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Ty's Take The fire district's clean audit is the kind of news that doesn't make anybody's blood pump faster, but it should matter more than it does—especially in a place where wildfire risk keeps half the county awake at night come
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Ty's Take You don't have to read far down today's wire before the contrast hits you—a detective in Bernalillo County just got convicted for tipping off drug targets to the DEA, while up here on the Hill the state's handing out
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Ty's Take Lebanon's getting a taste of that old Route 66 magic this week with a Hollywood premiere coming to town. A film built around Laclede County memories—the kind of stories that don't usually get told outside the county line—is bringing some
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Ty's Take Dog days of summer and the TV guide is what we're working with—which tells you everything about how quiet things get around here come mid-July. But that's not nothing. It means the schools are empty, the Aggies aren't playing,
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in the noise today: while the expo crowd rolls out new sunroom finishes and coffee roasters tout their freshness, the real story underneath is that folks around here are still building, still spending, still betting on tomorrow even as Missouri&
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Ty's Take You don't have to look far in a county this size to understand how the small things and the serious things run parallel—the school board working through the particulars of a new scoreboard while federal cases are being decided in the courtroom down
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Ty's Take Slow week in the valley, which around here usually means everybody's out in the fields or already thinking about the next harvest cycle. The TV guide hits different when you're a farming town—half the county's probably still outside at
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Ty's Take There's something about a radio station giving away Disney on Ice tickets that reminds you how small towns keep themselves going—not with the big stuff, but with the little breaks that make life feel less like grinding through another week. Mix 94.3&
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Ty's Take A woman faces murder charges in a killing at the Spa Hot Springs, another family buries two sisters lost to road accidents, and somewhere in this county right now a family is grieving—the kind of grief that doesn't make the job postings or
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Ty's Take Out here we've always known the wind doesn't blow for free—it's just taken us a while to figure out what to do with it. The open house on the wind farm gives folks a chance to see what that
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Ty's Take When a high-speed chase ends with the sheriff's people having to call in SWAT, and bears are hungry enough to wander down into Creede looking for trouble, and the state's telling anglers to back off two stretches of the Rio Grande—well,
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Ty's Take Word came down this week that a missing hiker made it out of the high country alive, which is how these stories usually end around here when folks know what they're doing—but it's also a reminder that the San Luis Valley