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Ty's Take Spring's late this far north, but if El Vecino's telling folks it's time to get the leafy stuff in the ground, then the soil temperature's probably right and the frost window's closing fast enough to take
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Ty's Take When a man who wore the badge pleads guilty, the whole valley feels it different than when somebody else does. There's a particular weight to it—the betrayal of a trust that doesn't get written back into the ledger easy, especially up
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Ty's Take Bail hearings tend to get lost in the noise of bigger court dockets, but when a prosecutor argues for no bail at all, something in the case has crossed a line that even judges take seriously. The Chimayó man in question is sitting in a cell
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Ty's Take An indictment handed down this week in Rio Arriba County means somebody's heading to trial over an assault—the kind of local trouble that usually stays local until the law decides it won't. In a place this size, you know the names
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Ty's Take Court dockets don't usually tell you much beyond the mechanics of who did what and what the judge decided, but when you stack up a molester doing fourteen years, an ATV incident moving toward indictment, and a no-confidence letter landing on the sheriff'
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Ty's Take There's something about a man on horseback that stays with a place long after he's gone—the way he moved through these valleys, who he stopped to talk to at Bode's, which high meadows he knew by heart. When folks
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Ty's Take Every fall the question comes up the same way—usually over coffee at Bode's or leaning against a truck bed somewhere between Chama and Coyote—and it never gets settled because it was never meant to. Best chile and salsa in the valley isn&
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working—calving season doesn't wait for news cycles, and the acequia boards have their hands full sorting water rights before the runoff peaks. The quiet weeks are when you notice who&
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Ty's Take Two women bickering over bingo money, a school superintendent heading for the door, the county commission drawing a line against uranium mining—and somewhere in between, a tennis team winning districts and a film hauling home awards. This is what a week looks like in a
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Ty's Take Two elderly women scrapping over bingo money at the community center tells you something true about this valley—we're stretched thin, everybody's watching their dollars, and the stakes feel higher than they probably are because there's not much margin for
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Ty's Take Violence doesn't usually come looking for you in the Española area—it's the kind of thing you read about happening somewhere else, in bigger places where people don't know their neighbors. But twice in recent days, somebody's blood
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Ty's Take Slow week up north, which means you're seeing the real texture of things—a man charged in a domestic, another claiming the devil's got his friend's ear, copper wire disappearing off a business, the usual friction that happens when folks