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Ty's Take The screwworm alert ought to get everybody's attention around here, because that's not some distant range problem—it's in our backyard and it hits both sides of what keeps this county alive. A rancher loses cattle to parasites while an
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Ty's Take Wind's coming down off the mountains today and it's the kind that makes you want to stay inside with the coffee pot, which is fine because the Sixth Judicial District Court Judicial Nominating Commission has some work to do anyway. When those
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Ty's Take Screwworm's back in Grant County, which if you've been around livestock or wildlife here for any length of time, you know that's the kind of news that gets everybody's attention real quick. The parasitic fly doesn't
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Ty's Take Wind's been a fact of life out here forever, but when the National Weather Service puts out warnings back to back like that, it's worth paying attention. These gusts can turn a clear day dangerous fast, especially if you're out
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Ty's Take Hospitals in towns this size don't expand without reason, and Gila Regional's new MRI machine says something about where Silver City sits right now. We're not shrinking anymore. The Gran Fondo brought out cyclists and volunteers on the same weekend,
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Ty's Take The question hanging over Grant County Democratic circles isn't new, but it's getting harder to ignore. When a party that's built its reputation on holding the powerful accountable starts looking the other way on its own people, the math gets
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Ty's Take There's a particular rhythm to October in Grant County, the one where the harvest comes in and the community takes stock of itself all at once. This week we saw that rhythm on full display: the Harvest Festival bringing folks together at San Lorenzo,
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Ty's Take Thompson spent decades writing about kids who played ball on this high desert and telling their stories the way they deserved to be told, which is harder work than most people think. You don't stay in a small-town sports editor's chair
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Ty's Take The Planning and Zoning board's endorsement of a data center moratorium this week amounts to Silver City saying no thank you to one more bet on somebody else's future. We've been down that road before, watching outside money flow in
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Ty's Take Water and politics are the two things nobody around here agrees on, and next week we get both at once. The candidate forum between Luis Terrazs and Raul Turrieta on October 1st is going to draw the usual crowd of folks ready to hear what either
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Ty's Take Kiki's opening a second spot with a full kitchen and bakery, which says something about where Silver City's headed these days. A decade ago that kind of expansion would've been unthinkable in a town still nursing the mining economy'
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Ty's Take Election season here tends to bring out the idealists, which is fine. We heard candidates talk education and worker benefits this week, the things people actually need to live. But there's something worth watching in how Silver City sits at the crossroads of two