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Ty's Take There's a rhythm to small-town life that shows up in the paper if you know where to look. This week you've got Serina Bartoo getting recognized by the hospital board, the volleyball team hosting the Alex Carter Memorial Tournament, and the
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Ty's Take The Copper Flat Mine hearing is back again, which tells you something about how these things wear on a community. Meanwhile, the city and county are trying to get ahead of sprawl with that new MOU on edge development, transit's shifting its routes to
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Ty's Take Interior Secretary Haaland coming back through town, roasting chile firing up again in Arrey, and EBID sitting down to figure out next year's water numbers, all in the same week, tells you something about how we live here. The federal government's got
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Ty's Take When a town finishes the year three and a half million dollars under budget, there's usually a story underneath about what didn't happen, and that matters more than the number itself. T or C came in lean, which in lean times can
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Ty's Take The copper mine talk never really stops around here, and another hearing on Copper Flat means another round of the same calculus we've been doing for years: what's the upside against what we might lose. Meanwhile, the city council just passed a
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Ty's Take Budget season in Sierra County tends to sort itself out the way it always does, which is to say the real work happens in closed rooms before anybody votes yes. The hospital's FY2027 budget passing means the lights stay on and the emergency room
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Ty's Take The copper mine hearing, the spaceport whistleblower's mixed court results, and a police building contract going down to El Paso instead of staying closer to home—three stories that say something true about where we are right now. We're caught between the
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Ty's Take Foch Street is open again, which means downtown can breathe a little easier and maybe folks will remember why they parked there in the first place. Road work in a town this size hits different, ties up the whole rhythm of things, and we've
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Ty's Take High school sports in a town this size matter more than the box score might suggest. When the Tigers take down the Wildcats in a double-header, you're not just watching kids play ball, you're watching the thing that keeps a small
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Ty's Take City hall's been busy this week hammering out the bones of what comes next, and you can feel it in the air around town. When T or C and the county sit down to write an MOU about development at the city's
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Ty's Take City hall spending three and a half million under budget in a year when water levels at Elephant Butte stayed low and county revenues came in tight tells you something about how this town's learning to operate. Nobody here expects boom times anymore, and
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Ty's Take August's heat is when a town remembers what it's built on, and an ice cream social isn't just dessert around here, it's a gathering where folks catch up on water talk and school news in the shade. The