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Ty's Take Fiesta season is already spinning up down the valley, which means the whole corridor—from here in Chama country all the way south through Abiquiú and into Española—is about to remember who it is and where it comes from. These aren't tourist pageants
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Ty's Take The men and women who run schools and water associations and county services up this way don't make the news much until something shifts—a principal moves on, a budget request lands on a commissioner's desk, a rule gets written that ripples
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Ty's Take When a sexual abuse case gets pleaded down, the details matter less than what it says about how justice moves—or doesn't—in a county where everybody knows everybody and the courthouse is smaller than most folks' living rooms. Up here in Rio
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Ty's Take Violence over nothing—a cigarette, a workplace argument that turns into hands around somebody's throat—tells you something about the pressure cooker this country has become. You can blame the heat, blame close quarters in small towns, blame whatever you want, but when two
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Ty's Take Hard to know what to lead on when you've got the Garlic Festival coming back—that's pure Abiquiú valley joy, the kind of weekend that reminds you why people drive up from Santa Fe and why the locals tolerate it—sitting right
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Ty's Take Fire took two people out of La Mesilla last week, the kind of thing that hits different up here where your nearest help is twenty minutes away by truck and your neighbor might be the only ladder you've got. Meanwhile, down valley someone'
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Ty's Take There's something worth paying attention to when a mobile clinic schedules a stop up here in July—it means somebody finally noticed that getting to a doctor's office in Española or Santa Fe isn't so simple when you're
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Ty's Take Fire season's already here and we haven't hit the worst heat yet—the burn ban going into effect this week is the kind of thing folks up here know to take seriously, whether you're running cattle on a land grant
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Ty's Take Two dismissals in the burglary cases against a man who'd been cycling through the valley the last couple years—the kind of news that lands different depending on which side of the courthouse steps you're standing on. But what sticks is the
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Ty's Take The BLM's oil and gas lease sale landed this week like a stone dropped in still water, the kind of announcement that gets people talking different ways depending on which side of the Chama they live on—and which generation owns the land they&
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Ty's Take Fire's still walking through Mesa de la Gallina country, and by now most of you know what that means—smoke in the valley, ash on the truck windshields, the smell of juniper and piñon carrying down from the high ground. These fires move slow
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Ty's Take Spencer Fordin's move over to Alamogordo is the kind of quiet shift you don't always notice until somebody's desk sits empty. He's been around these papers long enough to know what small-town journalism asks of you—the