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Ty's Take Out here, we don't often get to see the machinery of justice work in our favor, but the decision to drop charges against that Arkansas man—a father who acted to protect his daughter—reminds us that sometimes the law catches up with what
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Ty's Take Screwworms don't usually make the news around here until they've already made their way through a herd, which is why that confirmed case over in the county deserves the attention it's getting today. These parasites don't care much
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Ty's Take Two new faces on the County Commission, a downtown storefront filling after months vacant, five brush fires that didn't spread—on the surface, a decent week in Grant County. But underneath it's the usual tug-of-war that never really quits around here. New
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Ty's Take A grizzly working the country south of town is a reminder that we live in a place where the wild still has first claim on the land, and it changes how you think about everything else—your evening walk, your kid's summer camp, the
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Ty's Take Stage 1 fire restrictions are up, the water conservancy is still working through the Rio Blanco dispute, and folks down in Arboles are worried about drilling—which means the usual spring conversation is happening all over again, the one where we talk about who gets what
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Ty's Take Carol Ann Knapp Foreman was the kind of person this valley needed—someone who showed up and stayed, who understood that a life well-lived around here meant working with your hands and your heart both. The loss of someone like that hits different in a town
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Ty's Take A motorcyclist swerving to miss a deer, six school buses pulled for safety, chlorine pumps going in at water wells across the county—the kind of week where you notice the systems holding things together, and the moments they almost don't. The Rotary raised
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Ty's Take The governor's drought declaration lands different when you're looking at your well gauge instead of a statewide map, and every farmer from here to the Florida Mountains knows it. New Mexico's been running on fumes for years, but Luna County
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Ty's Take When a man pleads guilty to meth charges after being swept up in a controversial police raid, when two scientists from one of the region's most sensitive research facilities face federal charges, and when the county sheriff's office is searching for interim
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Ty's Take Ted Turner's death this week closes a chapter on private conservation that won't come around again, not in this lifetime anyway. A man with enough money to think in generations instead of quarters bought up nearly two million acres across the West—
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a class walk across that stage at Conejos High that reminds you the valley still holds its own—kids who grew up in these towns, who know the land and the language and the history that sits underneath it all,
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Ty's Take The levee that holds back the Rio Grande has been part of this valley's conversation since before most of us were born—water rights, flood control, whether we're protecting enough or too much, and who gets to decide. Now Alamosa's