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Ty's Take Silver City had itself a rough couple of days on the streets—a shooting that put a girl in the hospital, a truck that shouldn't have been moving through a crowd, the kind of incidents that stick with a town this size because everybody
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Ty's Take Fire season came early to the Gila this year, and those red flag warnings stacked back-to-back mean the Forest Service isn't taking chances with the wind patterns rolling through. When you've got brush that dry and ridgelines that exposed, even
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Ty's Take The pool opens Memorial Day weekend, which used to mean summer was really here—now it mostly means another round of belt-tightening for families already watching their utility bills climb. The hummingbird fire's contained but the fire watch stays active, which anybody who&
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Ty's Take A child shot in her own downtown on a Tuesday morning—that's the kind of thing that stops a town cold, and Silver City's going to feel this one for a while. The details are still coming in, but when gunfire finds
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Ty's Take The pump track going in at Santa Clara is the kind of project that shows Silver City thinking ahead—giving kids something to do that doesn't cost much and doesn't tear up the land, which in Grant County is no small thing.
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trouble that arrives when a police chief loses the confidence of his own city council, and Hurley's wrestling with it this week—administrative leave now, firing papers likely coming. These small departments run on trust more than
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Ty's Take Grant County's got some Republican write-in candidates in the mix this cycle, which means somebody wasn't happy with the primary lineup—or saw an opening nobody else spotted. Write-in campaigns around here are usually personal, born from somebody's
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how Hurley moves on those utility rate hikes—not because the numbers themselves are shocking, but because what happens in that town tends to ripple straight down into Silver City's own budget conversations. Meanwhile, our two kids
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire crossing 6,000 acres while we're still in the thick of monsoon season is a reminder that Silver City sits in one of those peculiar spots where we're never quite safe from either too much water or too little—
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a building get a second life that makes you believe a town's still got some fight in it. R&L moving into the old Gibson's space—that's not just retail shuffling, that'
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Ty's Take There's a lot of moving in Silver City right now—people saying goodbye to the old schoolhouse that taught the first generation of New Mexico public students, folks wrapping up another year on the Gila trails, and the harder kind of moving when somebody
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire's still got heat in it out there, which means the Gila's going to stay raw for a while longer. These post-fire situations are the ones that can surprise you—everybody's watching the active flames, but it&