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Ty's Take A health fair in late June and a fire in early July—seems like the kind of week that reminds you Silver City's always operating on two tracks at once. On one end of the calendar, folks are lining up at the resource fair
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Ty's Take The Sacaton Fire's got people scrambling in the best way possible—that moment when a community realizes it needs something and actually builds it instead of waiting around. Volunteer firefighting outfits don't grow quick unless there's real need and real
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Ty's Take Fire's got the whole northern spine of the county tied up tight—NM 59 dark, the Winston area burning hot enough to expand the evacuation zone down toward Mogollon, and the Sacaton fire handed off to a Type 3 team, which means this thing&
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Ty's Take The Sacaton Fire's got the Gila closed off again, and that's hitting different this year—not because fires are new to us, but because the dry season came early and mean, and everybody out there knows what that means for August. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Early morning fires hit twice this week—once in town at the Furniture Gallery, once out in the brush near Highway 90—which around here is usually a reminder that Silver City sits in two different worlds at once. Downtown, we've got the galleries
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Ty's Take There's something fitting about a week where we're wrestling with water rates and a deputy's plea deal while honoring the men who survived the Bataan Death March—the kind of day-to-day stuff that actually matters in a place like Silver
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Ty's Take The school board's time spent on student handbooks might sound like the kind of administrative tedium that puts people to sleep, but anybody who's sat through one of those meetings knows better—handbooks are where the rubber meets the road on what
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Ty's Take Santa Clara's got itself a new bike park, which on the surface sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect in a town trying to rebrand itself—and there's nothing wrong with that. But pull back and you're
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July deadline creeping up on Monday is one of those annual reminders that Silver City still knows how to throw a party, which matters more than people outside here seem to understand—a good parade and a few vendors hawking corn dogs and
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Ty's Take Fire season's arrived early in the Gila, and that smoke hanging over the ridges isn't something to ignore. The Sacaton Fire's still in the wilderness country where it can run, but Red Flag Warnings tell you the conditions are primed
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Ty's Take County commissioners calling the Phelps-Dodge property a "historical and ecological asset" is the kind of language you use when you're trying to have it both ways—honoring what the mine meant to Silver City's bones while keeping the door open
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Ty's Take The last dance hall in Silver City is closing its doors, and that's worth sitting with for a minute—not because we're losing some glamorous relic, but because places like the Flame were where this town actually lived. You could walk in