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Ty's Take The cattle market's been running on fumes for two years now, and word that another processing plant's closing down just makes it official: we're in a pinch that won't fix itself by spring. Fewer head to market, fewer
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Ty's Take Primary day came and went quiet, the way these things do when most folks are out working or staying cool before the heat picks up. The unofficial numbers are in for Conejos County, and what strikes you is how few surprises landed, which maybe says something
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Ty's Take Budget season always feels like the moment when a town has to answer its own hardest questions, and Alamosa's got three of them stacked up right now. The city's calling a budget session just as Adams State is posting better numbers, which
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Ty's Take There's something about the middle of the season that separates the kids who show up from the ones who actually belong out there. Right now, somewhere between October and whatever comes next, our high school athletes are proving which category they fall into, and
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to see a chase end the way this one did, but when it comes to what matters most in a small county, this week's real news is what's happening at Ozarks Medical Center and the justice center planning. You'
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Ty's Take Quarter of a billion dollars doesn't sound like a small-town number, but out here it's the price of staying alive. The next $25 million chunk of that water system work matters more than most of the infrastructure spending you'll
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by where it lets dogs run free. Silver City's wrestling match over Boston Hill's off-leash policy isn't really about canine freedom, not entirely anyway. It's the usual collision between
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Ty's Take The Arkansas is doing what it does best right now, sorting itself out after last week's rain pushed debris downstream. Meanwhile, the city's sitting down to figure out what it actually costs to keep Salida running as people keep moving here, which
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Ty's Take Holiday weeks throw everybody's routine sideways, and the trash schedule adjustment coming up is the kind of thing that sounds simple until Wednesday rolls around and half the county's wondering if their bins get picked up or not. The county waste folks
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Ty's Take Green infrastructure sounds like something dreamed up in a conference room, but what it really means is letting water do what water wants to do instead of fighting it every step. Rain gardens, permeable pavement, restored wetlands, native plantings—the kind of stuff that soaks things
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Ty's Take There's an old saying that you can't prepare for everything, but you can sure prepare for the things that matter most, and this week the paper's running down the basics in ways that won't break the bank. Whether
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Ty's Take The Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire may be history now, but those claims offices staying closed through Labor Day are a reminder this place is still in recovery mode. That 2022 burn scar stretched across 341,000 acres, and the bureaucracy of putting people