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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 system.
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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 of
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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'
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Ty's Take There's something about watching kids walk across a stage in June that makes you think about what sticks around and what doesn't. The Class of 2026 is heading out into a world that looks nothing like the one their parents left high
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Ty's Take The EPA coming to town to answer questions about the Superfund project is the kind of thing that gets people talking in this valley—and for good reason, since we've been living with the aftermath of that contamination longer than most folks want to
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Ty's Take The city's rolling out AI software for the police department while launching a mental health initiative aimed at young people—which tells you something about where we're at right now, doesn't it? We're trying to catch problems faster
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Ty's Take When a slow week hits Alamosa, you're looking at the kind of news that actually matters—kids learning to handle horses at the Extension clinic, old classmates from Centauri finding their way back, music pulling people into Society Hall like it always has. That&