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Ty's Take The BLM's push to lease parcels for oil and gas drilling in this county isn't new—it's the rhythm of federal land management, the same dance we've done for decades. But it's hitting different now, because
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Ty's Take Two good people are walking out the schoolhouse door after 53 years of combined service, and that's the kind of story that catches up with a town like ours whether we're paying attention or not. O'Donnell and Jordan didn'
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Ty's Take The governor's drought emergency declaration landed the same week we're sliding into Stage 1 fire restrictions, which means the math everyone's been doing in their heads for months just became official—we're short on water, and it'
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Ty's Take Fire restrictions coming June 6th means the dry season is officially here, and if you've lived through the last few years in Archuleta County, you know what that calendar marker really means—the next four months will be a holding of breath. Stage 1
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Ty's Take Looks like somebody finally got around to updating the town's travel guide, which might sound like small potatoes until you remember that most visitors rolling into Pagosa are working off information that's five years old or older. The hot springs are still
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in a town where the genealogical society draws enough interest to fill a meeting and the arts festival comes back for a fifth consecutive year—both say the same thing about a place that's figured out how to
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Ty's Take The Center for the Arts bringing back "Come From Away" this week is exactly the kind of thing that keeps a mountain town from turning into a postcard. Theater doesn't pay the bills around here—nobody's pretending it does—but
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Ty's Take Stage 1 fire restrictions are up, the water conservancy is still working through the Rio Blanco dispute, and folks down in Arboles are worried about drilling—which means the usual spring conversation is happening all over again, the one where we talk about who gets what
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Ty's Take Unemployment down to 2.8 percent, Pirates picking up all-state honors, and the school district moving forward with a new language arts curriculum—on the surface it reads like a town humming along fine. But underneath, the real story is the one you see in
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Ty's Take Highway 160 tearing up downtown this week means you'll either find an alternate route or you'll sit in it—and honestly, either way it's probably worth the aggravation if it gets us a road that won't need this
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Ty's Take The history museum's opening this week reminds us what we're actually trying to hold onto around here, and it's not the hot springs or the ski reports—those take care of themselves. It's the stories of who lived
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by what it does with its kids in June—whether it's pushing them toward a book or a stage or a piano bench. Pagosa's doing all three, which says something decent about a place