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Ty's Take You've got a city trying to figure out what it wants to be—a regional sports destination with money and infrastructure to match, or a place where teachers are leaving because the work's gotten dangerous and the pay won't follow
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Ty's Take There's something about a small town that makes you notice when the same man shows up twice on the same roster—once as dad, once as coach. Out here where everybody knows who your people are, that overlap isn't accidental. It'
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Ty's Take City council work doesn't grab headlines the way it should—updating animal control codes and property ordinances sounds dry until you're the one trying to figure out what you can and can't do with your own land, or dealing with
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Ty's Take The tree die-off spreading across the state isn't some distant forest service problem—it's in our backyard, literally, and it's accelerating. When you've got three times the tree mortality this year compared to last, you're
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Ty's Take Bill Harrison made it to 104 by staying put—same town, same values, same stubborn refusal to let the world move too fast around him. That kind of rootedness doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't happen in places people are always
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Ty's Take SpiritFire's got a full calendar coming up, and that tells you something about what people around here are hungry for right now—connection, meaning, a chance to sit with neighbors who aren't arguing about second homes or water allocations. We're
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Ty's Take Busy weekend on the water and off it—an Illinois visitor in the hospital after a boating incident, a wreck that sent someone to Morgan County Medical, and fire crews rolling on a condo complex over in Osage Beach that turned out to be containable. Nothing
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Ty's Take The Barela case closing out at the state Supreme Court level means this fight over who runs things in Rio Arriba County—and how—isn't going to get any prettier on the way down. These land-grant communities have long memories and longer grudges,
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Ty's Take Death notices in a small city read like a map of who held things together—teachers, nurses, shop owners, the kind of people you'd see at MetraPark or standing in line at the courthouse. The Heart & Sole run on Father's Day
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Ty's Take A couple hundred miles of high valley gets easier to understand from thirty thousand feet, which is what Ecoflight and the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council figured out for Public Lands Day last week—you can talk all you want about watershed and sagebrush health and
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Ty's Take There's something about watching kids walk across a stage in June that makes you think about what sticks around and what doesn't. The Class of 2026 is heading out into a world that looks nothing like the one their parents left high
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Ty's Take Five girls from Otero County made All-State in softball, which means five families are going to have those clippings on the refrigerator for a good long while, and they've earned it. This is the kind of news that doesn't move state