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Ty's Take Rio Grande County's kicking off a comprehensive planning process, which around here means somebody finally decided to sit down and think past next season. In a valley where water rights disputes can swallow a decade and every acre of decent ground's been
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Ty's Take A state senator getting kicked by a cow is the kind of story that reminds you why we live out here instead of somewhere else, and also why you ought to pay attention when you're around livestock. The senator's fine, which is
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Ty's Take The Lady Zizzers are reminding this part of the Ozarks what it feels like when a program gets it right. Qualifying for state in golf for the first time since 2011, placing fifth in tennis at Joplin, these are the kinds of results that don'
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Ty's Take Every few years somebody new buys the voting machines and everybody holds their breath, and this time it's Liberty Vote taking over from Dominion with some Republican connections in the mix. But here's the thing: the actual machines stay the same, which
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Ty's Take Wind's been a fact of life out here forever, but when the National Weather Service puts out warnings back to back like that, it's worth paying attention. These gusts can turn a clear day dangerous fast, especially if you're out
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Ty's Take Three different surveys are circulating around town right now, each asking what matters most to Salida and Chaffee County. The candidates forum up in Buena Vista this Thursday will tell you what politicians think you care about. The community priorities survey wants to hear straight from
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Ty's Take October's got teeth this year. We've got a murder charge that's shaken St. James, the Ozark Alliance Theatre bringing real darkness to the stage with their Dracula production, and S&T firing up Movies on the Green with the
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Ty's Take October's here and the papers are full of it, same as always: kids playing hard into the fall season, fire district budgets that never quite stretch far enough, water questions that won't get answered by November, and two editorial boards telling you
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Ty's Take Don Owen Coffin made it to 97, which around here means he saw this town transform from a wartime secret into something altogether stranger, a place where Nobel laureates shop at the same grocery store as their neighbors and everybody knows somebody working up the hill.
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet good that doesn't make much noise around here, and it showed up this week when a church decided a woman in the congregation deserved better access to her own spiritual home. Nobody's asking for
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Ty's Take Coralie Bailey Carrier lived ninety-three years in a place that changed more in her lifetime than most towns change in a century. She saw Las Cruces grow from a crossroads into a city, watched the valley's farms get carved into subdivisions, raised her
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On the Water TodayToday 77° Showers And Thunderstorms · Tonight 46° Showers And Thunderstorms Likely · Friday 55° Partly Sunny then Chance Rain ShowersSources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take The lakefront market's doing a hard pivot these days, and anybody paying attention to property values