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Ty's Take Thirty years of managing timber sales, wilderness permits, and the constant balancing act between recreation and resource protection comes to an end this month when the Saguache district ranger hangs it up. That's a long tenure in one of the most complicated positions you
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Ty's Take Matt Abbey's got his work cut out for him as the new economic development director, and that's before you factor in what every growing town in the San Luis Valley knows: water. The timing matters here, especially with Adams State jumping into
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Ty's Take The state's lawsuit against Meta is the kind of thing that feels like it happens somewhere else, until you realize your own kids are staring at their phones instead of looking at the Sangre de Cristos. Colorado's AG is making noise about
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Ty's Take Heat like this doesn't come and go in the valley, it settles in and stays awhile once we get to late summer, and at this elevation it hits different than down on the Front Range. The real concern isn't just keeping cool,
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande commissioners made the right call this week, and you can bet the reasoning had everything to do with water. Data centers are thirsty operations, and around here that's not an abstract problem, it's the difference between keeping your ditch
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Ty's Take The Alamosa water case heading back to trial is about as close as we get to watching the San Luis Valley's future argued out in open court. These fights over the Rio Grande never really end, they just shift from one courtroom to another,
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Ty's Take You spend enough years in a high-altitude valley and you learn to look up. The stars here aren't some tourist attraction you schedule around a busy week, they're part of the rhythm, same as the seasons and the water flow down
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Ty's Take Water's always been the conversation down here, whether you're talking about it over coffee or arguing about it in a meeting that lasts three hours. So it makes sense that Adams State is joining up with a Water Fellows Program, getting students
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Ty's Take Heat like this in the Valley hits different when you're older and stuck inside an air-conditioned room, which is probably why someone at the senior center had the sense to plan a mercadillo for folks who need to get out and move around
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Ty's Take A hundred and fifty years at fourteen thousand feet means you've watched this valley change in ways that matter, and the folks out at the summit station know it better than most. That's the kind of milestone worth marking, especially when you&
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Ty's Take A hundred and fifty years back, this valley was already old. The Spanish had been here two centuries by 1876, running their acequia systems the same way they do today, their land grants and water rights etched into bedrock that doesn't forget. When you&
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Ty's Take Adams State's got plenty of students who can't go five minutes without checking their phones, so watching the K-12 schools go bell-to-bell on this one will be interesting. The no-cell rule is nothing new nationally, but enforcing it