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Ty's Take A $10,000 gift to the Carnegie Library doesn't sound like much until you've watched a county seat library operate on a shoestring, and then you understand it's the difference between keeping the doors open and hoping someone upstairs remembers
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Ty's Take The week's good news runs straight through the heart of what makes this valley work: somebody's doing the job right, somebody's remembering the history that got us here, somebody's ready when things go sideways. The heat wave that
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Ty's Take Primary day is coming up fast, and voters are going to have their hands full sorting through candidates and those ballot measures everybody's been talking about. The Shield Maidens are asking hard questions about what some of those initiatives actually do, and meanwhile there&
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Ty's Take The commissioners just pumped the brakes on a data center at Spaceport America, and you can feel the tension underneath that unanimous vote. Nobody around here is against growth, but there's a real question about what kind of growth makes sense in the high
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Ty's Take Budget meetings that pit one good thing against another good thing are the hardest kind, and the city council's choice between fixing streets and funding the library and museum says everything about where we are right now. Nobody's arguing these places don&
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Ty's Take The county fair this week does what it's always done: brings everybody together for a couple days and reminds you why you live here. You've got the 4-H kids showing rabbits and poultry, families lining the fence for the rodeo, folks
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Ty's Take Between the evacuation order on Lower Blanco Road and the water district holding firm on Stage 2 restrictions, this week reminds us that living in the San Juans means managing real hazards alongside real scarcity. But look at what else is happening: families signing kids up
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Ty's Take Fire season hit us hard enough in 2000 and 2011 that this town doesn't take the Oso Canyon fire west of Española lightly, even if it's still miles away and the county just lifted restrictions. The crews working that rough terrain above
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Ty's Take A man drowned at a local campground this week, which is the kind of call that doesn't sit right with anybody in a river town like ours. The details are still coming in through the sheriff's office, but deaths in the water
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On the Water TodayLake level: 659.39 ft (0.6 ft below full pool) Today 92° Mostly Sunny · Tonight 71° Mostly Clear · Thursday 91° Mostly SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take The ambulance district's wage increase and the fire board's talk
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Ty's Take A boy in a buggy hit by a car in Summersville, a woman in serious condition after a two-vehicle crash up near Plato, and the heat bearing down on all of us. That's the week so far, and it reminds you that summer