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Ty's Take The heat advisories piling up in the scanner traffic tell you everything about the week ahead, but there's something else worth watching beneath the surface of these routine headlines. A state land purchase in the Mimbres Valley, a library facing the budget knife in
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Ty's Take You can see what Silver City's actually worried about these days just by reading down the page. We've got fights with the federal government over school mental health money, a new massage school trying to fill the gap where real therapists should
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Ty's Take Budget meetings that pit one good thing against another good thing are the hardest kind, and the city council's choice between fixing streets and funding the library and museum says everything about where we are right now. Nobody's arguing these places don&
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Ty's Take The weather service had its eye on Luna County yesterday, but anybody who lives along the Mimbres knows the wind doesn't much care about county lines, and neither does water when it wants to move. Folks around Lake Roberts woke up to flooding that
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Ty's Take Jose Jaurequi spent better than fifty years in these hills, which around Grant County means he was woven into the fabric the way copper is woven into rock. The memorial reception today gives folks a chance to do what this community does best: gather and remember
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Ty's Take Grant County's losing its county manager in October, which means somebody's got to know where all the bodies are buried, figuratively speaking. That's institutional knowledge you can't fake, and it usually takes a new person six months just
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Ty's Take Folks getting caught up in a vacant land swindle while we're sitting under a flood advisory is about as on-brand as Silver City gets these days. Some outfit's out there convincing property owners they owe taxes or fees on land that
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Ty's Take Western New Mexico University is getting named the regional STEM hub, which sounds like the kind of thing that looks good on a grant application but might actually matter out here. A university town needs something more than just enrollment numbers and football games, and if
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Ty's Take Drug busts and water meetings tend to fade from memory pretty quick, but what sticks around is what we choose to keep alive. That's what makes this week's mix of news worth thinking about all at once. Ten people facing trafficking charges
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Ty's Take The drug busts this week—six arrested, grand jury indictments rolling in—remind us that trouble doesn't announce itself in a town like Silver City. It's here, quiet, mixed in with everything else we're trying to build. But what caught
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Ty's Take Water's running where it usually doesn't, which out here means paying attention to which roads are still passable and which ones have turned into temporary arroyos. The Mimbres is up, wet roads are slicking things around Deming and Akela, and the Forest
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of county road between Hachita and the interstate that's been gnawing at people for years—dust, potholes, the kind of surface that'll shake your fillings loose if you're not careful. This alert suggests something'