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Ty's Take Primary results are in and already the machinery's grinding for 2026, which tells you something about how these county races work—the moment one election closes, everybody's eyeing the next one. Meanwhile the real fights aren't happening in the voting
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Ty's Take The Morphew trial waiting until 2027 feels like something this valley needs to finally put down—not forget, but lay to rest proper—and maybe that's the only way forward when a case has lived in the headlines longer than some kids have been
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Ty's Take The water trial starting this week is really about what it's always been about down here—who gets to live in the San Luis Valley and on what terms. These aren't abstract questions about interstate compacts and Rio Grande allocations; they'
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Ty's Take Kathy Woods stepping down from city council and the county commissioners weighing term limits for the DA on the same week—that's the valley's way of reminding us that institutional memory matters in a place this size. You can count on your
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Ty's Take Kathy Woods stepping down after however many years she's put in at City Hall marks one of those quiet transitions this town barely notices until she's already gone—and then everyone remembers what they're losing. Meanwhile the council's
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Ty's Take You can measure the temperature of a town by what it chooses to celebrate and what it argues about in the same week. Alamosa's getting Chase Rice and Joe Nichols for the Stampede—good news for anybody wanting a night out that doesn'
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Ty's Take The fire restrictions going into effect across the valley are the seasonal reminder we all need—in a high-altitude basin where the nearest water sources are already spoken for three times over, wildfire smoke doesn't just darken the sky, it threatens the whole
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Ty's Take Water's been the conversation in this valley since before any of us were born, but Monday marks something different—a trial that'll shape how the Rio Grande gets split up for the next generation, maybe longer. You can't live here
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Ty's Take South Fork's got plenty of reasons to be grateful this week—two people walked away from a plane crash that could've ended a whole lot different, and that's the kind of luck you don't take for granted up
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Ty's Take The old ways don't disappear in the San Luis Valley—they just find new keepers. When a teacher brings abuela's recipes and stories into a classroom, that's not nostalgia, that's survival. This region's been holding onto
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Ty's Take Slow week up the valley, which around here usually means folks are either out working the land or getting their summer events squared away. We've got an author-filmmaker coming through the library and Manassa gearing up for their Pioneer Days 5K—the kind
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Ty's Take You know what a Monday briefing means in a town this size—somebody's got to pull the week together before anybody else gets moving. That's the work that doesn't make headlines, the editor or the city clerk or whoever'