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Ty's Take The Joe I. Vigil Open brought runners to the valley this weekend, and it's worth noting that two of our own Grizzlies crossed the finish line first. Vigil's name on that race means something here, something that goes back decades of Adams
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Ty's Take Somebody put about 150 pride flags along Main Street this week, and if you drove through town and didn't notice, you weren't paying attention. SLV Pride has been doing this work quietly for a couple years now, but there's something
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Ty's Take Town council's got their budget worksheets spread out, which means the real conversations are about to happen, the kind where priorities get sorted from wishes. Every dollar Alamosa allocates this year ripples through the whole valley, from street maintenance to whether we've
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Ty's Take A police chief packing up his office, a mining operation finally stirring after years of quiet, a bond hearing that keeps drawing national eyes back to the valley, and a Saturday night drone show lighting up the sky above town, all in the same week. That&
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Ty's Take Carbon monoxide doesn't announce itself, which is probably why Monte Vista had to remind folks this week about checking their detectors and keeping vents clear of snow and debris. You'd think after a few hard winters people would have this down, but
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Ty's Take Labor Day's come and gone, which means the valley's shifting gears whether it wants to or not. School's back in session up at Adams State, the potato harvest is moving into full swing, and that window between summer tourist season
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Ty's Take The Spark Speaker series is bringing in someone to talk senior citizens through emergency preparedness, which sounds like the kind of practical session that gets overlooked until the moment you're sitting in your house without power in January and wishing you'd paid
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of quiet that settles over the valley in late August, when the summer work starts wrapping but fall hasn't quite landed yet. This week we're seeing that rhythm play out in the usual ways: the university
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Ty's Take Budget season always feels like the moment when a town has to answer its own hardest questions, and Alamosa's got three of them stacked up right now. The city's calling a budget session just as Adams State is posting better numbers, which
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Ty's Take Football season opened up here over the weekend, which means the valley's got something to rally around besides water fights and potato prices for the next few months. Early returns look solid across the board, the kind of starts that keep folks talking at
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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