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Ty's Take The fence that's been dividing neighbors and wildlife biologists up in La Sierra for the better part of a year finally has some science behind it, and that's both good news and the kind of news that doesn't settle much
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Ty's Take Primary day came and went quiet down here in Conejos County, the way it usually does when the real fight hasn't started yet. These preliminary numbers out this morning won't mean much come November, but they do tell you something about who
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Ty's Take When a high-speed chase winds up in your county and ends with the tactical team rolling out, it's worth asking what was driving it. The Alamosa man who got arrested Saturday gave folks plenty of reason to pay attention, and the Conejos County
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Ty's Take Fire season's arriving early in the high country again, and the Schrader Creek burn near Del Norte is a reminder that these late springs don't mean we're out of the woods. Nine acres doesn't sound like much until
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Ty's Take The Rio Grande National Forest is coming to Del Norte next month to talk winter recreation, which means somebody up the valley chain finally figured out that what happens on that high ground affects water, access, and how the rest of us use the land come
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Ty's Take Primary elections come and go in counties like ours, and most folks don't think much about the preliminary results until the general rolls around in the fall. But these numbers matter now because they tell us who's got momentum heading into the
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Ty's Take Rough week down the valley if you're keeping score. A high-speed chase that ended with law enforcement making an arrest in the county, a hungry yearling bear pushing into Creede because the drought's squeezing everything out of the high country, and
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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