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Ty's Take Genealogy's having a moment everywhere, but it hits different in a place like Pagosa where half the families have roots going back five generations and the other half arrived last Tuesday looking for a second home. The Pagosa Peak Genealogical Society's May
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Ty's Take Drowning, fire, assaults, and a pedestrian hit hard enough to send someone to the hospital—that's not the weekend most lake towns want to read about come Monday morning. What matters now is that whoever was working that dock when the boat went up
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Ty's Take Property damage calls, police checkpoints ramping up, and a charter school wrestling with its identity—that's the kind of week that reminds you Deming's at a crossroads between growth and growing pains. The state's got May checkpoints rolling through town,
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Ty's Take Every fall the question comes up the same way—usually over coffee at Bode's or leaning against a truck bed somewhere between Chama and Coyote—and it never gets settled because it was never meant to. Best chile and salsa in the valley isn&
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Ty's Take There's something about May that reminds you the work of this region gets done by people willing to show up—whether it's the nurses pulling double shifts at Billings Clinic and St. Vincent, the college grads walking across a stage after grinding
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Ty's Take River otters are back in the San Luis Valley after being gone for decades, which tells you something about how much this country has healed since we poisoned half of it. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking folks to report sightings—and if you're
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Ty's Take Two things worth noting on a Thursday evening in Howell County: the sheriff's office collected enough prescription bottles and old medications at last week's drug take-back to keep some real trouble off the streets, and Children's Behavioral Services just raised
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Ty's Take Spring's come to the high country, which out here means two things happening at once: the racing season hits full stride and the fire season starts doing the same. We've got cyclists tearing through downtown this afternoon for Stage 4 of the
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Ty's Take There's something about a Thursday in late April when the town starts moving again, and you see it all at once—the dance academy kids limbering up for their Broadway show, runners signing up for the Supermom 5K, folks actually showing up to free
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Ty's Take Water's running high this time of year, and the lake's been pulling hard on anybody fool enough to underestimate her—two drowning calls in as many days out on the Niangua arm tells you something about spring on the Ozarks. We'
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Ty's Take Chip seal season is here again, which means the next few weeks are going to feel like your truck's suspension is getting a personal workout every time you head out to the ranch or over to Las Cruces. Luna County's got crews
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are out working—calving season doesn't wait for news cycles, and the acequia boards have their hands full sorting water rights before the runoff peaks. The quiet weeks are when you notice who&