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Antonito Daily Digest Sunday, June 21, 2026

Ty McDuffey

21 Jun 2026 — 1 min read

Ty's Take

A couple hundred miles of high valley gets easier to understand from thirty thousand feet, which is what Ecoflight and the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council figured out for Public Lands Day last week—you can talk all you want about watershed and sagebrush health and how water moves through this country, but once you see it from the air, the whole puzzle clicks into place. Meanwhile, the Class of 2026 walked across the stage at Conejos, which means this valley's got another batch of young people who'll either stick around and learn what their grandparents knew about this land, or head out looking for something bigger. The truth is we need both kinds—the ones who see it from above and understand the systems, and the ones who work it on the ground year after year. In a place this old and this dry, that mix is how things hold together.

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CHS Class of 2026 celebrates graduation

Centauri High School's graduating class of 85 students celebrated their diplomas on May 23, with 16 earning perfect GPAs and seven having already completed associate degrees. The class secured $2.498 million in scholarships and sent one student to the University of Notre Dame for the first time in...

Ecoflight and San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council go aerial for Public Lands Day

The San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council partnered with EcoFlight to give local officials and community members an aerial tour of the region's public lands and conservation projects on Colorado Public Lands Day. The flights highlighted sacred sites and natural resources along the Rio Grande corridor...

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