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Ty's Take When a high-speed chase ends with the sheriff's people having to call in SWAT, and bears are hungry enough to wander down into Creede looking for trouble, and the state's telling anglers to back off two stretches of the Rio Grande—well,
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande National Forest and the county are finally getting serious about what happens on their land come winter, which around here means snowmobiles, cross-country skiers, and folks who've been doing both since before anybody called it "recreation planning." The workshop
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Ty's Take Primary numbers are in across the valley, and the usual suspects are running strong—but the real story is how quiet the turnout stayed even with the term limits question sitting right there on the ballot. Commissioners are doing what they always do when the hard
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Ty's Take Slow week in print, but the kind that reminds you why small towns matter—a missing hiker walks out alive after two days in country that doesn't forgive mistakes, the Valley Courier rolls up its sleeves to come back better, and David Tandberg keeps
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Ty's Take Primary numbers are in across the valley, and what jumps out isn't who won—it's how many folks didn't show up to the ballot box. We talk a lot around here about having a say in how things run, about
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Ty's Take Politics moves slow in these mountains, which is probably why nobody's in any hurry to settle the term-limits question—Conejos County commissioners are kicking it to the voters and calling it democracy, which it is, though it also sounds like a way to buy
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Ty's Take Primary season down here always feels like watching your neighbors decide who gets to carry their mail to the courthouse—half the valley shows up, half stays home, and everybody's got an opinion about it anyway. The returns from both counties are still preliminary,
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Ty's Take Stage One fire ban over in Alamosa County means the dry wind is already talking, and it's only April. Up here in Conejos we're not quite there yet, but anybody who's watched a spring blow through the valley knows how
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Ty's Take The commissioners meeting Monday on DA term limits won't make headlines much beyond county lines, but it's the kind of thing that matters more the smaller your town gets—when everybody knows the prosecutor, when you've seen the same faces
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Ty's Take Nobody wants to read about a child abuse case on a Tuesday morning, but this is Conejos County, and we don't look away from what happens in our own backyard. Mari Felix's guilty plea is the kind of hard local news that
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Ty's Take A couple hundred miles of high valley gets easier to understand from thirty thousand feet, which is what Ecoflight and the San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council figured out for Public Lands Day last week—you can talk all you want about watershed and sagebrush health and
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Ty's Take Fire season's here whether we're ready or not, and most of the valley's under restrictions now—which means anybody thinking about burning slash piles or clearing land needs to check before they strike a match, because one dry spark in