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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how this town fills its calendar these days—kite festivals and anniversary celebrations mixed in with district golf tournaments and economic think pieces. Maybe that's just the rhythm of a place trying to hold onto its identity
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Ty's Take You don't have to look far around Howell County to see what college athletics has become—a money game where tennis rackets get shelved so somebody else can chase a scholarship check. Missouri State-West Plains sits in a town that understands hard choices,
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Ty's Take The Hummingbird Fire got some rain yesterday, which around these parts counts as news worth noting—not because a few afternoon thunderstorms solve anything, but because in this corner of New Mexico, we've learned to mark every drop. Meanwhile, the Tour of the Gila
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Ty's Take Genealogy's having a moment everywhere, but it hits different in a place like Pagosa where half the families have roots going back five generations and the other half arrived last Tuesday looking for a second home. The Pagosa Peak Genealogical Society's May
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Ty's Take Drowning, fire, assaults, and a pedestrian hit hard enough to send someone to the hospital—that's not the weekend most lake towns want to read about come Monday morning. What matters now is that whoever was working that dock when the boat went up
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Ty's Take Property damage calls, police checkpoints ramping up, and a charter school wrestling with its identity—that's the kind of week that reminds you Deming's at a crossroads between growth and growing pains. The state's got May checkpoints rolling through town,
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Ty's Take Every fall the question comes up the same way—usually over coffee at Bode's or leaning against a truck bed somewhere between Chama and Coyote—and it never gets settled because it was never meant to. Best chile and salsa in the valley isn&
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Ty's Take There's something about May that reminds you the work of this region gets done by people willing to show up—whether it's the nurses pulling double shifts at Billings Clinic and St. Vincent, the college grads walking across a stage after grinding
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Ty's Take River otters are back in the San Luis Valley after being gone for decades, which tells you something about how much this country has healed since we poisoned half of it. Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking folks to report sightings—and if you're
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Ty's Take Two things worth noting on a Thursday evening in Howell County: the sheriff's office collected enough prescription bottles and old medications at last week's drug take-back to keep some real trouble off the streets, and Children's Behavioral Services just
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Ty's Take Spring's come to the high country, which out here means two things happening at once: the racing season hits full stride and the fire season starts doing the same. We've got cyclists tearing through downtown this afternoon for Stage 4 of the
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Ty's Take There's something about a Thursday in late April when the town starts moving again, and you see it all at once—the dance academy kids limbering up for their Broadway show, runners signing up for the Supermom 5K, folks actually showing up to free