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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how this valley keeps showing up for itself on a Wednesday. Ecoflight's taking people up to see what their public lands actually look like from ten thousand feet—that's the kind of clarity we need
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Ty's Take Drought's got a way of forcing choices nobody wants to make, and Alamosa just made one—no fireworks over the valley this July Fourth. It's the kind of decision that hits different in a place where water's always been the
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Ty's Take The art crowd that's been drifting into Alamosa over the past decade isn't here by accident—there's something about a high valley town with cheap rent, good light, and a college that doesn't ask too many questions that
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Ty's Take Sherry Perdue's been around long enough to know that county commissioner isn't a job you take to make friends—it's one you take because somebody's got to make the hard calls about water, roads, and land use in
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a class walk across the stage in May that reminds you why these small towns hold together at all—those kids are the ones who'll decide whether Alamosa stays rooted or empties out like so many valley towns
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Ty's Take The Great Sand Dunes pulled in record crowds these past four months, which means the valley's biggest draw is doing what it was meant to do—bringing people out here to see what we live with every day. But those visitors rolling through on
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Ty's Take You notice how the valley keeps trying to take care of itself in small, steady ways—the city installing traffic cameras to make streets safer, schools and nonprofits doubling down on mental health because they see what's happening to their kids, the communities still
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Ty's Take There's something about a fifty-year reunion that stops you cold—you're looking at a class photo from when the valley still felt like it belonged entirely to itself, before the interstates really changed things, before water got scarcer and the arguments louder.
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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