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Ty's Take Gary White's Hoover Medal is the kind of honor that doesn't make the national news, but it means something real in a place like this. The Missouri S&T alumnus spent his career solving water problems in some of the world&
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Ty's Take The ponderosa pines dying across Colorado hit different when you can see them from your porch. That slow burn through the San Juan National Forest isn't some distant ecological problem anymore, not when the bark beetle and drought have turned what used to be
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Ty's Take The school district's hosting a night for parents and caregivers up at the high school library, which on its face sounds like standard fall programming until you remember what this town has been through the last few years. Folks here have watched their kids
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On the Water TodayToday 76° Sunny · Tonight 54° Partly Cloudy · Sunday 77° SunnySources: USGS gauge 06925500, National Weather Service Ty's Take Two eighteen-year-olds sitting in a cell for methamphetamine distribution is the kind of story that makes you wonder what happened in the years before the
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Ty's Take School enrollments dipping a bit here and there across the county is the kind of trend that doesn't make anybody's blood boil on first read, but anybody who's been around long enough knows what it means. Young families moving out
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Ty's Take State guidance on automated license plate readers came down this week, and around here that means the conversation that's been quietly building is about to get louder. These cameras read plates faster than any deputy ever could, and they're cheap enough that
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of winter work that brings the valley together, and it doesn't happen in any boardroom or town council meeting. When neighbors gather for a matanza, the Democrats among them and the Republicans too, you're watching something
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Ty's Take Primary season came and went without much noise, which tells you something about where we're at politically around here. The real conversation, though, is happening over water and land use, the way it always does in Conejos County. The Forest Service is bringing their
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Ty's Take Pat McDermott spent decades fighting over water in this valley, which means he spent decades fighting over everything that matters around here. The Rio Grande doesn't care much about state lines or old compacts or who farmed where first, but McDermott had to, and
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Ty's Take There's a particular gravity to days when the police log reads like a catalog of broken trust, the kind that makes you wonder less about the crimes themselves and more about what's wearing people down enough to commit them. Three separate cases
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Ty's Take When a week's worth of news runs heavy on the accidents and arrests, you notice the other stories more. Willow Springs folks raised real money for cat rescue with three days of sales, the kind of thing that happens when people decide something matters
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Ty's Take The VFW's been a lot of things to this town over the years, but a produce stand probably wasn't what the old-timers pictured when they built the place. Mobile Market rolling in there on a regular basis though, that's