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Ty's Take The obits page tells you something the business section won't—this region's still losing the generation that built it. Three names today, ranging from their seventies into their nineties, the kind of lives that spanned from when Billings was half this size
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande National Forest and the county are finally getting serious about what happens on their land come winter, which around here means snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and folks who've been doing both since before anybody called it "recreation planning." The workshop
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Ty's Take Three years is a solid vote of confidence for anybody running a university, especially one that anchors a valley like ours. Tandberg's got his hand on the pulse of Adams State—the enrollment numbers, the regional reputation, the pipeline of kids from San Luis
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Ty's Take There's something about this town that draws people who like to test themselves—maybe it's the altitude, maybe it's the history of pushing limits that seeps into the soil around here. A local triathlete grinding through multiple challenges, both the
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Ty's Take The state's flood warnings hit different when you live in hill country—water moves fast through these hollows, and Governor Kehoe's emergency declaration means someone upstream from here already got hurt by what's coming down. Worth remembering that while West
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Ty's Take The wastewater plant keeps us honest—can't build much of a future on broken pipes and fingernail-thin margins, which is why the commission's push on tiny homes reads less like vision and more like necessity. You've got Spaceport America still
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Ty's Take The Sacaton Fire's got people watching the Gila from both sides of the fence today—some worried about the wilderness they love disappearing into smoke, others hoping the burn clears out fuel before the next dry season gets worse. Weather's not helping
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Ty's Take Fire season's got the valley holding its breath again—evacuation orders coming down as fast as they went up, but the heat and wind forecast for this weekend means we're not out of the woods yet, literally or otherwise. Meanwhile, the smaller
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Ty's Take The prairies that used to cover chunks of this county before anybody planted anything didn't disappear—they've been waiting. A partnership focused on sustainable land use is doing the work to find what's left of those native grasslands around Rolla
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Ty's Take The duathlon coming up in July is one of those things that says something true about a town—whether people still believe enough in the place to show up, sweat through it together, and call it a good Saturday morning. Eighteen years running now, which in
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Ty's Take Walter Bettinger, who lived through most of the atomic age in Los Alamos, passed last week at ninety-three—a reminder that this town's founding generation, the ones who came to the Hill when it was still secret and strange, are leaving us. The news