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Ty's Take Fall is the season when this valley shows its muscle, and you can see it in three different ways this week. Adams State's teams are in the thick of their schedules now, which means the college is pumping money and energy back into town
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Ty's Take The Republicans are hosting a Liberty Rally, which tells you something about where the conversation sits in Alamosa County right now. These events tend to draw the same crowd, energize the same people, and leave everyone else wondering if anybody's actually listening to anybody
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Ty's Take Fourteen measures on the Colorado ballot this fall means voters are going to need their reading glasses and maybe a stiff drink before they head to the booth. These things always pile up when the legislature can't or won't settle something, and
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Ty's Take Del Norte's five-year moratorium on Flock cameras is the kind of local decision that travels faster than the data those cameras collect. Word gets around in a valley this size, and when one town decides it doesn't want automated license plate
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Ty's Take The state Supreme Court's decision to pause livestreaming of court proceedings hits different when you're sitting in a county where water rights cases can take years and draw folks who drive hours to watch their valley's future get decided from
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Ty's Take There's something humbling about cracking open the Valley Courier from September 1876 and remembering that Alamosa wasn't always the college town we know now. Back then, people here were wrestling with the same things we wrestle with today: getting crops in before
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Ty's Take The Joe I. Vigil Open brought runners to the valley this weekend, and it's worth noting that two of our own Grizzlies crossed the finish line first. Vigil's name on that race means something here, something that goes back decades of Adams
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Ty's Take Somebody put about 150 pride flags along Main Street this week, and if you drove through town and didn't notice, you weren't paying attention. SLV Pride has been doing this work quietly for a couple years now, but there's something
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Ty's Take Town council's got their budget worksheets spread out, which means the real conversations are about to happen, the kind where priorities get sorted from wishes. Every dollar Alamosa allocates this year ripples through the whole valley, from street maintenance to whether we've
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Ty's Take A police chief packing up his office, a mining operation finally stirring after years of quiet, a bond hearing that keeps drawing national eyes back to the valley, and a Saturday night drone show lighting up the sky above town, all in the same week. That&
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Ty's Take Carbon monoxide doesn't announce itself, which is probably why Monte Vista had to remind folks this week about checking their detectors and keeping vents clear of snow and debris. You'd think after a few hard winters people would have this down, but
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Ty's Take Labor Day's come and gone, which means the valley's shifting gears whether it wants to or not. School's back in session up at Adams State, the potato harvest is moving into full swing, and that window between summer tourist season