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Ty's Take The housing shuffle between Salida and Buena Vista this week looks like problem-solving until you sit with it a minute. Two river towns that ought to be figuring out how to build their way out of this mess are instead trading credits like poker chips,
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a small county fills its calendar these days. The Wildlife Sanctuary pop-up over at Yellowstone isn't just another seasonal attraction for the tourists rolling through on their way to the park, though Lord knows we
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing when a small town's charitable calendar fills up like Pagosa Springs' has these past few weeks. A sold-out runway show for Rise, a clothing giveaway through St. Patrick's, genealogy meetings, kids' clubs starting
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Ty's Take Tim Fife's obit reads like a résumé, all those letters after his name, but any engineer who spent decades on the hill knows what that really means: a man who showed up and got things done, probably more quietly than anyone gave him credit
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Ty's Take Thomas Ocie Williams was a fixture in this valley for ninety-three years, the kind of man who showed up and did the work without needing anybody to throw him a parade about it. He's gone now, and that matters to the people who
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Ty's Take Not much happening in the news today, but that's what happens when a Tuesday gets hijacked by Taylor Swift dropping four new songs. The Mix has been running the story hard, and fair enough, there's probably a handful of folks around here
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Ty's Take Two pieces of hard news from up the valley this week, and both of them say something about who we are and what matters in a place like this. A man facing the maximum sentence for a crash that killed someone, that's the kind
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Ty's Take Chameleon Stained Glass has been turning light into art on Grand Avenue for 35 years, which in a town like this means it's watched the whole stretch change around it, watched storefronts come and go, watched what matters to people shift. That kind of
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Ty's Take You notice on a slow news day how much the real work of a town shows up in the smaller stories. A nurse who spent forty years taking care of people at TCMH finally gets to experience that care herself. The Kiwanis Club writes a check
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Ty's Take Water, boats, and neighbors showing up for each other—that's the real news around here. The airport water line didn't happen, which is fine, but the fact that somebody thought it might tells you something about where the economic dreams sit versus
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Ty's Take Freeport McMoRan's third-quarter numbers landed on desks this week, and if you've been around Silver City long enough, you know what those updates really mean for the rest of us. The Chino mine shapes whether the county's got steady
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of activism that takes root in mountain towns, the kind that shows up not with grand speeches but with a wrench in hand and a bike frame that somebody else was ready to throw away. That nonprofit pedaling affordable bikes