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Ty's Take Two folks walked away from a plane down in South Fork this week with nothing worse than scrapes—the kind of luck that doesn't come around often enough in small mountain valleys where weather turns on a dime and help is always twenty minutes
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Ty's Take Nobody in this county wakes up wanting to read about a child abuse case, but here we are—Mari Felix pleading guilty to two counts is the kind of local news that sits heavy in a small place where everybody knows everybody. The court system did
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Ty's Take There's something about watching the Class of 2026 walk across that stage that reminds you why towns like this hold on, even when the economics are mean and the young people are scarce. These kids grew up in a place where water rights matter
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Ty's Take Three nights of good music rolling through the valley—Walt Wilkins down in Antonito, then Kelloff's road show up in Alamosa, then whatever's coming next at Society Hall—says something about where we are right now. In a county where the land
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Ty's Take A plane down east of South Fork, a local band coming home to Society Hall, and a couple of reminders that this valley's kids are dealing with things that don't show up on a weather report—that's the news moving
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Ty's Take Antonito's gotten serious about enforcement on both fronts this week—red-light cameras going in around town, and over in the county a traffic stop turned up enough meth and distribution weight to make the state police take notice. It's the kind of
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Ty's Take There's something about a Friday night at Society Hall that still draws people together the way it always has—live music, neighbors you see at the co-op or the post office suddenly lit up in a different way, the kind of evening that reminds
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Ty's Take There's something about watching a class walk across that stage at Conejos High that reminds you the valley still holds its own—kids who grew up in these towns, who know the land and the language and the history that sits underneath it all,
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Ty's Take Election season's already heating up in the valley, which means the road shows are rolling in and the usual promises are getting dusted off for another round. Alex Kelloff's bringing his By The People Tour through Alamosa, and fair enough—that'
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Ty's Take The Stillhouse Junkies coming back to Society Hall is the kind of thing that reminds you why small towns survive—somebody's got to keep the doors open and the music coming, and when a local band figures that out, everybody benefits. But what caught
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Ty's Take There's a conversation happening in Antonito this week that cuts right to what small towns struggle with—how to keep people safe without turning every intersection into a checkpoint. The photo enforcement cameras are coming, and whether you think that's smart policing
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Ty's Take The search for Maria Gutierrez ended the way most of them do down here—someone spotted her car off a back road, or a neighbor checked a place everybody should have checked first, or she turned up at a cousin's place in Chama and