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Ty's Take Every summer around here comes down to the same calculation: how many weekends before the heat really sets in and people stop venturing out, before water becomes the only thing anybody wants to talk about again. This first big one—Society Hall packed for the songwriters,
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Ty's Take Two papers coming together in the San Luis Valley usually means one thing—we're all trying to figure out how to keep doing this work when the economics keep squeezing tighter. The Valley Courier and SLV Journal merger is the kind of move you
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Ty's Take Election season's heating up in the valley, which means we're about to spend the next few months learning what our neighbors actually think about water, development, and whether Adams State's footprint should keep growing. Sherry Perdue's thrown her
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Ty's Take The levee that holds back the Rio Grande has been part of this valley's conversation since before most of us were born—water rights, flood control, whether we're protecting enough or too much, and who gets to decide. Now Alamosa's
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Ty's Take The Great Sand Dunes pulled in more visitors than ever these first four months of the year, which tells you something about what people are hungry for—space, silence, something that doesn't require a WiFi password. That's good news for the valley&
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Ty's Take The valley's been through enough dry spells and hard news lately that seeing a missing woman found safe again feels like the kind of thing that actually matters—the kind that reminds you why small towns still work, why people show up when someone&
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Ty's Take When a man gets sentenced for crimes against children in a town this size, everybody knows somebody who knew him, and that's the weight that sits on a community for a long time afterward. The Sheriff's Office naming new leadership—an undersheriff
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Ty's Take That's the kind of talk you hear when somebody's actually put skin in the game—when they're not just running a business but trying to build something that matters. The Valley Courier folks know they're swimming upstream against
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Ty's Take Two of the valley's oldest news voices decided this week they're stronger together than apart, which says something about where we are right now—smaller papers everywhere are figuring out that survival means consolidation, and our region's no different. But
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Ty's Take Joe Martinez taking over SLV Federal Bank is the kind of continuity this valley needs right now. He's not some transplant from Denver or a suit flown in by a holding company—he's built his career here, understands what it means when
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Ty's Take Graduation week in a town like Alamosa hits different when half the kids leaving have roots going back generations—families who've worked this valley, fought over water rights, built something that matters. You see them walk across that stage and you're watching
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Ty's Take When you're a newspaper editor in a valley this old, you learn that the hard news and the good news often come on the same day—a missing woman found safe, a fire that could've been worse but wasn't, the