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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
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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,