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Ty's Take Bill Harrison turned 104 this week, which means he's watched Silver City transform from a mining town that knew exactly what it was into something a lot harder to define—and he's still here to see it. Meanwhile, a young man sits
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Ty's Take A Grant County jury's guilty verdict, a governor's provocative remark that'll echo through every diner from here to Deming, and a special meeting about the museum—three stories that probably feel unconnected until you live here long enough to understand
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Ty's Take Three heat advisories stacked on top of each other, the Bear Fire still chewing through containment lines, and suppression crews racing the calendar before monsoon season either saves us or makes things worse—that's Silver City's week ahead in a nutshell. When
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Ty's Take Bill Harrison made it to 104 by staying put—same town, same values, same stubborn refusal to let the world move too fast around him. That kind of rootedness doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't happen in places people are always
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's finally giving people their lives back, at least the ones who've been watching ash fall on their porches and keeping a bag packed by the door. Set status lifted means you can stop sleeping in your car, stop wondering
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Ty's Take The law enforcement stories piling up this week—a former police chief facing complaints in Hurley, a conviction for high-speed flight with a child in the car—remind us that the badge doesn't come with immunity from accountability, and it shouldn't. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take Wind's been the story out here for three days running, and it's hammering us from both ends—literally trying to blow us off the map while it's pushing that Bear Fire toward some better containment numbers. That's the
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Ty's Take A quarter million dollars gone because two parties couldn't find middle ground—that's what the museum standoff cost this town, and it's the kind of wound Silver City can't afford to keep picking at. We've got
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's been pushing crews hard for over a week now, but yesterday's numbers suggest the weather's finally breaking their way—containment crept up another few points, and they've got aircraft back in rotation. In a county
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Ty's Take Fireworks bans in Bayard, animal ordinances in Hurley, and now the town council learning that turkey vultures have taken a liking to Silver City—seems like Grant County is spending a lot of energy on the small stuff while our kids are heading to nationals in
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Ty's Take The Bear Fire's still eating landscape up there, and that June 13 blowup reminds us why this country demands respect—and why we can't afford to be casual about what happens in those canyons above town. Fire doesn't care much
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Ty's Take A kid doing community work gets recognized, first responders are bracing for fentanyl exposure, and the county just voted to keep the mining companies out of Pinos Altos—all on the same news cycle, which tells you something about where Silver City is right now. We&