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Ty's Take Bode's has a coffee pot going most mornings, and if you sit long enough you'll hear what's really on people's minds around here. Last week it was the shelter over in Española needing homes for dogs and cats
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Ty's Take A murder witness walking out on probation is the kind of outcome that settles different ways depending on which side of the courthouse steps you're standing on. The Rio Grande SUN reports it happened, which means it happened somewhere in this territory we cover,
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Ty's Take Most folks up here don't move to the Chama Valley looking for quiet, exactly, but there's a difference between the natural sounds of this country and somebody else's idea of entertainment bleeding through your walls at midnight. When someone'
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Ty's Take When charges get dropped in a fatal wreck, people want to know why, and they want to know fast. The details matter most up here where everybody drives these canyon roads and everybody knows somebody who didn't make it home. A year is a
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Ty's Take The obituaries page tells you something about who we are up here. Karen Layla Martinez, Andreita Romero, Albert Freddie Vigil Jr.—names that run deep in this country, families that have held land and memory through centuries of change. When you lose people like that, you
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Ty's Take There's a reason chile talk heats up around here come late summer, and it's not just the crop itself. These northern cultivars we've grown for generations aren't decoration or nostalgia, they're what held families through winters
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Ty's Take Word came down that somebody's been walking around town with a machete that isn't exactly official county business, which is the kind of thing that gets people talking at Bode's and reminds you that even up here, where most folks
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Ty's Take Word came down this week that the former officer dropped his guilty plea, which means the whole thing circles back to square one and the valley gets to watch it all play out again. These cases have a way of wearing on a small community, especially
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Ty's Take A man from Medanales convicted on felony charges, another Santa Fe County case bringing 21 months in federal prison, a rifle pulled over an alcohol dispute at a store counter. The court docket keeps filling up the way it does in any county this size, but
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Ty's Take Fire season comes early up here, and the Forest Service closure order on Frijoles tells you the dry spell we've been running isn't finished with us yet. Those of us who've lived through years in this country know what temporary
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Ty's Take Down in Carlsbad they're pulling catfish out of the water, which is fine for them, but up here the real spring story is what's moving through the Chama and what the snow melt is doing to our irrigation rights as the season
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Ty's Take Most days around here the news comes down to water rights and weather, but today we're getting reminded that sometimes the smallest decisions carry the biggest consequences. A man falls off a roof, drinking was involved, and suddenly a family's got hospital