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Ty's Take Fire season's already knocking on the door up here, and nine acres burning on the Rio Grande National Forest near Del Norte is the kind of wake-up call we don't need in late spring. Schrader Creek's still fresh enough
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Ty's Take Anybody who's spent time around the high country knows that fences and wildlife don't always play nice together, and the results from that study on the La Sierra property are going to matter for what comes next in that boundary dispute. Meanwhile,
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Ty's Take The primary numbers came in Tuesday night, and if you've been watching the turnout patterns in Conejos County over the last few cycles, there's not much here to surprise you. We've got our candidates sorted for November, the usual names
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Ty's Take A high-speed chase ending in a SWAT arrest down in Alamosa, a yearling bear prowling Creede looking for water, voluntary closures on stretches of the Rio Grande. The pattern shows itself if you've lived here long enough: when the mountains don't
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Ty's Take Fire season's been quiet so far, but nine acres burned on the Rio Grande National Forest near Del Norte is a reminder we're never more than a dry spell and a spark away from trouble in these high country watersheds. What happens
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Ty's Take The fence that's been dividing La Sierra for two years finally has some science behind it. A wildlife study came back with results on that disputed boundary line, and now the people caught in the middle of it have actual data instead of just
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Ty's Take Primary elections in a county this size tend to sort themselves out before the ballots even get printed, but the preliminary numbers from yesterday still matter because they're a referendum on who's paying attention and who isn't. Turnout in Conejos
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Ty's Take The chase that ended with a SWAT team arrest up in Alamosa is a reminder that trouble doesn't respect county lines, and neither do the people running from it. Meanwhile, down here we're dealing with the real pressure that's been
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Ty's Take Fire season's never really left the San Luis Valley—it just gets quieter in the shoulder months before flaring back up. The Schrader Creek burn near Del Norte is still small at nine acres, which is the kind of number that means something got
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Ty's Take That fence running through La Sierra's been a sore point long enough that most folks around here have stopped asking which neighbor's side they're supposed to stand on, so maybe a wildlife study will settle what neighbors couldn't—
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Ty's Take Primary day in Conejos County always draws the same crowd—folks who've voted the same way since their grandfathers did, a handful of swing voters who actually read the mailers, and the poll workers who've been opening that same church basement since
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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—