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Ty's Take The county's hint about ditching road maintenance comes at the worst possible moment, right when Highway 160 reconstruction is tying up the main artery through town and the Rio Blanco fire's still burning up there in the San Juans. Nobody expects government
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Ty's Take The Rio Blanco fire is moving the way August fires move around here, and that means the Lower Blanco drainage is waking up to the kind of morning nobody wants to see. Smoke like that brings the whole county into sharp focus real quick, because fire
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Ty's Take Echo Canyon's back open for boating, which means the reservoir's finally holding enough water to make that worthwhile again. That's the kind of thing people around here watch like a stock ticker, because everything flows downhill from there, literally and
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a small town stays glued together when money gets tight and nobody's got much to spare. The piece about generosity making something happen doesn't spell out what that something is, but that's
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Ty's Take The County Fair pictures tell you what matters most around here right now, and it's not complicated. People showing livestock they've raised, kids displaying projects they've worked on for months, neighbors seeing neighbors at picnic tables under the sun. That&
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Ty's Take Six months to figure out whether data centers belong in Archuleta County sounds reasonable until you realize what's really happening underneath. The town and county just pumped the brakes on server farms and crypto operations, which means somebody's been sniffing around about
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Ty's Take PAWSD's been working the drought problem hard these past weeks, hammering out the details on what violations look like and how they'll actually enforce them when the water gets tight enough that somebody's got to go without. That's
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Ty's Take The Rio Blanco Fire shutting down Echo Canyon Reservoir for boating while aircraft work overhead is a hard reminder of where we sit right now. Late summer in the San Juans means fire season is real, not theoretical, and the closure tells you CPW is taking
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Ty's Take A wedding, a duck race, a volunteer drive, and nearly seven hundred school folks gathering for professional development,that's the kind of week that reminds you why small towns work. These aren't the stories that make state news, but they're
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Ty's Take Three churches laying out their spiritual compass for the coming weeks, a pair of fires that stayed small before they could run, water getting too warm for the fish we depend on, and a town gearing up to throw itself a party. That's Archuleta
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Ty's Take The county fair opens today with the Rio Blanco Fire still pushing evacuation orders through the north end of the county, which tells you something about who we are. Most years you've got families cruising the midway without much on their minds beyond funnel