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Ty's Take Hard to know what to lead on when you've got the Garlic Festival coming back—that's pure Abiquiú valley joy, the kind of weekend that reminds you why people drive up from Santa Fe and why the locals tolerate it—sitting right
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Ty's Take The Yellowstone County sheriff's office is asking for more money again, and this time the numbers actually add up—they're hiring, not padding. That's the kind of budget request worth taking seriously in a county that's grown as
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Ty's Take The Sacramento Mountains are running cold and clear this time of year, which means the creeks up there are doing what they're supposed to do—holding fish that actually want to bite. Word is the upper reaches around Cloudcroft are putting out some decent
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Ty's Take Fourth of July at the lake turned into a masterclass in why you don't mess with weather and water at the same time. A storm system rolled through that had boats getting tossed like toys, a dock breaking loose with vessels still tied to
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Ty's Take The power company's giving Willow Springs fair warning about Tuesday's outage, which is the civilized way to handle it—beats finding out when the well pump quits and the coffeepot goes cold. Meanwhile, if you've been holding out hope for
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Ty's Take The Sacaton Fire's got people scrambling in the best way possible—that moment when a community realizes it needs something and actually builds it instead of waiting around. Volunteer firefighting outfits don't grow quick unless there's real need and real
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Ty's Take Fire season's come early and hard this year, with the Aspen Acres blaze already climbing into Colorado's worst on record while the Willow Fire's got people packing go-bags in their driveways—and that's the reality that'
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Ty's Take The Fourth of July parade committee's already thinking eight months ahead, which either means they learned their lesson from last year's traffic snarl or they're just optimistic the way small-town folks tend to be when summer's still
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Ty's Take Summer in Pagosa is doing what it does best—giving people reasons to stick around and remember why they're here. The library's back in full swing, Thingamajig's got the stage warm, the history museum's reminding us what 250
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Ty's Take The McCauley Springs Fire sitting at 77 percent contained as the long Fourth of July weekend wrapped up—that's the number that matters most on the plateau right now, and it's the one that'll stick with folks here longer than
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Ty's Take Fourth of July weekend at the lake came in hot this year, and not just because of the fireworks. A severe storm system rolled through during the holiday rush, knocking out power to thirty thousand people and leaving behind the kind of damage that'll
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Ty's Take The Fourth comes early to Houston this year, which means the Grand around the square fills up before lunch and stays that way through the fireworks—that's just how it works when you've got a county the size of Rhode Island and