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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town keeps its culture alive, and this week Pagosa's got three chances to see it happening. A kid named Travers Vasek is playing a senior recital—that's the moment when a young
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Ty's Take There's a particular kind of trust that gets broken when a cop's credibility starts cracking in a small town—not just between that officer and the public, but in the whole system people depend on when things go sideways. Cases getting dismissed
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions kick in Friday on the forest that surrounds us, which means the season of holding our breath officially begins again. Between the guardrail repairs the county's tackling, the wildfire prep pieces running in the Post, and all the talk about what another
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Ty's Take The wildfire code taking effect next month is the kind of thing that sounds like bureaucratic overhead until you're watching embers blow across your roof—and by then it's too late. Pagosa's been lucky compared to some of what we&
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Ty's Take The wolves are back in the San Juans, and the state's latest count confirms what most of us already know from the scat and the tracks and the occasional early-morning sighting—they're establishing themselves in our backcountry like they never left. That&
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Ty's Take There's something worth watching in how a small town fills its calendar when the snow's gone and the season shifts. A stress management piece for seniors, a summer reading push, a spiritual group meeting—none of it makes the state wire, but
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Ty's Take Road work on the pass is never great timing, but May's when it has to happen—weather window closes fast up there. What catches the eye this week, though, is how many of these stories circle back to the same thing: people in this
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Ty's Take The pattern's becoming hard to miss: fire code, hydrant pressure, reconstruction scrutiny, and now wildfire resilience standards all landing on the table at once. That's not coincidence in a town ringed by National Forest where the last big burn is still fresh
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Ty's Take The legislature packed up and headed home last week after one hundred twenty days of trying to square circles—water rights, data centers, the whole mess of what Colorado's supposed to become. Down here we've got our own version of that same
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Ty's Take You can read between the lines on a slow news day—the water conservancy talking grants and ranch management, the county patting itself on the back for a 3.2 percent unemployment rate, the school district bringing in a new middle principal. These are the stories
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Ty's Take Between the insurance stories, the housing law coverage, and those end-of-life education pieces, what's really surfacing this week is how many of us are trying to plan for something—whether that's keeping a roof over our heads when carriers bail, putting down
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Ty's Take Josh Sanchez coming in as the new principal at Pagosa High is the kind of institutional stability this town needs right now, especially with wildfire season bearing down and half the county's attention split between tourism dollars and survival logistics. A new leader at