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Ty's Take The monsoon's rolling through today, which means anybody heading north on 61 toward Mimbres needs to take it slow and expect standing water where the arroyos decide they've had enough of dry ground. County's had the flood advisory up since
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Ty's Take The burro race is back on Boston Hill this weekend, which means Silver City's still got enough grit and humor to laugh at itself, and that matters more than you'd think when you're sitting in the middle of conversations about
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Ty's Take The data center fight brewing in Grant County is the real story today, not because it's new (these things circle back), but because opposition is organizing before the bulldozers show up instead of after. That's how you change an outcome in rural
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Ty's Take Labor Day weekend brought the kind of traffic Silver City actually wants to see, with art seekers wandering through the Red Dot Studio Tour instead of the usual folks just passing through on their way to somewhere else. The Art Association's annual open-studio
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Ty's Take The Gem and Mineral Show coming back to Silver City this weekend is one of those events that reminds you this town sits at the crossroads of something real. You get the rockhounds and the geology professors rubbing shoulders with tourists who wandered off the trail
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Ty's Take There's something about fire lookouts that pulls at people who've spent time in country like ours, and it's no accident that both New Mexico books heading to the national festival this month have them at the center. Maybe it'
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Ty's Take The Gem and Mineral Show coming back this weekend isn't just another event on the calendar around here, it's a reminder of who we are and what we've always been pulling out of this ground. Silver City's whole
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Ty's Take The lockdown at Silver schools Tuesday hit different than the drills. When a teacher gets arrested on campus, even briefly, parents get calls and kids get scared, and you can't blame either one. By afternoon it was over, the building was secure, and life
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Ty's Take A school teacher arrested, a new funeral home pitching affordability, and the university planning its biggest homecoming yet—on the surface, this is just Tuesday in Grant County. But there's something about a slow week like this one that reminds you how much of
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by where it lets dogs run free. Silver City's wrestling match over Boston Hill's off-leash policy isn't really about canine freedom, not entirely anyway. It's the usual collision between
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Ty's Take The Silco coming back to life in time for the film festival says something true about this town that the trash rate argument doesn't quite capture, though both are worth your attention. One is Silver City deciding it still believes in gathering together in
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Ty's Take When the monsoon season hits the Mimbres drainage hard enough to trigger flash flood warnings, it's a reminder that this country doesn't care much about our municipal headaches. The solid waste questions hanging over the county commission can wait until the water