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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—
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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
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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