project SEARCH, putting local kids in front of actual jobs and real mentors instead of sending them out blind into the world. That matters
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire creeping toward 4,000 acres puts everything else in sharp relief—the museum director's troubles, the commission race, even the Tour of the Gila drawing cyclists from across the world. When smoke's in the air and containment lines are
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Ty's Take There's something quietly telling about what shows up in the local news on a Tuesday—free tire disposal, a poster contest two years out, bells ringing to mark whatever occasion. It means city hall is thinking small and steady, which in a place like
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Ty's Take The Alamogordo Daily News going weekly is the kind of thing that sneaks up on a town—one day you're picking up tomorrow's paper at the coffee shop, the next day you're waiting until Thursday. It happens everywhere now, papers
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire crossing 4,000 acres and Stage 1 restrictions already in place around Bayard and Santa Clara—that's the real weather forecast for Grant County right now, and it's not the kind that changes with the season. We're
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Ty's Take Five neighbors gone this week—Caldwell, Hourigan, Jackson, Lawrence, Creek—names that meant something to somebody here, and that's what the death notices are for, to say their time mattered in a place where people still read them with their coffee. The housing market&
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Ty's Take Saturday's Cancer Walk isn't just another community event—it's the 21st time folks around here have shown up to remember somebody they lost and stand with the ones still fighting. That kind of staying power matters more than most people
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Ty's Take Dexter's Mike Smith is headed to Louisville next month and could make history as the oldest rider ever to win the Kentucky Derby, which says something about this country—that grit and timing and knowing your craft don't have an expiration date.