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Ty's Take The bear in Creede is doing what bears do when water runs thin and bellies start growling, which means the drought that's been tightening its grip on the whole valley has finally worked its way up the mountain. We've watched it coming
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Ty's Take The school board's wrestling match with diesel prices is familiar enough, but there's something worth watching here beyond the quarterly budget headaches. Every time fuel costs spike, it puts pressure on routes that already stretch thin across a valley this size, and
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Ty's Take The fair's back in full swing, which means Alamogordo's doing what it does best, and the city commission's doing what it does too. When a municipal body declines to review allegations against one of its own, you can read that
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Ty's Take Taney County Medical Hospital's recertification through CLIA tells you something about the work that happens inside those walls that most of us never see. The paperwork and compliance requirements that hospitals have to navigate just to keep their doors open legally would make a
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Ty's Take The boil-water scare that rattled folks here last week turned out to be exactly what we needed, if you can call it that. The system held, the city caught the problem early, and nobody got sick, which means the infrastructure that keeps a town of
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Ty's Take There's always been something telling about what Silver City decides to notice on a given day. A muralist working downtown, a question mark hanging over the sports complex, the usual committee meetings and road closures, and underneath it all, a gun incident at Silver
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Ty's Take The SEC-barred accountant buying up Deer Valley Ranch cabins through Wyoming shell companies and renting them out is the kind of story that lands different depending on which side of the growth argument you're on. Some folks will see it as proof the
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Ty's Take Somebody at the fair board finally decided to do some house cleaning, and that's worth noticing in a county where volunteer organizations tend to run on the same people until they run out of steam entirely. New blood, new structure, new direction, that'
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Ty's Take The seed law hitting farmers around here is one of those quiet regulations that sounds simple until you actually try to plant come spring. Most growers in Carbon County can't legally use their own saved seeds anymore, which means going back to the seed
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Ty's Take You'll find a lot to unpack in this week's paper if you care about where Pagosa's headed. There's money on the table: state ag credits for our ranchers and farmers, grant dollars for the arts, tech recognition for
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Ty's Take You'll notice there's no crisis in today's news, no water main breaks or council meetings gone sideways, just a quiet week where the town's doing what a town does when things are running level. The symphony's
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Ty's Take The county's pushing ahead on 911 upgrades while folks are weighing in on everything from how they like their sports scores served up to what they think about those new license plate readers the sheriff's department is looking at. It's