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Ty's Take The Spark Speaker series is bringing in someone to talk senior citizens through emergency preparedness, which sounds like the kind of practical session that gets overlooked until the moment you're sitting in your house without power in January and wishing you'd paid
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over the valley in late August, when the summer work starts wrapping but fall hasn't quite landed yet. This week we're seeing that rhythm play out in the usual ways: the university
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Ty's Take Budget season always feels like the moment when a town has to answer its own hardest questions, and Alamosa's got three of them stacked up right now. The city's calling a budget session just as Adams State is posting better numbers, which
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Ty's Take Football season opened up here over the weekend, which means the valley's got something to rally around besides water fights and potato prices for the next few months. Early returns look solid across the board, the kind of starts that keep folks talking at
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Ty's Take This time of year in the valley, when the wind comes down off the high country and settles into that bone-dry cold, people start looking for reasons to get indoors and be around each other. The arts community here knows it, and that's
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Ty's Take Retirements and transitions hit different in a valley this size, especially when they involve people who've spent decades steward of the land and folks running our schools. We're losing a district ranger who knows every drainage and ridge in Saguache country, which
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Ty's Take Matt Abbey's got the job nobody envies, which might be exactly what Alamosa needs right now. The new economic development director inherits a town caught between its identity as a college anchor and its pull toward tourism dollars, all while sitting in a valley
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Ty's Take Pride Fest coming up over three days here in the valley says something about how this place has shifted, or maybe just how comfortable people finally feel being themselves in their own hometown. You don't have to agree with everything to notice that. What
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Ty's Take Nobody likes talking about taxes, but the street tax question coming up in November is one of those things that gets harder to ignore the longer you wait. Potholes don't fix themselves, and the roads around Alamosa that funnel people to the university, to
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Ty's Take Friday night lights are still a few weeks out, but the fall camps are running now and you can already see which teams have something cooking and which ones are rebuilding. Alamosa High's got some solid skill positions this year, and over in Monte
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Ty's Take There's something about a one-man show that strips away all the machinery of theater and leaves you with just talent and nerve, which maybe explains why "Fully Committed" keeps finding audiences even after all these years. The Valley Courier's
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Ty's Take When a man spends thirty years showing up for kids who aren't his own, teaching them to think, to read, to believe they belong somewhere in this world, you don't let that pass without saying something. The valley's losing somebody