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Ty's Take The lightning fires popping up across the Santa Fe National Forest this week hit a nerve up here on the plateau, the way they always do. Folks around Los Alamos remember 2000 and 2011 like they were yesterday, and when you see smoke in the Pecos
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman and Clarence Villemez are gone this week, along with Shannyn Caldwell, and that's the kind of loss that hits different in a town like Las Cruces where you run into people at the Mesilla Valley Mall or the Farmers Market
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman worked these fields like most of us do, the kind of steady presence you don't think much about until the name shows up in the paper and you realize how many seasons she saw come and go. When you live
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Ty's Take August's hitting different when you've got kids heading back to the classroom. Free vaccines, school zone reminders, the Wildcats roster coming together, and the fair lineup announced, all in the same week, tells you something about how this town gets itself ready
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Ty's Take When the bookkeeping charges got dropped in Nogal, somebody up there probably breathed easier, but around here we know how these small-town money tangles tend to unwind. What matters more today is what's happening down in Santa Fe, where our state's
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Ty's Take The city council finally locked down next year's budget this week, which means at least somebody around here knows what money they're actually working with come July. But that certainty ends about there. The water story that keeps us all awake at
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Ty's Take Spring's here and the wild things are moving back into town like they never really left. A bear in Little Walnut, fawns scattered through the neighborhoods, and now word that folks need to stop picking up the baby deer because mama's usually
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Ty's Take School's coming back, the fire season is heating up again, and if you've driven the hill during the morning rush you already know August is going to test everybody's patience. This town runs on the Lab's clock, and
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Ty's Take August's heat keeps most of us indoors after dark, which means television's probably getting more eyeballs around Las Cruces than it does most months. With school starting up again in a couple weeks and football season ramping toward opening kickoff for the
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Ty's Take Not much stirring in the valley today, which means it's a good time to notice the people who've built something outside the obvious rhythms of planting and harvest. Down in Las Cruces they're running a piece about a fellow who&
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of courage that shows up in a small town when a family decides to turn grief into a warning. Sadaya's Color Splash started because someone here lost someone to SUDEP, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, and instead of
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Ty's Take The commissioners made the right call on that data center moratorium, even if the reasoning got buried in the usual back-and-forth. Thing is, we've got Spaceport America finally gaining traction after years of slow builds and broken promises, and slapping a massive