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Ty's Take The garden series from Healthy Archuleta and word about robot-assisted surgery at the medical center aren't the flashy headlines that grab folks at the coffee counter, but they're the ones worth paying attention to around here. A community that invests in
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Ty's Take Religious communities around here have always been more than Sunday morning affairs, and this week shows why that matters. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship is putting their Sunday service toward civic engagement, while SpiritFire is ramping up programming at the Inspirational Living Center, and you see in
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of week in a small town where you can feel the summer starting to let go. The Thingamajig wraps up its season, the library adds a new digital service, a sculpture garden fills with music and history, and somewhere out
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Ty's Take The water fights never really end around here, they just cycle through different courtrooms and different names. This week we're watching Colorado get defiant with the feds over the Colorado River while our own county sits down to hash out what housing looks like
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Ty's Take The commissioners are asking voters to dig deeper into their pockets for the lodging tax, and you can read that move a couple of ways depending on which side of the second-home divide you're standing on. Those pushing it will tell you the
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Ty's Take You get the sense this time of year that Pagosa's holding its breath. The highway work drags on, water concerns keep surfacing at the planning board, and now the state's bumping minimum wage again, which hits small employers hard in a town
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Ty's Take Fire recovery information is available now for anybody still sorting through what comes next, which if you've been through one of these you know matters more than the initial flames ever did. The Gateway Project film premiering tomorrow at Liberty Theatre is worth your
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Ty's Take The town's got a lot on its mind these days, and you can see it in the mix of what people are actually talking about. There's the stuff that matters in hard practical ways, like whether the sewer system needs work or
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a town decides to feed itself. Healthy Archuleta's push into gardening education isn't just about vegetables or September workshops, though Lord knows we could use more folks growing their own in country this high
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Ty's Take You can usually tell when the mountains are running lean. This summer's drought has pushed the bears down hard, breaking into garages and tearing into anything that smells like a meal, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife is doing what they always do when hunger
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Ty's Take Rio Blanco Fire nearing full containment is the kind of news that lets you breathe easier around here, at least for now. The fire season never really ends in this country, not anymore, and every acre that stops burning is one less threat to the timber
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Ty's Take Road work on 160 never seems to end around here, and this time the county's signaling it might chase federal money to help patch things together. Meanwhile, the state's rolling out a water contribution program, which ought to get everyone's