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Ty's Take The Gem and Mineral Show coming back this weekend isn't just another event on the calendar around here, it's a reminder of who we are and what we've always been pulling out of this ground. Silver City's whole
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Ty's Take The lockdown at Silver schools Tuesday hit different than the drills. When a teacher gets arrested on campus, even briefly, parents get calls and kids get scared, and you can't blame either one. By afternoon it was over, the building was secure, and life
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Ty's Take A school teacher arrested, a new funeral home pitching affordability, and the university planning its biggest homecoming yet—on the surface, this is just Tuesday in Grant County. But there's something about a slow week like this one that reminds you how much of
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by where it lets dogs run free. Silver City's wrestling match over Boston Hill's off-leash policy isn't really about canine freedom, not entirely anyway. It's the usual collision between
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Ty's Take The Silco coming back to life in time for the film festival says something true about this town that the trash rate argument doesn't quite capture, though both are worth your attention. One is Silver City deciding it still believes in gathering together in
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Ty's Take When the monsoon season hits the Mimbres drainage hard enough to trigger flash flood warnings, it's a reminder that this country doesn't care much about our municipal headaches. The solid waste questions hanging over the county commission can wait until the water
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Ty's Take The kind of week where Silver City's getting five million dollars for healthcare while two towns in the county are tangled up in audits and federal trouble tells you something about the luck of the draw around here. Money flows to the health clinics
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Ty's Take There's something about a Monday chase down U.S. 180 that gets people talking around here, and by Tuesday morning the whole county's already picked it apart in the coffee shops and on the scanner. State Police do their job, an arrest
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into a town by what it argues about, and Silver City's having a real one right now. We're fighting over intersection redesigns and landfill fees and whether a compost operation makes sense for our recycling future, which
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Ty's Take Two community institutions marking milestones this week, and both tell you something about what holds Silver City together. The Woman's Club bringing families in for a day of activities is the kind of glue work that doesn't make anybody's name
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town handles its pieces, and Jose Barrios's legacy moving into a new home at Aldo Leopold School tells you most of what you need to know. Barrios spent decades pulling this community toward its better
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to see a school lose its fields, but the talk about Altamirano is worth paying attention to because it says something about how tight things are getting around here. When a district starts looking at what it owns and thinking hard about what it