Alamosa Daily Digest Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Ty's Take
There's something about a fifty-year reunion that stops you cold—you're looking at a class photo from when the valley still felt like it belonged entirely to itself, before the interstates really changed things, before water got scarcer and the arguments louder. Centauri High School doesn't even exist anymore, swallowed up by consolidations the way a lot of small-town schools were, and that alone tells you something about what's happened out here in the last half-century. But those kids from '65 to '70 are still here, most of them, or they're coming back to remember what it felt like when a class was small enough that everybody knew everybody else's business. You see their names around town still—running ranches, teaching at Adams, working the fields their families have held onto through droughts and disputes over every drop of Rio Grande water. Fifty years is a long time to stay rooted in one place. It's worth celebrating.
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Centauri 1965-70 Class Reunion
Centauri High School is hosting a class reunion on July 16 from 2 to 6 p.m. at Cattails Golf Course in Alamosa for the classes of 1965-70, with all alumni welcome to attend. Tickets cost $25 per person and include appetizers and refreshments, with additional food and drinks available for purchase....
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