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Ty's Take When the heat index climbs like it does in July down here at elevation, we tend to think about tourists overheating on the trails or folks forgetting water on the golf course. But the piece on Alzheimer's and extreme temps reminds us that some
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Ty's Take Summer in Pagosa is doing what it does best—giving people reasons to stick around and remember why they're here. The library's back in full swing, Thingamajig's got the stage warm, the history museum's reminding us what 250
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Ty's Take You can read through the budget meetings and the power outage plans and the workforce housing vote and see the bones of a town trying to hold itself together while the heat turns up. Council greenlit property purchases for workforce housing the same week the county
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Ty's Take The deadline for that state electrification rebate program got moved up to August 1st, which means if you've been thinking about swapping out that old propane heater or electric range, you're running short on time to get your application in the door.
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Ty's Take There's a lot of bureaucratic machinery humming along this week—comprehensive plans, septic rules, grant applications, rebate deadlines sliding up to August first—and it's easy to dismiss it all as the usual county business that happens whether anybody's paying
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Ty's Take Highway 160 torn up again, water running short, and half the county wondering if we're going to price ourselves out of existence before the next big fire season hits—but here we are anyway, still showing up to tell our stories at the history
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Ty's Take The fire season's here again, and you can feel it in the air—not just the smoke, though God knows that's coming. It's the weight of it, the way every dry week in June feels like a countdown, the way
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Ty's Take The library's been open a few weeks now, and already you can see it's become more than a building—it's become a reason for people to show up somewhere that isn't their house or their job. That matters
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Ty's Take Summer's finally hitting its stride in Pagosa, and if you've been rationing your reasons to get out of the house, the next week or so is going to settle that. The 19th Hole wraps up its season with a concert on the
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Ty's Take The Red Ryder Rodeo coming up over the Fourth makes you remember what this town was before the hot springs became a destination and everybody's second address. You'll see working stock contractors and families who've been doing this for generations,
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Ty's Take Day Lumber hitting a hundred years out here is the kind of thing that stops you cold if you've been paying attention to what's happened to timber towns across the West. This outfit has weathered the spotted owl wars, the downturn, the
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Ty's Take We're staring down November with a ballot full of hard choices, and the one that ought to keep county commissioners up at night is Initiative 175. Diverting state road funds sounds like a local fix until you remember that every dollar Colorado sends our