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Ty's Take Small towns live and die by who's wearing the badge, and when a police chief walks out the door—especially under the kind of circumstances that make a city council reach for the termination papers—everybody in the county feels it. Hurley's
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Ty's Take There's a stretch of June where Pagosa Springs feels like it's trying on a dozen different versions of itself all at once—the Forest Service throws open the gates for free, a peace run moves through town, somebody's staging a
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Ty's Take A black bear nosing through a Domino's dumpster and a guy pulling a mushroom the size of a dinner plate out of the woods—that's the Lake this week in a nutshell, equal parts tourism brochure and real life happening in the
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Ty's Take A wrong-way driver on I-10 killed somebody this week, and now faces a homicide charge—the kind of story that reminds you how fast things turn catastrophic out here, especially when alcohol's involved. Meanwhile, the town's getting ready for summer
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Ty's Take The push for a two-year moratorium on large data centers tells you something about where Yellowstone County sits right now—caught between the promise of new industry and the hard-won skepticism that comes from watching energy booms come and go. Data centers sound clean
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Ty's Take The Stillhouse Junkies coming back to Society Hall is the kind of thing that reminds you why people stick around the valley—live music in a room where everybody knows everybody, the kind of night that costs nothing but means everything. But what caught my eye
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Ty's Take When you're a newspaper editor in a valley this old, you learn that the hard news and the good news often come on the same day—a missing woman found safe, a fire that could've been worse but wasn't, the
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Ty's Take Anastacia "Tatcha" Thomas was the kind of person this town needs more of—someone who showed up, stayed put, and made things better in the quiet way that doesn't always make the papers until it's too late. We don'
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Ty's Take Monday's Road to Remember ceremony will draw folks who've made the hard walk to that wall, and this week Willow Springs is putting out the welcome mat with Music on Main and getting ready for their Fourth parade—the kind of summer
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how Williamsburg's stormwater plan threads the needle between growth and the Rio Grande—fix the streets, control runoff, protect the river that keeps this whole county alive. Meanwhile, the BLM is fast-tracking a pipeline review for
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Ty's Take There's a particular weight to Memorial Day out here, where half the county seems to have someone buried at Fort Bayard and the other half is still out working the land those people fought for. This year's ceremony falls right as fire
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Ty's Take The stack of stories this week—wildfire prep costs climbing, water staying tight, geothermal schemes eyeing our backyard—keeps circling back to the same hard truth about living here: paradise costs something, and it's not just the second-mortgage payment. We can host festivals