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Ty's Take The rain that's been hammering us all week is exactly the kind of thing that forces a town like Silver City to look at itself honestly. A flood watch, recovery month, a data center moratorium, and now tonight's screwworm meeting all point
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Ty's Take Two days of heavy rain coming through Friday has the National Weather Service keeping a close eye on our arroyos and low-water crossings, and the timing couldn't be tighter with that prescribed burn they're planning to start tomorrow up near Pinos
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Ty's Take There's something worth noting when a whole community stops to say thanks to the people keeping the town's story alive. The Silver City Museum isn't some big operation with deep pockets and a staff that never worries about the next
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Ty's Take When a threat closes down the schools and puts parents in their cars heading to pick up their kids, everything else stops mattering for a few hours. We don't know yet what happened or who made the call, but the shelter-in-place drill
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Ty's Take Screwworms in the Mimbres Valley, flood damage over in Deming, and now the Forest Service is fixing to light fires in the Pinos Altos come fall. It's the kind of week that reminds you this country doesn't sit still, and neither can
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Ty's Take The stabbing arrest and the roadless rule hearing landed on the same news cycle, which tells you something about Silver City right now. We're a town caught between the old trouble and the new trouble, between crime that shows up sudden and dark in
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Ty's Take September 16th means something different depending who you ask in Silver City. Some folks are thinking about El Grito de Dolores and what that cry for independence meant, echoing from Mexico City all the way here. Others are out on Boston Hill watching burros come back
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Ty's Take Weather's been the unpredictable neighbor lately, and this week the National Weather Service is flagging flood conditions that could make the Gila run harder than it has in months. That matters out here where water's always the argument underneath everything else, whether
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Ty's Take Monsoon season doesn't announce itself politely around here, and tonight's flood advisory across Grant County is a reminder that water moves fast when it decides to move at all. If you're anywhere near an arroyo or wash between now and
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Ty's Take The news this week reads like Silver City doing what it's always done, which is figuring out how to keep the lights on while staying true to itself. Food Basket changing hands shouldn't be glossed over, because those grocery stores are where
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Ty's Take Western New Mexico University keeps talking about getting competitive on wages, and now there's a study saying they're on the path to it, which is the kind of thing institutions say when they're not quite there yet. The university is
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Ty's Take Turkey Creek's been catching hell from both sides this week, which is about what you'd expect when a county crew shows up with a dump truck and somebody's got a camera phone. The allegations about debris landing in the creek