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Ty's Take Two calls that say something about summer in a town like ours. A parking lot loitering complaint that tied up police time, and out at the campgrounds, a drowning that reminds us again how fast the water can turn serious. This time of year brings people
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 94° Sunny · Tonight 73° Partly Cloudy · Sunday 100° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Shootout Weekend's coming up in a couple days, and if you're
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Ty's Take Ten years of STEM grants and a new hospitalist at the hospital means somebody around the county office and the healthcare board has been doing their homework, and doing it well. But what really jumps out this week is how seriously the schools are taking their
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Ty's Take Bernie Carrillo made it to 92, which in farm country means you saw the whole arc of how things work around here. You watched the valley change, watched the families stay or move on, watched what happened when the water came reliable and what happened when
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Ty's Take One year in, the state's park pass program for veterans isn't making headlines the way some initiatives do, but it's the kind of quiet benefit that matters more than the noise around it. You've got vets in Luna
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Ty's Take When a man walks into a restaurant with a chisel, when another man threatens somebody over a burrito order, when the trash bill goes up another five bucks a month, you're looking at a stretch of news that says something about life up here
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Ty's Take There are days when a newspaper runs the obits and the sports scores and feels like it's just going through the motions, and then there are days like this, when those same routines sit alongside the hardest stories a community has to tell. Sunday&
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Ty's Take A young hiker from Bozeman is dead in the Park County backcountry, and while the details are still coming together, it's a reminder that these mountains don't care how fit you are or how well you think you know the country. We&
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Ty's Take Fire season's starting early up in the high country, and that Schrader Creek burn on the Rio Grande National Forest near Del Norte is a reminder that we're one dry spring away from real trouble. Nine acres isn't catastrophic yet,
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Ty's Take Matt Abbey's got the job nobody envies, which might be exactly what Alamosa needs right now. The new economic development director inherits a town caught between its identity as a college anchor and its pull toward tourism dollars, all while sitting in a valley
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Ty's Take A bank marking seven decades in Otero County is more than a business milestone, it's a marker of what it takes to stay rooted here through boom and bust, through missile range expansions and water fights that never quite get settled. First National has
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Ty's Take West Plains High School soccer has the makings of a real run this fall, and you can trace it straight back to the fact that these Zizzers are keeping most of their roster together. Experience in a sport like soccer is worth its weight in hay