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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.
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Ty's Take Governor showing up for WNMU's commencement in 2026 is the kind of thing that looks good in the ceremony program, but what really matters is whether she's paying attention to what her administration's doing down here—like that pipeline proposal
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Ty's Take The state just told WIPP it's got to take on more of Los Alamos's nuclear legacy, which means Otero County's sitting on top of a bigger hole full of older ghosts than most folks want to think about. Meanwhile, someone&
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire's still chewing through country that matters—the kind of backcountry that keeps people here in the first place, whether they came for copper or came for solitude. By now most of Silver City knows someone who's got skin in
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Ty's Take Spring's always when you see what's really holding this valley together—and this year's housing numbers suggest we might actually be finding our footing after years of getting priced out and built over. New construction's up, inventory'
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Ty's Take The oil theft ring busted out in Lea County reminds you how fast opportunity turns into federal time in this part of the state—one day you're thinking nobody's watching the lease roads, the next day you're facing charges in
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Ty's Take The library's hosting a nature presentation Thursday night, the kind of thing that probably won't draw much of a crowd until word gets around—and it should, because this is exactly the conversation Silver City needs to be having. We've
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Ty's Take When a family murder case breaks open like this—with one suspect flipping to testify against another—it usually means the DA's got enough to move forward, and someone in that family decided the math had changed. Cassandra Douglas taking a plea deal to
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions are back at Santa Clara, wind advisories are stacked like cordwood, and we're heading into what looks like another dry spring—the kind that makes you remember why those old mining towns burned down so easy, and why folks around here stopped