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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire sitting at over 4,000 acres with zero containment and families evacuating down in Santa Fe County is exactly the kind of August morning that gets people on the plateau paying attention to their go-bags and their weather radio. We've
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams is gone, which means another piece of this valley's working history walks out the door. The Bulletin didn't run much, just the name and the basics, the way it goes sometimes when a man lived quiet and kept his
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams, who worked these fields and knew every irrigation ditch between here and Rincon, passed this week at 89. You don't see many obituaries that don't need explaining around a farming town, but his kind did. He was the water,
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Ty's Take Small towns run on the people willing to show up for both the big moments and the everyday grind, and this week we're seeing both sides of that coin. One's a feel-good distraction about a couple's wedding plans that&
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Ty's Take When a Supreme Court decision hinges on what a camera did or didn't capture, you're looking at the kind of case that haunts a small region for years. The video tossed from the Artesia newborn murder case won't disappear from
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Ty's Take The Tigers came to the Turtleback tournament ready to prove something, and a dominant showing in the round robin is exactly the kind of statement a team makes when it's built right. This time of year, when the competition gets mixed and the brackets
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Ty's Take The town council's got its knives out over the budget again, which is always fun to watch when you've got one side worried about keeping the lights on and another side worried about whether we're spending enough on the things
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Ty's Take By Sunday evening the Frijoles Fire had run to 3,000 acres with zero containment, smoke was rolling into the plateau, and folks around here knew exactly what that meant: the memory of Cerro Grande and Las Conchas doesn't fade on the Pajarito, it
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Ty's Take The city manager's office kept $3.6 million in the piggy bank this year, and you can read that number two ways. One is competent budgeting. The other, if you're watching Elephant Butte's water line creep lower and wondering what
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Ty's Take Grant Memorial Regional Medical Center inching forward on its fixes, Cobre Schools squeezing nickels on food and custodial work, and a new superintendent finding out fast that the job looks a lot different from the outside looking in. These are the stories of an institution-heavy
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Ty's Take The Frijoles Fire has doubled in size overnight, now sitting at a thousand acres with zero containment, and folks in Cundiyo and Cerro Piño are getting evacuation notices pushed to their phones. We've been here before, twice in the last generation, and this plateau
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Ty's Take Water law in the Rio Grande Basin is the third rail nobody wants to touch until they have to, and then it's already too late. The settlement with Sean Barnes is done, solid waste costs are climbing faster than anybody planned for, and somewhere