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Ty's Take The fly-in and car show this weekend is the kind of event that reminds you why people stick around here—where else can you park a restored '57 Chevy next to a Cessna on the same stretch of ground and call it Saturday? It
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Ty's Take Primary season down here always feels like watching your neighbors decide who gets to carry their mail to the courthouse—half the valley shows up, half stays home, and everybody's got an opinion about it anyway. The returns from both counties are still preliminary,
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Ty's Take You can measure the temperature of a town by what it chooses to celebrate and what it argues about in the same week. Alamosa's getting Chase Rice and Joe Nichols for the Stampede—good news for anybody wanting a night out that doesn'
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Ty's Take A man in a position to know better got behind the wheel and left someone dead in the road, and now Otero County has to reckon with that particular kind of public shame—the kind that lands in the state news feeds and makes people outside
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Ty's Take Holiday weekends always shake loose the things a town needs to handle—sanitation route changes, water-level watches down in Mountain View, the city reminders that keep things running—but what catches you this week is that Dairy Queen putting in a 60-foot Ferris wheel
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Ty's Take Water treatment and block parties, hospital plans and ambulance crews—it reads like a slow Tuesday until you remember that every one of these stories is somebody in this county trying to keep the lights on and the doors open. The wastewater plant doesn't
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Ty's Take The school board's time spent on student handbooks might sound like the kind of administrative tedium that puts people to sleep, but anybody who's sat through one of those meetings knows better—handbooks are where the rubber meets the road on what
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Ty's Take The fire season's here again, and you can feel it in the air—not just the smoke, though God knows that's coming. It's the weight of it, the way every dry week in June feels like a countdown, the way
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Ty's Take The dock fire that took four boats in one night wasn't an accident—authorities confirmed it was arson—and now we've got a Camdenton man facing charges that could cost him years and the lake community a real reckoning about who we
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Ty's Take The BLM's oil and gas lease sale landed this week like a stone dropped in still water, the kind of announcement that gets people talking different ways depending on which side of the Chama they live on—and which generation owns the land they&
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Ty's Take The state education board's approval of MAST as Montana's new statewide assessment comes with conditions attached, which is the only way these things ever work in a state as divided as ours on what kids ought to know and how we measure
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Ty's Take Stage One fire ban over in Alamosa County means the dry wind is already talking, and it's only April. Up here in Conejos we're not quite there yet, but anybody who's watched a spring blow through the valley knows how