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Alamosa Daily Digest Sunday, June 21, 2026

Ty McDuffey

21 Jun 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

There's something about watching kids walk across a stage in June that makes you think about what sticks around and what doesn't. The Class of 2026 is heading out into a world that looks nothing like the one their parents left high school into, but they're carrying the same mix of hope and uncertainty everybody does at that age. And then you read that the cobblers are nearly gone from Alamosa—trades that used to be how you kept your boots alive, how you kept things going instead of throwing them out. Makes you wonder what skills this graduating class will actually need five years from now, or whether some of the real work of living here, the knowing-how-to-fix-things kind of work, is slipping away faster than we realize. Valley towns change whether we're ready or not.

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CHS Class of 2026 celebrates graduation

Centauri High School celebrated its Class of 2026 on Saturday with 85 graduates walking across the stage, many achieving remarkable milestones including 16 students with perfect GPAs and seven who earned associate degrees alongside their diplomas. The class secured over $2.4 million in scholarship...

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The last cobblers of Alamosa

Don Martinez, a 95-year-old cobbler, continues to operate Alamosa's only shoe repair shop on State Avenue with his son Joseph, proving that age is no barrier to dedication. The longtime repair team has served the community for decades and still arrives at work with the same commitment they promised...

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