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Ty's Take Mother's Day falls different out here than it does in places where you can order flowers and have them waiting on a doorstep by noon. Up in Archuleta County, a lot of the women we're thinking about this Sunday are the ones
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Ty's Take There's something worth sitting with in today's news, the kind of thing that doesn't make the front page but maybe should. We've got our library doing good work expanding what kids can do and learn, a blood drive
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Ty's Take One of our own is headed into the national spotlight with the Entrepreneur of Impact Competition, and that's worth noting in a town that's spent the last decade figuring out what comes after the boom-and-bust cycles of tourism and timber. When a
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Ty's Take You can read a lot into the infrastructure moves stacking up this month—the highway reconstruction on 160, the town taking on sewer line replacements, EMS officially essential, Aspen House finally breaking ground after eleven years. These aren't glamorous stories, but they're
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Ty's Take Lot of moving parts this week—the county's hammering out its comprehensive plan while the state's throwing money at opioids and disaster recovery, the Forest Service is running saws in the ranger district, and U.S. 160 is still a work in
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Ty's Take There's a federal trap door opening under Colorado, and it's worth understanding before someone in Washington pulls the lever. The feds are dangling wildfire funding in one hand while making demands about immigration enforcement and diversity programs in the other—the kind
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Ty's Take Highway 160 through town is about to get ugly for a while, which means the next few months are going to sort out who's patient and who isn't—and maybe tell us something about what we've become. Construction that tears
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Ty's Take Genealogy's having a moment everywhere, but it hits different in a place like Pagosa where half the families have roots going back five generations and the other half arrived last Tuesday looking for a second home. The Pagosa Peak Genealogical Society's May
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Ty's Take There's something about a Thursday in late April when the town starts moving again, and you see it all at once—the dance academy kids limbering up for their Broadway show, runners signing up for the Supermom 5K, folks actually showing up to free
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Ty's Take The small business conference heading down to Ignacio next Wednesday might be the most practical thing on this week's agenda—eight opinion pieces about government overreach won't pay the light bill, but a roomful of local owners swapping what's actually
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Ty's Take The fire readiness meetings and the power shutoff policy discussions—they're the same conversation wearing different hats. We've got agencies showing up to talk about what's coming this summer, and LPEA explaining why they might cut power to prevent ignitions,
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Ty's Take Nobody's paying attention to the unemployment number because it's good—4.2 percent is solid work in a seasonal economy that lives and dies on winter snow and summer visitors—but what matters is what comes next. The Gateway River Project limping